of my machine, which I felt
throbbing and burning more fiercely than ever and giving me more
pleasure than I had ever previously experience, though in her crisis of
delight she had ceased to operate upon it. I now begged of her not to
stop, but to continue her employment which afforded me so much delight.
Suspecting what was indeed the case, that the sight of her charms and
of the enjoyment she had undergone had stirred me up to an unwonted
pitch of desire which might perhaps be attended with a happy result,
she good-naturedly resumed her efforts, and every succeeding movement
of her hand upon the throbbing and inflamed member evidently added
intensely to the flame that consumed me. She persevered until she had
produced the desired result, and I saw a drop or two of white liquid
burst from the inflamed point, while at the same time a most delicious
sensation pushed through the part affected and from thence seemed to
thrill through my whole frame, as overcome with the exquisite delight.
I fell back upon the bed, she kissing me tenderly and congratulating me
on having at length attained the powers of a man; then she left me to
my repose.

"After this we omitted no opportunity that was afforded us of amusing
ourselves together in the same way. My ignorance on the subject,
however, prevented me from thinking of carrying our enjoyment farther,
and though doubtless she knew better, she allowed me to return to
school without enlightening me any farther. She made me promise two
things, first that I was not to indulge myself in any repetition of our
pastimes until we met again, and secondly not to say anything to my
school-fellows regarding such subjects. I cannot say that I kept my
promise on either point. I tried as well as I could to do so with
regard to the first, but I could not help occasionally breaking
through. But my curiosity was too much excited by our late proceedings
not to endeavour to ascertain how some of my elder companions felt
regarding such subjects. On sounding them cautiously I discovered that
some of them were better informed on such affairs than I was, and from
their revelations I became aware of the amount of pleasure I had lost
through my want of knowledge to avail myself of it. It so happened that
during the following year whenever I was at home Laura was absent, and
when we did at length occasionally meet and I endeavoured to prevail on
her to afford me an opportunity of repeating our old amusements,