th me a bottle of sherry. I recollect
the morning well. It was a sultry day, reeking with moisture; it had
been thundering, the clouds were dark and threatening, the air charged
with electricity. Such a day makes all creation randy, and you may
see every monkey at the Zoological Gardens frigging or fucking. I was
resolute with lustful heat, the girl was I expected under the same
influence, and taking her as I did after a lazy meal, everything was
propitious to me. "How shall I get in?--if I knock she may not open; and
if she sees me go up the front-garden she won't open." But I had to try,
so walked up to the door, and gave one single loud tradesman's knock.

There was a little porch and a shelter over the street-door. Standing
flat up against the door, so that I might be hidden from her sight if
peeping, I heard an upper window open. She looked out, but where I was
she could not see me. There was delay, so again I knocked, and soon the
door began to open, I pushed it and stepped in. The front-shutters on
the ground-floor to my wonder were closed.

"Hoh! sir--you," said Jenny amazed, "what do you want?" I pushed the
door to, and caught hold of her. "I've come to have a chat and a kiss."
She struggled, but I got her tight, and kissed as a randy man then
kisses a woman, it is a magnetizing thing. "Oh! there it is again,"
she cried as a loud thunder-clap was heard; "oh! let me go,--oh! it do
frighten me so."

"Where are you going?" "Oh I into the parlour,--I've closed the
shutters." The girl was in a panic, and did not know what she said. The
parlour-door was open, the room nearly dark, which suited me. She went
just in, and then turned round to go out, but I pulled her to the sofa.
A flash of lightning showed even in the darkened room, the girl cowered
and hid her face with her hands. I took her round the waist. "Shut your
eyes, and lean your head against me." Mechanically she did, she was
utterly unnerved. I felt down with my right hand the form of her thighs
and haunches through her clothes. My prick began to stand, pulling
it out, and taking her near hand I put it round my prick just as the
thunder roared. She kept her hand unconsciously on it for a time, then
with a start took it away and jumped up. "Oh! it's wicked," said she,
"when God Almighty is so angry,"--and just as she got to the door a
terrific flash made her turn round again. I caught her, and sitting
down on a chair pulled her on to my knee; she hid at on