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 and several inches in breadth. At that sight a flash of lightning passed before the young girl's eyes, then the blood rushed upwards, downwards, throughout her whole body, but this fluid seemed parched or mixed with some corrosive liquid that muddled and maddened her brain. She saw to her regret the prickle disappear in the young man's grasp, she remarked the shivering which followed this act, his parted languid lips, his half-closed swimming eyes, nay she even noticed his panting and convulsive breath. So, as she gloated upon the youth, she felt within herself all the sensations he himself was undergoing. Thereupon a burning fire was kindled in her womb and spread itself all around her middle parts. Her tiny lips were opened with an inward craving; then, hardly knowing what she was doing, almost urged by a spirit of imitation, or else obeying some imperative order of nature, she lifted up her skirts and thrust the tip of her tapering fore-finger on the top of her slit, just at the foot of Venus' volcanic mount; she skimmed rather then rubbed those sensitive parts. She had hardly touched them