                            THE TENTH DAY

        (Remember to be more guarded in the beginning and more
         gradually to disclose what is to be clarified here.)

       The farther we advance, the more thoroughly we may inform the
reader about certain facts we were obliged to no more than hint at in
the earlier part of the story. We are able, for example, presently to
advise him of the purpose of the morning visits and searches conducted
in the children's quarters, the cause of their punishment when in the
course of these inspections delinquents were found, and just what were
the delights Messieurs tasted in the chapel: the subjects were
expressly forbidden to go to the toilet or in any other place to move
their bowels without individual and particular permission, this in
order that there be held in reserve matters which could, as the
occasion rose, be doled out to those who desired them. The visit
served to determine whether anyone had neglected to comply with this
order; the officer of the month carefully inspected all the chamber
pots and other receptacles, and if he found any that were not empty,
the subject concerned was immediately inscribed in the punishment
register. However, provision had been made for those who could hold
back no longer: they were, a little before the midday meal, to betake
themselves to the chapel Messieurs had converted into a privy so
designed that our libertines were able to enjoy the pleasure which the
satisfaction of these pressing needs had the power to procure them,
and the others, who had been allowed, or who had been able, to keep
their loads, had the opportunity to be rid of them at some time or
another during the day and in that manner which most pleased the
friends, and above all in that particular manner upon which full
details will subsequently be provided, for these details will compass
all the manners of indulging in this voluptuous delight.
       And there was yet another cause which led to the distribution
of punishment, and it was the following one: what is called in France
the bidet ceremony did not exactly please our friends; Curval, for
example, could not bear to have the subjects with whom he came to
grips wash themselves; Durcet's attitude was identical, and so it was
that the one and the other would notify their duennas of the subjects
with whom they planned to amuse themselves the next day, and these
subjects were forbidden to wipe, rub, or wash themselves in any way
and under any circumstances, and the two other friends, who did not
share this abhorrance of tidiness and for whom dirt was not by any
means essential, nevertheless concurred with Curval and Durcet, aided
in maintaining and agreeable state of affairs, and it after having
been told to be impure a subject took it into his head to be clean, he
was straightway added to the fatal list.
       That is what happened that morning to Colombe and Hb; they
had shitted during the previous night's orgies and, knowing that they
were listed to serve coffee on the following day, Curval, who planned
to amuse himself with both of them and who had even advised them that
they would be expected to fart, had recommended that things be left
just as they were. The children did nothing to themselves before going
to bed. Inspection arrived, and Durcet, aware of the instructions
Curval had given, was perfectly amazed to find them as neat as a pin;
forgetfulness was the excuse they offered, but their names went down
in the register nevertheless.
       No chapel permissions were granted that morning. (We should
like the reader to make a particular effort to remember what we mean
by such an expression; this will dispense us from having to repeat our
explanations.) Calculations of what would be required during the
storytelling period forbade any prodigality until that time.
       Upon this day the boys' masturbation lessons were suspended,
for they had entirely served their purpose, and every one of the
little lads frigged as expertly as the cleverest whore in Paris.
Zphyr and Adonis led the pack in skill, speed, and deftness, and
there are few pricks which would not ejaculate nigh to bleeding were
they to be ministered by little hands as nimble and delicious as
theirs.
