h the sight; and more
than once I kept her in that position, looking at the gruelly lips until
I fucked her a second time.

She had such a very remarkable steady walk that she scarcely seemed to
move, she glided; her feet were so nicely carried forward, and her body
so evenly balanced from her hips. In this respect she resembled a tall
dark woman named Fletcher, whom I knew quite recently. There must have
been something in the arrangement of their thighs and hips which caused
this. Women who are accustomed to carry heavy loads on their heads
always walk straight, and never roll from side to side as most people
more or less do; but I don't know that either of the women named had
carried baskets on their heads,--I knew the walk of that class of women,
having been born in the neighbourhood where they worked.

She I imagine had a liking for my doing it naked with her, for she
was always suggesting that we should strip; but she could not bear my
fucking her dog-fashion. When I stripped and got into her on her belly,
she would twist her legs right into mine in quite a snaky fashion,
and sometimes lift her legs up till her heels were almost up to my
blade-bones. She also like a few others I have poked seemed to have
the power of holding my prick in her cunt quite tightly after I had
spent,--perhaps because she had not spent herself, for about her
pleasures in the copulation I am not sure, though she always impressed
me as being a hot-cunted one.

After I had once been to J... s Street again I went more and more
frequently. Hannah was always nearly screwed,--champagne or brandy
pleased her best.

When she was so, she would at times gradually let out much that she
knew,--and this is what she let out one day.

"Bah! her husband indeed!--she is not married,--he's got a wife besides,
and Sarah knows it,--he's blackened his wife's eyes more than once when
she has been annoying them; but that don't pay, for she is his lawful
wife; so he allows her something, and it keeps her quiet, and she won't
last long, for she is drunk from daybreak till night. Sarah's a real
good one to keep the lazy beggar,--she keeps them all poor thing, ever
since he could not get any engagement; there's she, and their children,
and her sister, who lives with them, and then there is her old mother
who she keeps, and his wife as well,--she has enough to do poor thing."
This came out one day after Hannah had dined; I had brought her a bottle
of specially