I lay then all tame and passive as she could wish, whilst her freedom raised no other emotions but those of a strange, and till then unfelt pleasure: every part of me was open, and exposed to the licentious courses of her hands, which like a lambent fire ran over my whole body, and thaw’d all coldness as they went. —— I told her, if she pleased, I would get up, and begin any work she would be pleased to set me about. I skip over here, an account of the natural grief and affliction, which I felt on this melancholy occasion. Phœbe Ayres, the name of my tutoress elect, to whose care and instructions I was affectionately recommended. Brown, who had already a chapman for me in the house, before whom my charms were to pass in review; for he had not only in course insisted on a previous sight of the premisses, but also on immediate surrender to him, in case of his agreeing for me; concluding very wisely that such a place as I
