ctions on account of my youth, but the very first moment
she could say a word to me in private it was to tell me what delight it
had given her that her husband should have fulfilled in the matter the
very wish nearest and dearest to her heart.

The ceremony eventually came off as had been proposed, but it was at
very rare intervals that I could find an opportunity of renewing our
old combats in the field of Venus. Meanwhile I had no reason to regret
this as far as indulgence of my erotic passions went, because, for
nearly two years, that is until I had passed my eighteenth birthday, I
continued to enjoy uninterrupted bliss in the arms of the luxurious and
fascinating Miss Frankland, or in orgies with her and my sisters, which
culminated in every excess of venery capable of being enjoyed by three
women and one youth. In fact, we all indulged rather too freely, if I
may judge from the fact that, at least to Miss Frankland and myself,
the rod had almost become a necessity, and occasionally even my sisters
admitted it gave them a fillip. Under the able tutorship of Miss
Frank-land we became the most perfect adepts in every voluptuous
indulgence of lubricity. But I must also give her the credit of never
neglecting our education. Indeed, I may say it gained by the intimate
union of our bodies. For that estimable woman impressed upon us that to
keep her friendship and confidence we must do justice to her teaching.
I have already said her system of instruction was very superior to
anything we had previously known, and now that she had won our
unbounded love and affection, there was nothing we were not ready to do
in school to second her efforts for our mutual improvement. She had
very superior attainments-spoke French and German like a native, had
sufficient knowledge of Latin and Greek to ground me well in them, and
her knowledge of music was very superior. I have hardly ever heard
anyone with a more charming touch on the piano. In the two years that
followed our first orgie we made really astonishing progress. We all
spoke French very fairly, had a pretty good knowledge of German,
especially Mary, who really spoke it well; as for myself I was well up
in French, fairly so in German, and with a very good ground work of
Latin and Greek.

It was about this time that an event happened which completely changed
the order of my life. My mother had hinted that I had some expectations
from an uncle. These were very vague. He was my fa