ulsive grasp of it, drew from him such a plenteous bedewal, as
pointed to my own effusion, perfectly floated those parts, and drowned
in a deluge all my raging conflagration of desire.

When this was over, how to make my retreat was my concern; for, though
I had been so extremely pleased with the difficult between this warm
broadside, poured so briskly into me, and the tiresome pawing and toying
to which I had owed the unappeased flames that had driven me into this
step, now I was cooler, I began to apprehend the danger of contracting
an acquaintance with this, however agreeable stranger; who, on his side,
spoke of passing the evening with me and continuing our intimacy, with
an air of determination that made me afraid of its being not so easy
to get away from him as I could wish. In the mean time I carefully
concealed my uneasiness, and readily pretended to consent to stay with
him, telling him I should only step to my lodgings to leave a necessary
direction, and then instantly return. This he very glibly swallowed, on
the notion of my being one of those unhappy street-errants, who devote
themselves to the pleasure of the first ruffian that will stoop to pick
them up, and of course, that I would scarce bilk myself of the hire,
by not returning make the most of the job. Thus he parted with me, not
before, however, he had ordered in my hearing a supper, which I had the
barbarity to disappoint him of my company too.

But when I got home, and told Mrs. Cole my adventure, she represented
so strongly to me the nature and dangerous consequences of my folly,
particularly the risks to my health, in being so openlegged and free,
that I not only took resolutions never to venture so rashly again,
which I inviolably preserved, but passed a good many days in continual
uneasiness, lest I should have met with other reasons, besides the
pleasure of that rencounter, to remember it; but these fears wronged my
pretty sailor, for which I gladly make him this reparation.

I had now lived with Mr. Norbert near a quarter of a year, in which
space I circulated my time very pleasantly, between my amusements at
Mrs. Cole's, and a proper attendance on that gentleman, who paid me
profusely for the unlimited complaisance with which I passively humoured
every caprice of pleasure, and which had won upon him so greatly, that
finding, as he said, all that variety in me alone, which he had sought
for in a number of women, I had made him lose his taste