ures, for I found that Jenny who had been
most inquisitive about other women, and delighted to hear about how they
talked, and walked, and pissed, and fucked; was annoyed when I talked of
her sister's nakedness. I ought not to have looked,--why I had seen more
than she, her own sister,--a poor woman, and married, and she to have
her thing looked at by a strange man,--her husband could not have seen
more,--and so on. So though I described her sister's charms I took care
not to express any admiration of them, nor to say I had frigged myself,
and felt desire for her. Jenny had not noticed that my trowsers were
undone, and sperm-soiled. I had not noticed that myself till I got out
of the house on that eventful afternoon.

On the Monday when I saw Jenny, she declared that another hour's anxiety
would have killed her. We found that the time from the minute the sister
came into the bed-room, to the time she went downstairs was two hours.
Jenny thought that she must have been half-an-hour working at her dress.
Jenny had walked round the room trying if she could see me, or if I was
looking, but could only do so once or twice at the holes, or fancy she
did; but the long tear in the valance through which I could see with
both eyes at once, and just above which her sister had put up her legs,
she had never noticed; nor did she believe me when I said that I could
see the cunt when her sister's backside was towards me, when near the
window. So I made her lie down, and look from the floor whilst I stood
naked, pretending to cut my corns. Then she said it was a shame of me to
be peeping. She had a clear inspection from my bum-hole to my ballocks,
and knew I had seen the cunt.

She did not contend any longer. "Do you mean to say, that if you had
been under the bed, and had known a naked man was cutting his corns, you
would not have peeped out?" No she would not; but had it been a naked
woman perhaps she would, Jenny replied. So after she had heard from me
how much I had seen of her sister's body, between her back-bone and her
navel, and I had told her something which made her say, "Law has she!"
though I can't recollect what it was, the subject dropped. Then I learnt
from her more about her sister's wages, mode of life, and where she
worked; for although the thing seemed ridiculous, I had a letch, and
meant to try to put into that young woman if possible, though I had not
then stroked Jenny many weeks. I liked variety.

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