much disposed to punish me by not allowing him to enter.

The joys of the previous evening were repeated. He in his turn
penetrated into my interior, and revelled in the same lascivious
enjoyment. After we had each thus allayed our fires a little by a
copious discharge, we proceeded to a minute examination of our
respective persons, while I was highly delighted with the unrestrained
exhibition of such charms as have seldom fallen under my notice.

I found that he was no less struck and pleased with what I in return
placed at his disposal. Anything of the kind he had previously seen had
been of boys of his own age, and this merely by stealth when he had no
opportunity of making minute observations. My somewhat more mature
proportions, occasioned by the difference of a few years in our ages,
were therefore fully appreciated and drew from him the warmest
encomiums and the most luxurious caresses.

While Frank and I were thus agreeably occupied in a minute
investigation of each other's charms, I reverted to what had fallen
from him the previous evening, and asked if he really meant to say that
his sister was in the habit of visiting him after he had gone to bed.

"Not now," he replied, "I only wish she did, and I would soon repay her
the lessons she used to give me. Do you know it was she who first
taught me how to do anything in this way?"

I expressed my surprise and curiosity to know what had occurred between
them, and he at once proceeded to enlighten me, saying that from the
kindness I had shown him he was sure he need have no reserve with me.

"It was," he said, "about eighteen months ago, when she had returned
from school, that our first amusement began. We then slept in the same
rooms we now occupy, and as some of my younger brothers were in the
room where you are, I used often to lock the door at night to prevent
them from coming in and tormenting me. Laura used generally to come to
bed before her aunt. She somehow ascertained that I shut myself up in
my room and probably imagined that I was better informed on certain
subjects than I really was.

"One evening on which there were some old people at dinner who were
likely to occupy our aunt's attention and keep her up late, Laura said
to me that she was tired of the party in the drawing room, but that she
was not inclined to sleep, and that if I left the door open between our
rooms she would come and sit with me for a while. I sat up for some
time, expecting t