, my eyes, now charged
brimful of the most intense desire, fired on my companion very
intelligible signal of distress: my companion, I say, who grew in them
every instant more amiable, and more necessary to my urgent wishes and
hopes of immediate ease.

Mr. Barville, no stranger, by experience, to these situations, soon knew
the pass I was brought to soon perceived my extreme disorder; in favour
of which, removing the table out of the way, he began a prelude that
flattered me with instant relief, to which I was not, however, so near
as I imagined: for as he was unbuttoned to me, and tried to provoke and
rouse to action his unactive torpid machine, he blushingly owned that no
good was to be expected from it, unless I took it in hand to re-excite
its languid loitering powers, by just refreshing the smart of the yet
recent blood-raw cuts, seeing it could, no more than a boy's top, keep
up without lashing. Sensible then that I should work as much for my own
profit as his, I hurried my compliance with his desire, and abridging
the ceremonial, whilst he leaned his head against the back of a chair, I
had scarce gently made him feel the lash, before I saw the object of my
wishes give signs of life, and presently, as it were with a magic touch,
is started up into a noble size and distinction indeed. Hastening then
to give me the benefit of it, he threw me down on the bench; but such
was the refreshed soreness of those parts behind, on my leaning so hard
on them, as became me to compass the admission of that stupendous head
of his machine, that I could not possibly bear it. I got up then, and
tried, by leaning forwards, and turning the crupper on my assailant, to
let him at the back avenue: but here it was likewise impossible to stand
his bearing so fiercely against me, in his agitations and endeavours to
enter that way, whilst his belly battered directly against the recent
sore. What should we do now? both intolerably heated: both in a fury;
but pleasure is ever inventive for its own ends: he strips me in a trice
stark naked, and placing a broad settee-cushion on the carpet before the
fire, oversets me gently, topsy turvy, on it; and handling me only
at the waist, whilst you may be sure I favoured all my dispositions,
brought my legs round his neck; so that my head was kept from the floor
only by my hands and the velvet cushion, which was now bespread with
my flowing hair: thus I stood on my head and hands, supported by him in
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