       Nothing worth citing occurred until coffee; it was served by
Giton, Adonis, Colombe, and Hb; these four children had, by way of
preparation, been stuffed with every decoction which is best able to
provoke winds, and Curval, who had proposed to be treated to farts,
received a generous quantity of them. The Duc had himself sucked, or
rather licked, by Giton, whose little mouth simply could not manage to
engulf the enormous machine tendered him. Durcet performed some choice
little horrors with Hb, the Bishop thigh-fucked Colombe. Six o'clock
sounded, they moved into the auditorium where, everyone having taken
his post, Duclos began to recount what you shall read:

       A new companion had very recently come to Madame Fournier's;
owing to the role she is going to play in the account of the passion
which follows, I believe I should give you at least a rough sketch of
her. She was a young seamstress, debauched by the seducer I earlier
mentioned having observed at Gurin's, and she also worked for
Fournier. She was fourteen, had chestnut-brown hair, sparkling brown
eyes, the most voluptuous little face in all the world, skin lily
white and satin smooth, very trimly made she was, although rather
inclining to fleshiness, from which slight disadvantage there resulted
the sweetest, cutest, the plumpest ass, the fairest, oh 'twas possibly
the finest ass in Paris. I was stationed at the hole in the partition
and soon beheld the man who was to deflower her, for she was yet a
maid on the other side, nothing could be plainer. Such a tidbit could
only have been fed to someone very much beloved of the house: he was
the venerable Abb de Fierville, equally renowned for his wealth and
his debauchery, and he had the gout to his very fingertips. He arrives
swathed to the eyes in a mantle, installs himself in the chamber,
examines all the equipment he is about to use, prepares everything,
and then the little girl arrives; her name is Eugnie. Somewhat
frightened by her first lover's grotesque face, she lowers her gaze
and blushes.
       "Come hither, come hither," says the libertine, "and show me
your behind."
       "Oh, Monsieur . . ." murmurs the shy little thing.
       "Come, come," fumes the old rou, "nothing worse than these
novices; she just can't imagine anyone should wish to look at an ass.
Well, by the Saviour, get your damned skirts up."
       And, stepping closer for fear of displeasing Fournier, whom she
has promised to be very obedient, she finally pulls her skirt halfway
up from behind.
       "Higher, do you hear, higher," cries the pleasant old rascal.
"Do you suppose I'm going to bother to do it myself?"
       And in due time the beautiful ass is completely exposed. The
man of God scrutinizes it, has her stand straight, has her bend
forward, has her squeeze her legs tight together, has her separate
them and, leaning her over the bed, spends a moment crudely, nay,
uncouthly rubbing all his frontward privities, which he has brought to
light and with which he now prods and pushes Eugnie's matchless bum,
as if to electrify himself, as if to attract to himself some of that
lovely child's essential heat. From this he passes to kisses, he falls
to his knees in order to be more at his ease, and with both hands
holding those superb buttocks as far apart as possible, both his
tongue and lips rummage about in search of treasure.
       "They're right," says he, "you do have a passably fine ass.
Have you been shitting recently?"
       "Just a little while ago, Father," the little one answers.
"Madame had me do that before coming up."
       "Why, that's nice . . . and so there's nothing left in your
bowels," says the lecher. "Well, we're going to see."
       And catching up the syringe, he fills it with milk, returns to
behind his object, brandishes the nozzle, plunges it into the vent,
and shoots out the fluid. Having been told what to expect, Eugnie
submits to everything; no sooner is the remedy in her entrails than he
lies down on the bed and orders Eugnie to come at once and straddle
him. "Now," says he, "if you've got anything to do, have the kindness
to do it in my mouth." The timid creature has taken her place as she
has been told to do, she pushes, the libertine frigs himself, his
mouth, sealed hermetically to her asshole, catches every drop of the
precious liquid that leaps out of it. He swallows it all, giving
evidence of the greatest scrupulousness in this matter, and just when
he swills down the final mouthful, his fuck escapes and he is hurled
into a delirium. But what is this strange mood, this cloud of loathing
which, as in the case of almost every other libertine, comes to darken
a mind whence the entire illusion has fled? Brutally casting the
little girl far from him once he has done, the saintly man readjusts
his cleric's garb, says that he has been cheated, deceived, for this
child, he swears, had not priorly shitted, no, they'd lied, she'd come
to him full of shit, and he'd swallowed half her turd, fie upon them.
