nsual passion, felt so manfully his
advantages and superiority, felt withal the sting of pleasure so
intolerable, that maddening with it, his joys began to assume a
character of furiousness, which made me tremble for the too tender
Louisa. He seemed, at this juncture, greater than himself; his
countenance, before so void of meaning, or expression, now grew big with
the importance of the act he was upon. In short, it was not now that he
was to be played the fool with. But, what is pleasant enough, I myself
was awed into a sort of respect for him, by the comely terrors his
motions dressed him in: his eyes shooting sparks of fire; his face
glowing with ardours that gave another life to it; his teeth churning;
his whole frame agitated with a raging ungovernable impetuosity: all
sensibly betraying the formidable fierceness with which the genial
instinct acted upon him. Butting then and goring all before him, and mad
and wild like an ower-driven steer, he ploughs up the tender furrow all
insensible to Louisa's complaints; nothing can stop, nothing can keep
out a fury like his: with which, having once got its head in, its blind
rage soon made way for the rest, piercing, rending, and breaking open
all obstruction. The torn, split, wounded girl cries, struggles, invokes
me to her rescue, and endeavours to get from under the young savage,
or shake him off, but alas! in vain: her breath, might as soon have
strength to have quelled his rough assault, or put him out of his
course. And indeed, all her efforts and struggles were managed with such
disorder, that they served rather to entangle, and fold her the faster
in the twine of his boisterous arms; so that she was tied to the stake,
and obliged to fight the match out, if she died for it. For his part,
instinct-ridden as he was, the expressions of his animal passion,
partaking something of ferocity, were rather worrying than kisses,
intermixed with ravenous love-bites on her cheeks and necks, the prints
of which did not wear out for some days after.

Poor Louisa, however, bore up at length better than could have been
expected: and though she suffered, and greatly too, yet, ever true to
the good old cause, she suffered with pleasure and enjoyed her pain. And
soon now, by dint of an enraged enforcement, the brute-machine, driven
like a whirlwind, made all smoke again, and wedging its way up, to the
utmost extremity, left her, in point of penetration, nothing to fear or
to desire: and