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 spell of that indomitable will, she remained transfixed and motionless. Fie, thereupon, whispered to her: my flesh is lusting after thine; for, as the earth now pants for rain, and flowers for dew, so do I pine for love of thee. My pulses beat with wild delight and love and lust. Awake then from they languid sleep, and let thy flesh with eager heat, melt into mine!

The young girl thereupon, not only stood still, and let him palp her at his will, but she pressed her mouth against his burning lips and drank up his breath. Moreover she opened her thighs so that his fingers might penetrate into her secret parts, and as he softly tickled her, murmurs of pleasure and cooings of delight escaped from her. When he had thus sported with her, toyed with the edge of her lips, passed his hands over her thighs, over the small rounded lobes of her posterior parts, his prickle standing out huge and stiff, he took her small delicate hand and placed it within her soft palm. No sooner had she felt it than she started back, shocked, and seemed about to waken from some horrid dream