bidding me take care of myself,
and recommending me to my repose, left me much at ease and relieved by
his absence.

In the close of the evening, I took care to have prepared for me a
warm bath of aromatik and sweet herbs; in which having fully laved and
solaced myself, I came out voluptuously refreshed in body and spirit.

The next morning waking pretty early, after a night's perfect rest and
composure, it was not without some dread and uneasiness that I thought
of what innovation that tender soft system of mine might have sustained,
from the shock of a machine so sized for its destruction.

Struck with this apprehension, I scarce dared to carry my hand thither,
to inform myself of the state and posture of things.

But I was soon agreeably cured of my fears.

The silky hair that covered round the borders, now smoothed and
re-pruned, had resumed its wonted curl and trimness; the fleshy pouting
lips that had stood the brunt of the engagement, were no longer swollen
or moisture-drenched; and neither they, nor the passage into which they
opened, that had suffered so great a dilation, betrayed any the least
alteration, outwardly or inwardly, to the most curious research,
notwithstanding the laxity that naturally follows the warm bath.

This continuation of that grateful stricture which is in us, to the men,
the very jet of their pleasure, I owed, it seems, to a happy habit of
body, juicy, plump and furnished, towards the texture of those parts,
with a fullness of soft springy flesh, that yielding sufficiently, as it
does, to almost any distension soon recovers itself so as to re-tighten
that strict compression of its mantlings and folds, which form the sides
of the passage, wherewith it so tenderly embraces and closely clips any
foreign body introduced into it, such as my exploring finger then was.

Finding then every thing in due tone and order, I remember my fears,
only to make a jest of them to myself. And now, palpably mistress of
any size of man, and triumphing in my double achievement of pleasure and
revenge, I abandoned myself entirely to the ideas of all the delight I
had swam in. I lay stretching out, glowingly alive all over, and tossing
with burning impatience for the renewal of joys that had sinned but in
a sweet excess; nor did I lose my longing, for about ten in the morning,
according to expectation, Will, my new humble sweetheart, came with a
message from his master, Mr. H...., to know how I did. I had