Then a mess caused me to think seriously of burning the whole. I recollect even now to a degree which astonishes me, the face, color, stature, thighs, backside, and sung of well nigh every woman I have had, who was not a mere casual, and even of some who were. Xxx There are plenty who will cry fie who have done all and worse than I have and habitually, but crying out at the sins of others was always a way of hiding one s own iniquity. Written perhaps by a woman, there were maids written with equal truth? But my doings with man and woman are as true as gospel If I say that I saw, or did, that with a cousin, male or female, it was with a cousin and no mere acquaintance; if with a servant, it was with a servant; if with




















