In proportion as she felt the pain increase, Maria began to exhibit symptoms of the intensity of her feelings. She turned and twisted about, and writhed her body in every manner of strange contortion, sometimes raising up her buttocks by resting on her knees, so as to exhibit her lovely belly, sometimes trying to avoid the sharp stripes by turning herself round to my side, thereby giving me a full view of the front part of her person, with the lovely characteristic which distinguishes our sex showing its delicious lips opening and closing again, as they were affected by the nature of her contortions and the constant twisting and writhing of her body.

When this took place my aunt was pretty sure, by a sharp application of the rod, to make her turn round again, but when on the other hand she moved herself so as to expose the same delightful sight to the evidently charmed gaze of Mr. Everard, she rather suspended her blows, or merely applied them so lightly, as to induce Maria to remain for a time in the same attitude.

During the operation my aunt's robe flew open and I discovered that she had nothing on beneath it, except a thin chemise. Her robe hanging down over her shoulders exhibited her entire bosom, naked, with its charming promontories which, though more full-grown and considerably larger and more mature in their proportions, were equally lovely in shape and colour. Occasionally, as she changed her position, I could catch a glimpse of her naked legs and thighs, though these were more generally turned in the opposite direction from me.

At length, as if exhausted with the exertion and tired of standing longer, she sat down on the couch-and as Maria's motions were now becoming more fierce and energetic, she placed her arm round the girl's waist as if to restrain her struggles, though it rather appeared to me as if it was done with the view of procuring a better exhibition of every part of her person.