It is to be noted that Monsieur l'Abb wanted milk only, not shit. He
grumbles, he curses, he storms, says he won't pay, won't ever come
back, says he'll be damned if he'll stir himself for little snotfaces
like this one, and goes off shouting a thousand other invectives I'll
surely have occasion to report to you in connection with another
passion in which they play a major role rather than, as in this
instance, a very subordinate one.

       "Well, by God," Curval remarked, "there you have a very
fastidious man who'll get upset over swallowing a little shit when
there are I don't know how many who feast upon it."
       "Patience, Sire, patience," said Duclos, "allow my recitals to
succeed each other in the order you yourselves dictated and you shall
see the superior libertines you allude to achieve wonders on the
stage."

       My turn came two days later. Instructions had been given me,
and I stayed away from the water closet for thirty-six hours. My hero
was an elderly ecclesiastic who served as chaplain to the King; like
the aforementioned athlete he too was crippled with gout: he was only
to be approached if one were naked, but one's front and breast had to
be very thoroughly covered; much emphasis had been placed upon this
latter article, and I had been warned that were he to catch the least
glimpse of those parts, it would prove a heavy misfortune, I'd never
be able to get him to discharge. I approach, he studies my behind with
extreme attentiveness, asks my age, asks whether it is true I have a
great urge to shit, inquires as to the kind of shit I ordinarily
produce, is it soft? is it hard? and a thousand other questions the
asking of which, it seems to me, has the effect of animating him, for,
as he chatters away his prick gradually lifts its head and leans
toward me. That prick, approximately four inches in length by two or
three around, had, despite its brilliant sheen, something of so humble
and so pitiful an air that one all but needed spectacles to be certain
of its existence. Solicited by my man thus to do, I laid firm hands on
it, and noticing that my motion were rather well irritating his
desires, he made ready to consummate the sacrifice.
       "But is it a truly authentic desire, my child," says he, "this
desire to shit you mention? For I don't care to be deceived; come,
let's see whether you do indeed have shit in your ass."
       And so saying, he buries his right hand's longest finger in my
fundament, while with his left hand he sustains the erection I have
excited in his desire. That plummeting finger had no need to search
far, the chaplain was swiftly persuaded I had, quite as I said, the
sincerest wish to shit, and when his gropings contacted the object of
our mutual concern, he flew into a perfect ecstasy:
       "Ah, by God's belly," he cries, "she tells the truth, the
chicken is about to lay, and I feel the egg."
       Enchanted, the bawdy old priest passes a moment kissing my bum,
and observing the haste I am in and that I shall soon be unable to
restrain the insurgent turd, he has me climb aboard on apparatus quite
similar to the one your Lordships have here in the chapel; once
seated, my behind perfectly exposed to his view, I was able to lodge
my complaint in a receptable located two or three inches from his
nose. This apparatus had been built expressly for the chaplain, and he
employed it frequently, for scarcely a day went by without him coming
to Fournier's to assist in delivering either some girl attached to the
house or some other from outside it. An armchair drawn close allowed
him to observe the process from a point of vantage situated just below
the ring supporting my ass.
       When we had taken our positions upon our respective thrones, he
ordered me to commence the operation. For prelude, I release a series
of farts; he inhales them. The turd hoves into sight at last; he
begins to pant.
       "Shit, my little one, shit away, my angel," he cries, all
afire. "Show me the turd coming forth out of your lovely ass."
       And he aids the delivery, pressing his fingers about my anus,
he facilitates the eruption; he frigs himself, he observes, he is
drunk with lust, pleasure's excess finally transports him completely,
he loses his head; his cries, his sighs, his fingerings, everything
convinces me he is nearing the final stage and, turning my head toward
him, I find I have judged correctly, for there is his miniature engine
splattering a few drops of sperm into the same pot I have just filled.
The chaplain left in a good humor, and even assured me he expected he
would honor me with another visit, which promise I knew very well to
be false, for it was common knowledge that he never saw the same girl
twice.

