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
I, smiling in his face, took the letter, and immediately catching hold
of his shirt sleeve, drew him towards me, blushing, and almost
trembling; for surely his extreme bashfulness, and utter inexperience
called for, at least, all the advances to encourage him: his body was
now conveniently inclined toward me, and just softly chucking his
beardless chin, I asked him: “If he was afraid of a lady?...” and with
that took, and carrying his hands to my breasts, I press it tenderly to
them. They were now finely furnished, and raised in flesh, so that,
panting with desire, they rose and fell, in quick heaves, under his
touch: at this, the boy’s eyes began to lighten with all the fires of
inflamed nature, and his cheeks flushed with a deep scarlet:
tongue-tied with joy, rapture, and bashfulness, he could not speak, but
then his looks, his emotion, sufficiently satisfied me that my train
had taken, and that I had no disappointment to fear.
My lips, which I threw in his way, so that he could not escape kissing
them, fixed, fired, and emboldened him: and now, glancing my eyes
towards that part of his dress which covered the essential object of
enjoyment, I plainly discovered the swell and commotion there; and as I
was now too far advanced to stop in so fair a way, and was indeed no
longer able to contain myself, or wait the slower progress of his
maiden bash-fulness (for such it seemed, and really was), I stole my
hands upon his thighs, down one of which I could both see and feel a
stiff hard body, confined by his breeches, that my fingers could
discover no end to. Curious then, and eager to unfold so alarming a
mystery, playing, as it were, with his buttons, which were bursting
ripe from the active force within, those of his waistband and fore-flap
flew open at a touch, when out IT started; and now, disengaged from the
shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play thing of a
boy, not the weapon of a man, but a Maypole, of so enormous a standard,
that had proportions been observed, it must have belonged to a young
giant. Yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even venture to
feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory! perfectly well
turned and fashioned, the proud stiffness of which distented its skin,
whose smooth polish and velvet softness might vie with that of the most
delicate of our sex, and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set
off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root: through the jetty
springs of which the fair skin shewed as in a fine evening you may have
remarked the clear light through the branchwork of distant trees
over-topping the summit of a hill: then the broad of blueish-casted
incarnate of the head, and blue serpentines of its veins, altogether
composed the most striking assemblage of figure and colours in nature.
In short, it stood an object of terror and delight.
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