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 powered her, and she was about to seize the bell-rope and call for help. Still she managed to quiet her fright and to wait—and see what would happen next.

What her niece had told her over and over, about the young man, happened likewise at present; he pulled off his shirt, he cast off his breeches and advanced quite naked towards the bed; he seemed quite at home in the room.

Is was he, surely it could not be anybody else.

In an instant he was by the bed, then on her.

As the night was warm and sultry, she had been lying uncovered, with her legs apart and her thighs well open to enjoy the slight freshness of the breeze wafted in the valley down below. She had nothing on her body but a scanty chemise, and that was all uplifted on her stomach.

What was the young man's surprise to find his prickle slip softly within the bulgy lips, and disappear in all its length within the pulpy yielding flesh; he had never believed that a woman so tight the day before could