       "Well, I appreciate his feelings in the matter," declared the
Prsident, who was kissing Aline's ass. "One must be in our deplorable
situation, one must be reduced to rack and ruin in order to be able to
bear having the same ass shit twice."
       "Monsieur le Prsident," spoke up the Bishop, "there is a
certain halting tone in your voice which leads me to suspect your
prick is in the air."
       "Tush," Curval replied, "I'm merely kissing the buttocks of
Mademoiselle your daughter, who hasn't even the courtesy to let fly
one wretched little fart."
       "I am then enjoying better luck than you," the Bishop
announced, "for Madame your wife, lo and behold! has just presented me
with the most beautiful and the bulkiest turd. . . ."
       "Silence, gentlemen, silence, I say!" came from the Duc, whose
voice seemed muffled as if by something covering his head. "Silence,
by Jesus! we are here to listen, not to act."
       "Which is therefore to say, I take it, that you are doing
nothing," inquired the Bishop, "and is it in order to listen that you
are wallowing under three or four assholes?"
       Well, you know, he's right. Go on, Duclos, it were wiser that
we hear about foolish acts than commit them. We must save our
strength."
       And Duclos was on the point of resuming when they all heard the
usual shouts and customary blasphemies that accompanied the Duc's
discharges; surrounded by his quatrain, his fuck was escaping him as
with Sophie, Zphyr, and Giton he performed countless little
wantonries of a kind very analogous to those Duclos had been
describing.
       "Great God!" Curval exclaimed, "I can't tolerate these bad
examples; there's nothing that makes me discharge like a discharge,
and would you believe it? here's that little whore," he added,
referring to Aline, "who only a moment ago could accomplish nothing at
all and who is presently doing everything one could ask for . . . but
no matter, I'll keep my grip. Ah, you bitch, shit away, shit your head
off, it will get you nowhere, I don't intend to give up my seed."
       "I see very well, Messieurs," said Duclos, "that after having
perverted you it is my responsibility to restore you to reason, and to
do so I am going to resume my story without waiting for your command."
       "No, don't you do it," cried the Bishop, "I am not as continent
as Monsieur le Prsident, not I, my fuck's itching me, and it's got to
be shed."
       Wherewith, he was seen very publicly to perform things the
structure of this very complex fiction prevents us from revealing at
this stage, but things whose delightful influence very rapidly brought
leaping forth the fuck whose mounting pressure had discomfited the
Bishop's thrice-blessed balls. As for Durcet, absorbed in Thrse's
ass, nothing was heard from him, and in all likelihood Nature refused
him what she lavishly granted the others, for he was not as a rule
mute when accorded her favors. Seeing that now at last calm had been
restored, Duclos went on with her lubricious exploits.

       A month later, I came to grips with a man whom one had almost
to violate in order satisfactorily to carry out an operation somewhat
akin to the one I related several minutes ago. I shit upon a dish, I
bring it to him and thrust it under his nose while he sits in an
armchair quietly reading a book, seemingly unaware of my presence. He
looks up, falls to swearing, asks how the devil can the girl have the
insolence to do such a thing in his presence, but all the same it's a
queer turd she's got there, he contemplates it, handles it; I ask
forgiveness for the liberty I have taken, he continues to mumble
incoherencies at me, and then discharges with his eyes fixed on the
morsel of shit; and in so doing he says he'll find me again someday,
that sooner or later he'll see to it that I get what I deserve.
       A fourth gentleman employed none but women of seventy or more
in practices which were quite similar; I watched him enact his rite
with an old creature who could not have been less than eighty. He was
reclining upon a sofa, the matron was straddling him; she deposited
her strange old package on his belly while frigging a wrinkled,
shriveled prick which scarcely discharged at all.
