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 since I was now over the bar, I thought by plunging over head and ears into the stream I was hurried away by, to drown all sense of shame or reflection.

Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters Mr. H The consciousness of what I had been doing, deepen'd yet the glowing of my cheeks, flushed with the warmth of the late action, which, join'd to the piquant air of my dishabil, drew from Mr. H a compliment on my looks, which he was proceeding to back the sincerity of with proofs, and that with so brisk an action, as made me tremble for fear of a discovery from the condition those parts were left in from their late severe handling: the orifice dilated and inflam'd, the lips swoln with their uncommon distension, the ringlets press'd down, crush'd and uncurl'd with the overflowing moisture that had wet every thing round it; the different feel and state of things, in short, would hardly have pass'd, upon one of Mr. H's nicety and experience, unaccounted for but by the real cause; but here the woman sav'd me: I pretended a violent dis-