Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)Cleland, John
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Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
Cleland, John
England -- Fiction; Erotic fiction; Prostitutes -- Fiction
The first that stood up, to open the ball, were a cornet of horse, and
that sweetest of olive-beauties, the soft and amorous Louisa. He led
her to the couch (nothing loth), on which he gave her the fall, and
extended her at length with an air of roughness and vigour, relishing
high of amorous eagerness and impatience. The girl, spreading herself
to the best advantage, with her head upon the pillow, was so
concentered in that she was about, that our presence was the least of
her care and concern. Her petticoats, thrown up with her shift,
discovered to the company the finest turned legs and thighs that could
be imagined, and in broad display, that gave us a full view of that
delicious cleft of flesh, into which the pleasing hair, grown mount
over it, parted and presented a most inviting entrance, between two
close hedges, delicately soft and pouting. Her gallant was now ready,
having disencumbered himself from his clothes, overloaded with lace,
and presently, his shirt removed, shewed us his forces at high plight,
bandied and ready for action. But giving us no time to consider the
dimensions, he threw himself instantly over his charming antagonist who
received him as he pushed at once dead at mark, like a heroine, without
flinching; for surely never was girl constitutionally truer to the
taste of joy, or sincerer in the expressions of its sensations, than
she was: we could observe pleasure lighten in her eyes, as he
introduced his plenipotentiary instrument into her; till, at length,
having indulged her to its utmost reach, its irritations grew so
violent, and gave her the spurs so furiously, that collected within
herself, and lost to every thing but the enjoyment of her favourite
feelings, she retarded his thrusts with a just concert of spring
heaves, keeping time so exactly with the most pathetic sighs, that one
might have numbered the strokes in agitation by their distinct murmurs,
whilst her active limbs kept wreathing and intertwisting with his, in
convulsive folds: then the turtle-billing kisses, and the poignant
painless lovebites, which they both exchanged, in a rage of delight,
all conspiring towards the melting period. It soon came on, when
Louisa, in the ravings of her pleasure-frensy, impotent of all
restraint, cried out: “Oh Sir!... Good Sir! pray do not spare me! ah!
ah!...” All her accents now faultering into heart-fetched sighs, she
closed her eyes in the sweet death, in the instant of which we could
easily see the signs in the quiet, dying, languid posture of her late
so furious driver, who was stopped of a sudden, breathing short,
panting, and, for that time, giving up the spirit of pleasure. As soon
as he was dismounted, Louisa sprung up, shook her petticoats, and
running up to me, gave me a kiss, and drew me to the side-board, to
which she was herself handed by her gallant, where they made me pledge
them in a glass of wine, and toast a droll health of Louisa’s proposal
in high frolic.
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