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 When the lamps in the yard had all been put out, he saw the couple walk quietly away; and heard murmuring words of love which sounded like the soft cooing of doves.

After a few shuffling steps, they stopped in the darkness, and the youth, taking hold of the girl's face, with his broad palm, stooped down and hungrily pressed his mouth on those luscious lips, pouting up towards his.

At that touch he feels how their pulses must flutter, their nerves must thrill.

Then they looked round to see if anybody was watching them; thereupon the athletic young fellow passed his brawny arm—an arm that might-have felled an oak—round the wench's waist, and clasped her to his chest.

Her whole body seemed to yield to that grasp, her breasts swelled out and heaved to meet that male's caresses.

As their limbs came in close contact, an intense longing flashed in their hungry eyes.

For some time cleaving together, they drank each other's breath and sucked each other's lips with feverish eagerness.

Their legs were pressed together, their