So profound was my emotion upon hearing this wild and erotic tirade escape from the lips of the hitherto virtuous Bessy that for a moment or two I found myself pausing as one who seeks to collect his scattered senses. But my lovely lady was by no means in the mood for delay, and without giving me time for any further metaphysical reflections, she flung her white arms round my neck and falling backwards on the bed, threw open her legs, locked them behind my buttocks, and with a large and generous grasp of her hand upon my member drew me rapidly within the velvet folds I had so long and so vainly sought to enter.
In a moment the amorous widow, the fishmonger's luscious little daughter, and even the erotic prowess of the salacious Emma were alike forgotten in the long delayed consummation of our desires to which my love and I now eagerly bent ourselves. Again and again with undiminished rapture did I seal the bond of love. Again and again did the enchanted Bessy pull me down upon her naked body and, holding me as in a vice between her thighs, strain me to her swelling breast, and plunging her tongue far into my mouth imparted-as it were by the sheer magnetism of her own lust-a length and stiffness to my organ which repeated discharges seemed powerless to effect.
However, since all things must have an end, I at length whispered to Bessy that I had tousled her for the last time that night, and as we gazed upon each other with feelings of gratified delight we envied not the potentates of earth their riches or vain honours. Enthroned within each other's hearts, and crowned with the never-fading laurels of triumphant love, we could imagine no happiness superior to that we now enjoyed!
But, alas! how transient are the pleasures of this world. Suddenly my charmer's brow assumes an expression of uneasy sadness-the clock proclaims the hour of seven. Ah! I guess the cause-her husbandhateful theme-he'll soon be home! During the last few hours of ecstasy no thought of him had interfered; each had forgotten for a brief, though blissful period, that such an insipid, disagreeable d-d intruder lived to mar our mutual pleasures. But now the cursed recollection intrusive falls upon each heart, and like a ponderous weight beats down with fury irresistible the opening blossoms of ecstatic joy but newly rooted in our love-excited bosoms. And must I now resign to him those celestial charms in which so recently my soul has revelled?
She soon perceived my mental agony and guessing the cause, with angel kindness strove to sooth my troubled soul to rest, assuring me that although compelled perchance to share his bed, yet by feigned illness she would manage to evade his loathed caresses; which, as I afterwards discovered, was not a work of such great difficulty as I had at first imagined, for in the course of future confidential communications, my dear girl candidly acknowledged that the plenteous banquet I had shared with her on the first day of love's great festival would have sufficed the frugal dolt for a month at least.
As time and tide wait for no man, and Mr. E. was now momentarily expected, we thought it prudent for a time to part. I accordingly retired to my own apartment where I speedily concocted a plan by which to get rid of him for some few hours longer. Scarcely had he arrived, when opening my door I called to him by name; instantly answering, I begged he would walk in and take a seat; he did so; I then informed him that having an engagement to attend a concert on that evening, and feeling utterly incompetent to sing in public on this occasion (which, by the by, was really the case, although, as may be readily supposed, I did not think it at all requisite to explain to him the real cause, which I disguised under the convenient name of a severe cold), I requested that he would do me the favour of delivering a note to the musical director, which I would write, to inform him of my indisposition, and that in return for the kindness I solicited, I would ensure his admission to the performance, together with his wife. I then handed him a bill of the entertainments, which did in reality promise much amusement. He thankfully accepted my offer and went to consult his wife.
As I expected, he shortly returned to inform me that Mrs. E., feeling much fatigued after the labours of the day, was under the necessity of declining my kind offer, but added that if I would oblige him with an opportunity of obliging a friend, he should be most happy at any future time to return the favour. I accordingly wrote a few lines to the director, expressing regret that illness prevented me from fulfilling my professional duties and concluded with a request that he would admit the bearer and friend, which favour I was fully assured he would not refuse me.
E., having in a short time prepared himself, left home, congratulating himself on his anticipated amusement at so cheap a rate; and in less than five minutes his expecting wife was enclosed in my fond embrace.
Having assured her that we need not fear interruption for the next three hours, I with little difficulty prevailed on her to retire to rest, and without opposition I shortly followed; then, after some time passed in the most delightful converse, overcome with the sublimity of our happiness, we sank to sleep locked in each other's arms.
I awoke as the clock was striking twelve, when I arose, and having received a promise that no officious daring on the part of her husband should induce her to submit to his odious embrace-for that night at least-with a parting kiss I left her and repaired to my own apartment, there to seek in the downy arms of sleep that rest and refreshment I so greatly needed after the pleasing fatigues of that eventful day.
I have often heard an old adage, that "Joan is as good as my lady in the dark," which implies that all women resemble each other in a certain particular; but with all deference to more experienced practitioners, I must beg to differ with them in this instance; and, in defence of my opinion, I assure them that there was such a peculiar indescribable something about the person of my adored Bessy that I could have discovered her in the midst of a darkness thick as that which annoyed the Egyptians of yore and which sacred writers describe as a darkness that might be felt.
Nay, such was the influence of this magnetic charm upon my busy fancy that frequently during our long intimacy, when I have been toying with other women whose personal charms were infinitely superior to those of my soul's idol, I have felt no amatory longings; on the contrary, upon more than one occasion, when I have had a decided wish to impress some melting fair one with a magnificent idea of my prowess in the field of Venus, a most provoking coldness had pervaded my whole frame to such an extraordinary degree as to have created in me a temporary fear that I was on the point of becoming impotent; yet when, perhaps half an hour after I have beheld my Bessy, the slightest touch of her electric hand would kindle a raging fire within my veins, which by the sweetest of all operation she would ultimately contrive to quench. Then one gentle kiss would render all her former efforts unavailing — the dying embers gaining new vigour from her creative breath would instantly revive and again blaze forth with redoubled fury. But I digress.
The barrier once moved which had so long and stubbornly resisted my attempts to enter the flowery domains of the gentle goddess, I determined amply to repay myself for the time lost in the tedious pursuit.
I have before stated that Mr. E. left home each morning at six o'clock and, as his business lay some distance from his dwelling, took provisions with him for the day; consequently we feared no interruption on his part till between the hours of eight and nine at night; no sooner, therefore, did I hear his usual farewell each morning than rolling up my clothes into a convenient bundle I placed them beneath my arm; as the closing of the outer door proclaimed his glad departure I sought the room which he had quitted, where my expectant Bessy's open arms invited me to rapture; and upon her lovely breast I generally lay reclined till nine o'clock, when the industrious cry of the buxom milkmaid would call her from my arms; but she left me only for the purpose of preparing the welcome morning meal, which refreshing repast, rendered more delightful by cheerful and unrestrained converse of love and happiness, was no sooner over than having dressed,