Here I imagin'd the stripping was to
stop, but I reckoned short: my spark, at the desire of the
rest, tenderly begged that I would not suffer the small re-
mains of a covering to rob them of a full view of my whole
person; and for me, who was too flexibly obsequious to dis-
pute any point with them, and who considered the little more
that remain'd as very immaterial, I readily assented to what-
ever he pleased. In an instant, then, my under-petticoat was
untied and at my feet, and my shift drawn over my head, so
that my cap, slightly fasten'd, came off with it, and brought
all my hair down (of which, be it again remembered without
vanity, that I had a very fine head) in loose disorderly ring-
lets, over my neck and shoulders, to the not unfavourable
set-off of my skin.
I now stood before my judges in all the truth of nature,
to whom I could not appear a very disagreeable figure, if you
please to recollect what I have before said of my person,
which time, that at certain periods of life robs us every
instant of our charms, had, at that of mine, then greatly
improved into full and open bloom, for I wanted some months
of eighteen. My breasts, which in the state of nudity are
ever capital points, now in no more than in graceful pleni-
tude, maintained a firmness and steady independence of any
stay or support that dared and invited the test of the touch.
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