igging myself, and spite of her pushed one hand up on to her thighs,
and frigged away with the other. "Take care of my dress", said she. The
savage delight of doing what she wished me not, came over me. Turning
my prick I shot my sperm copiously over her silk dress, and finished
by flinging from my fingers what remained of it towards her face.
"You damned dirty beast, you did it on purpose." "Serve you right, you
cheating whore", said I putting on my hat, and leaving her with a towel
wiping off my sperm, and cursing me as she did it. I don't know when I
felt so spiteful against a woman as I did against her. My discharge was
quick and copious, I saw it on her waist downwards. I have been bilked
before and since, but have mostly pardoned the woman, for sometimes I
have thought the poor things had their courses on, or some ailment or
deformity; but I still seem to hate this one.

I may add that at the time these doings took place there were but three
theatres in the Strand.

CHAPTER II.

Preliminary remarks.--A dress-lodger.--Lucy.--Sweet
seventeen.--An impudent demand.--A row.--The bawd.--My watch
requisitioned.--Exit barred.--Bill.--Funking.--
Determination.--The poker and window.--Vici.--Apologies.--A
cautious retreat.--My revenge.--Lucy scared away.--Brighton
Bessie.--Washing by fire-light.--Friendly intimacy.--The
house in B.w Street.--Lascivious evenings.

I have read through the two volumes in print. There are typographical
errors, the names of women and places are once or twice wrongly given
or spelt, but the context corrects that, and it matters not. What is
important is; that owing to the brevity with which some occurrences are
told, they almost seem improbable; this is the result of not printing my
narrative all through exactly as I wrote it. In the manuscript, items of
conversation, and numerous details of the behaviour of myself and female
partners in my amours, were written down just as they occurred, and
showed how the climax was reached; how little by little man and woman
inclined to each other, how one pressed, and the other yielded, how from
modest talk and chaste kisses our chastity gradually was lost, how by
touch and sighs and yielding to the swooning lust which coursed stronger
and stronger through our veins, our genitals inflamed, swollen, and
sweating, drove us to contact with each other, till the carnal coupling
ensued, and prick and cunt revelling and w