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 have a ride on his speckled horses. They had evidently felt great pleasure in being whirled about side by side, and more so, in feeling every now and then, their knees and legs meet and press against each other.

They had spent but a groat, and still, many an impotent millionnaire would, I dare say, have given them a half of his yearly income, had he been able to purchase from them those moments of blits.

The youth of the round-about now saw, in his mind's eye, this lover and his lass, as he had seen them upon that night; but his glowing imagination shewed him even much more than what his eyes had really seen.

The girl was a stout and rosy country wench, with a face full of dainty dots and dimples, black langhing eye, a skin mellowed by many a harvest sun, and rounded limbs as firm as the flesh of the wild grape.

As for the young fellow! Lust seemed to exhale from all his pores, to twinkle in his sparkling eyes, to ooze out of his thick and fleshy lips, to bristle in his crisp black moustache.