       At Fournier's establishment we had another curious article of
furniture: a kind of toilet chair, provided with the usual hole and
set against the wall; things were so arranged that a man could lie in
such a way that while his body extended into the neighboring room, his
shoulders passed through an opening and his head occupied the place
usually reserved for the chamber pot. I had been appointed to the
task, and kneeling between his legs, I sucked his prick as best I
could throughout the operation. Well, this extraordinary ceremony
consisted in having a workman, who was paid to act a part whose full
consequences he neither knew nor divined; in having, I say, a man of
the people enter the room containing the chair, climb upon it, and do
his business squarely upon the face of the patient over whom I was
toiling; but the shit bearer had absolutely to be a poor drudge
fetched in from the humblest milieu, he had as well to be old and
ugly, he was inspected before being put to work, and were he to lack
any of these qualities, our libertine would have nothing to do with
him. During all this, I saw nothing but heard rather a lot: the
instant of collision was also that of my man's discharge, his fuck
sprang down my throat the same moment the turd splashed upon his face,
and when he emerged from beneath the chair and got to his feet, I saw
by the state he was in that he had been handsomely served. By chance,
after the exercise was over, I happened to meet the fellow who had
performed so brilliantly; he was from the Auvergne, a good honest chap
who earned his livelihood working with stonemasons; he seemed
delighted to earn a crown by doing naught but ridding himself of what
he would have had one way or another to expel from his bowels, and
this little chore struck him as infinitely less arduous than carrying
his hod. He was, what for his looks, quite dreadful to behold and must
have been over forty.

       "Faith," muttered Durcet, "I think that should do it."
       And passing into his closet with the eldest of the fuckers,
with Thrse and Desgranges, he was heard braying and whinnying some
minutes later; he returned but was disinclined to inform the company
of the precise nature of the excesses whereunto he had surrendered
himself.
       Supper was announced; it proved at least as libertine as ever,
and after the meal, the four friends having been moved to spend the
evening away from one another instead of frolicking together as they
customarily did, the Duc went off to the boudoir at the end of the
corridor, taking with him Hercule, Martaine, his daughter Julie,
Zelmire, Hb, Zlamir, Cupidon, and Marie.
       Curval commandeered the auditorium, providing himself with what
companionship Constance could afford him, for she fell to trembling
every time she found herself with him, and he did exceedingly little
to allay her fears; he also took Fanchon, Desgranges, Bum-Cleaver,
Augustine, Fanny, Narcisse, and Zphyr.
       The Bishop went into the drawing room with Duclos who, that
evening, revenged herself upon the fickle Duc, who had led Martaine
away from him; Aline, Invictus, Thrse, Sophie, the charming little
Colombe, Cladon, and Adonis completed the prelate's entourage.
       Durcet remained in the dining room. It was cleared, rugs and
cushions were brought in and strewn all about. He encloseted himself,
I say, with Adelaide, his beloved wife, with Antinos, Louison,
Champville, Michette, Rosette, Hyacinthe, and Giton.
       More the redoubling of lecherous appetites than any other
reason had doubtless dictated this arrangement, for brains were heated
to such a point that evening that it was unanimously agreed no one
would go to bed; it was perfectly incredible what was achieved in each
room by way of infamies and impurities.
       Toward dawn, their Lordships decided to return to table,
although they had taken abundant drink throughout the night; everyone
trooped into the dining room, there was an indistinct, promiscuous
pell-mell, the cooks were awakened and soon sent in scrambled eggs,
toast, onion soup, and omelettes. Drinking was resumed, the company
grew very merry, all save Constance who was plunged in inconsolable
sadness. Curval's hatred was growing just as certainly as was her poor
belly; she had that night during the orgies experienced the effects of
his hostility, she had suffered everything but blows, for Messieurs
had agreed to leave the pear to ripen; she had, I say, blows excepted,
undergone every imaginable mistreatment; she though to complain to
Durcet and to her husband, the Duc: they both bade her go to the devil
and remarked that she must surely have been guilty of some fault which
was hidden from their eyes, yes, surely, else how could she thus ever
have displeased that most virtuous and most gentle of mortals; they
wagged their heads and walked away. And then they all went to bed.
