s time, I was the possessor of both and many and many an
orgy we three had together, without the shadow of jealousy on any side.
It will be seen that Mrs. Egerton, in her reply, even looks forward to
the delicious indulgence, which in the end was happily effected and
long continued. The following is her reply--

THE HON. MRS. EGERTON TO MRS. BENSON.

How can I ever sufficiently thank my darling Lizzie for her delicious
letter, I have devoured its delightful details a dozen times already. I
keep it in my bosom, and renew the pleasure of its perusal at every
spare moment. _Too long?_ Oh! with such a charming power of
description, why did you not cover fifty more pages. Never in my life
have I enjoyed such an exquisite description of those dear lascivious
encounters. How delighted I am at your good fortune in meeting with
such a miracle of a boy as that dear Charlie Roberts. Why, he has every
quality of a man, united to the charm of extreme youth. What a splendid
man he will become, the very perfection of a lover, and already
possessing so lewd and lascivious a lubricity. Oh! how I envy you his
possession. What luck for him too, to have fallen into the hands of so
delicious a teacher as my beloved Lizzie is. Am I not myself her pupil,
and were you not my own delicious instructress in all that one of our
sex could teach each the other.

You will remember a long-standing engagement entered into, between us
made, when we were both so lewd and so longing for the real knowledge
of man, and how we pledged ourselves that if either got possession of a
lover, we should manage after a while to share him between us. Your
description of Charlie Roberts has brought this pledge most vividly to
my recollection. I am sure my dear Lizzie will not be angry or jealous
when I avow that I long to participate with her in the possession of
that darling boy; and if my Lizzie is as of old, I feel certain she
will rather indulge and cultivate this propensity than otherwise. Think
how easy it will be for us both to arrange the meeting of all three
together, because I wish to possess him in common, certain that it will
increase the lascivious pleasure of coition. No one will suspect us
when we drive out, two women with one man. It will naturally be
supposed that one fears the other, and so there will be no danger. See,
here I am at once anticipating future scenes, but it is all owing to
the extremely exciting and lascivious details you have