good opportunity of spermatizing a fresh cunt; yet
for some reason or another it must have been three days before I went to
try my luck again.

I had about this time of my life began to frame intentions, and
calculate my actions towards women; although still mostly ruled by
impulse and opportunity in love matters. My philosophy was owing to
experience, and also in a degree to my friend the Major, to whom some
years before I had confided my having commissioned a French woman to get
me a virgin. He was older, poorer, and more dissolute than ever, "He is
the baudiest old rascal that ever I heard tell a story," was the remark
of a man at our Club one night. Ask him to dinner in a quiet way by
himself, give him unlimited wine, and he would in an hour or two begin
his confidential advice in the amatory line, and in a wonderful manner
tell of his own adventures, and give reasons why he did this or that,
why he succeeded with this woman, or missed that girl, in a way as
amusing, and instructive to a young listener, as could be imagined.

"If you want to get over a girl," he would say, "never flurry her till
her belly's full of meat and wine; let the grub work. As long as she is
worth fucking, it's sure to make a woman randy at some time. If she is
not twenty-five she'll be randy directly her belly is filled,--then go
at her. If she's thirty, give her half-an-hour. If she's thirty-five let
her digest an hour, she won't feel the warmth of the dinner in her cunt
till then. Then she'll want to piss, and directly after that she'll
be ready for you without her knowing it. But don't flurry your young
un,--talk a little quiet smut whilst feeding, just to make her laugh
and think of baudy things; then when she has left table, get at her. But
it's well," the old Major would say, "to leave a woman alone in a room
for a few minutes after she has dined, perhaps then she will let slip a
fart or two, perhaps she'll piss,--she'll be all the better for the wind
and water being out. A woman's cunt doesn't get piss-proud like a man's
prick you know, they're differently made from us my boy,--but show any
one of them your prick as soon as you can, it's a great persuader. Once
they have seen it they can't forget it, it will keep in their minds.
And a baudy book, they won't ever look at till you've fucked them!--oh!
won't they!--they would at church if you left them alone with it." And
so the Major instructed us.

About three days afterwards, taki