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 have got so wide and baggy in a single day; his astonishment however increased when he felt himself clasped tightly and his body strained against two fat and falling breasts, which were so different from that budding bosom or the slight dainty limbs of the frail virgin he had deflowered and enjoyed on the previous night.

A moment of bewilderment followed, a thousand thoughts flitted through Ins brain, each chasing the other as snow-flakes on a stormy day.

He had often heard that marriage changes a girl entirely, but could she possibly have grown not only so lax, but so bulky in the space of a day?

Was he dreaming, had he gone into the wrong room, into some other bed? After pondering over it, he concluded—as you and I had done—that his mistress had changed her room and that some other woman had come here in her stead.

In the meanwhile he was tightly clasped and griped and strained and held fast.

His arms, his legs, his whole body was