ith me all night." We both undressed,
and jumped into bed together. I was frantic with pleasure as I cuddled
up to her plump warm body, and felt her from her neck to her knees;
rolled over her, and kissed her, till I settled down between her thighs;
and then Mary Davis and I fucked, and laid still, and then fucked again,
and so on, till I could do it no longer.

It was three in the morning. "Stop all night," said she, "I will give
you a nice breakfast in the morning." I would not, had a strong desire
to keep up appearances of propriety and happiness at home, if I had not
the reality; so with a sigh rose, and dressed, borrowed a shilling of
her, and went out into the street. Silent and dirty it was, and raining
hard as I walked home to my miserable bed.

At dusk next day with impatience I went off to Mary Davis', gave her
what I had promised, and money for that evening besides, and when I had
had her, we sat down and talked again.

She was a short woman about nineteen years old, plump without fat, but
as nicely covered as any woman I ever saw; had a big bum, large thighs,
plenty of room between them, and dark hair on her cunt which had
strongly developed lips, it was large outside in proportion to her size.
She had a soft, kind face, beautiful grey eyes, nearly black hair which
draped naturally, and was altogether as nice a little woman as one could
have wanted. I have wondered often how she could have settled down in
a neighbourhood of coster-mongers, and taken five shillings for her
person, when she might as well have been a two-sovereign woman, had she
tried elsewhere. I put her up to trying at a future day, but she never
would.

Her room was about twelve feet square. A large bed took up one third
of it, a table next the only window, two chairs (one easy), little
cupboards in the recesses by the fire-place, on which stood china and
glasses, a small wash-hand stand, a chest of drawers, with slop-pail,
coal-scuttle, and looking-glass completed the furniture. All was
scrupulously clean, the bed-linen white.

Having broken my virtuous resolution, I never regained it, and for a
week fucked Mary from six in the evening till two the next morning. My
week's amusement cost me about two pounds, but then that modest sum
was too much for my pocket, so I left off for a while, and gave Mary a
chance of keeping her other friends. They were mostly poor clerks, she
told me, and married men better off, who gave her a pound, or at