                            THE FOURTH DAY

       Being full eager to be able to distinguish immediately which of
the youngsters in either sex was, in a depucelatory sense, to belong
to each of their number, the friends decided to have them wear,
regardless of their costume and, in that other extreme, even when
undressed, a hair ribbon, which would indicate of whom the individual
child was the property. Colors were thereupon chosen: the Duc adopted
pink and green: whosoever should wear a pink ribbon to the fore, would
be his by the cunt; similarly, whosoever wore a green ribbon to the
rear, would be his by the ass. And so Fanny, Zelmire, Sophie, and
Augustine straightway affixed a pink ribbon on one side of their
coiffures; Rosette, Hb, Michette, Giton, and Zphyr attached a green
favor to their hair where it fell toward the neck, this clue attesting
the rights of the Duc enjoyed to their asses.
       Curval chose black for the front, yellow for the rear; thus
Michette, Hb, Colombe, and Rosette were in future constantly to wear
a black ribbon forward; Sophie, Zelmire, Augustine, Zlamir, and
Adonis pinned a yellow one above their nape.
       Durcet identified his Hyacinthe with a lilac ribbon hanging to
the rear, and the Bishop, who owned title to but five assholes to be
deflowered sodomistically, ordered Cupidon, Narcisse, Cladon,
Colombe, and Fanny to wear a violet one in the rear.
       Never, regardless of the subject's posture, chore, or dress,
were these ribbons to be neglected or improperly worn, and so it was
that by this simple arrangement each friend was always able to tell at
a glance what property was his, and in what way.
       Curval, who had passed the night with Constance, had bitter
complaints to lodge against her in the morning. It was not entirely
clear what lay at the root of the trouble, nor what precisely the
trouble was; so little is needed to displease a libertine. But there
was more than enough to the thing to cause him to have her listed for
Saturday punishment, and he was formulating charges when that lovely
creature declared that she was pregnant; Curval, apart from her
husband the only one whom it was possible to suspect as the agent in
this affair, had effected no carnal juncture with her save at the
beginning of this party, that is to say, four days previously. Our
libertines were gladdened by these tidings, seeing in the event much
possibility of clandestine delight, and the Duc exulted over this
stroke of fortune. In any event, the declaration earned her exemption
from the punishment she would otherwise have had to undergo in return
for having displeased Curval. She was to be spared: they preferred to
leave the fruits on the branch to ripen, a gravid woman diverted them,
and what they promised themselves for later on even more lewdly
entertained their perfidious imaginations. Constance was dispensed
from service at table, from chastisements, and from a few other little
odds and ends the accomplishment of which her state no longer rendered
voluptuous to observe, but she was still obliged to appear upon the
couches and until further orders to share bed of whoever wished to
choose her for the night.
       It was Durcet who, that morning, contributed his presence to
the pollution exercises, and as his prick was extraordinarily small,
he gave the pupils rather more a problem than had been posed by the
Duc's massive construction. However, they fell earnestly to work. But
the little banker, who had been plying a woman's trade all night long,
could never bear a man's. He was adamant, intractable, and the skill
of these eight charming students combined with that of their deft
instructress was unable, when all was said and done, even to get him
to raise his nose. He left the classroom in triumph, and as impotence
always provokes that kind of mood called a teasing one in the idiom of
libertinage, his inspections were astonishingly severe. Rosette
amongst the girls, Zlamir amongst the boys were the victims of his
thoroughness: one was not as she had been told to be - this enigma
will be explained - the other, unfortunately, had rid himself of what
he had been ordered to keep.
       Those present at the public latrines were only seven in number:
Duclos, Marie, Aline, and Fanny, two second-class fuckers, and Giton,
Curval, who did considerable stiffening that day, grew very excited
over Duclos. Dinner, at which his conduct and remarks were very
libertine indeed, calmed him not one whit, and the coffee served by
Colombe, Sophie, Zphyr, and his dear friend Adonis, set his brain all
afire. He laid hands on this selfsame Adonis, tumbled him onto a sofa,
and while spewing forth oaths slid his enormous member between the
lad's thighs (approaching him from behind), and as that outsized tool
protruded a fair six inches beyond, he commanded Adonis vigorously to
frig what emerged, and himself set to frigging the boy above the
morsel of flesh upon which Adonis was spitted. Meanwhile, he presented
the assembly with an ass no less filthy than broad, whose impure
orifice began to exert a potent attraction upon the Duc. Seeing this
ass within reach, he trained his vivacious prick on the hole while
continuing to suck Zphyr's mouth, an operation he had begun before
this new idea had occurred to him.
       Curval, who had not been expecting such an attack, emitted
blasphemous paeans of joy. He danced with delight, spread himself
wider, braced himself; at the same instant, the fresh young fuck of
the charming boy he was frigging started to drip out upon the enormous
head of his own aroused instrument. That warm fuck he feels wetting
him, the reiterated blows of the Duc who is also beginning to
discharge, it all quickens his warrior's soul, the weapon is primed,
off goes the gun, floods of foamy sperm splash against Durcet's ass,
for the banker has just posted himself there within easy range lest,
says he, something be wasted, and Durcet's plump white buttocks are
submerged beneath a spellbinding liquor he would have by far preferred
as a rinse for his bowels.
       Nor was the Bishop idle; he was one after the other sucking
clean the divine assholes of Colombe and Sophie. But doubtless
fatigued by some nocturnal exercise, he showed not one spark of life,
and like all other libertines rendered unjust by caprice and disgust,
he lashed out furiously against these two delicious children, blaming
them for the only too well merited shortcomings of his debilitated
frame. Messieurs nap for a few minutes; then 'tis story-telling time,
and in they troop to listen to the amiable Duclos, who resumes her
tale in the following manner:

       There had been a few changes in Madame Gurin's house, said our
heroine. Two very pretty girls had just found dupes who were only too
willing to keep them and whom they deceived just the way we all do. To
fill the gaps in the ranks, our dear mother had scouted around and set
her sights upon a rue Saint-Denis tavern-keeper's daughter, thirteen
years old and one of the most fetching creatures in all the wide
world. But the little lady, quite as well-behaved as she was pious,
was successfully resisting all enticements when Gurin, having one day
employed the cleverest stratagem to lure her to her house, immediately
put her in the hands of the unusual person whose mania I propose to
describe next. He was an ecclesiastic of fifty-five or fifty-six, but
so youthful and vigorous you'd have thought him under forty. No man in
Europe had such a singular talent for drawing young girls into vice,
and as it was his one art, developed to a sublime degree, he had
turned it into his one and only pleasure. The whole of his fleshy
delight consisted in extirpating childhood prejudices and unnatural
terrors, in cultivating scorn for virtue, in decking vice in the most
dazzling colors. He neglected nothing: seductive images, flattering
promises, delicious examples, he would press everything into service,
everything would be brilliantly manipulated, his artistry being
faultlessly attuned to the child's age and cast of mind, and never did
he miss the mark. Granted a mere two hours of conversation, he was
sure to make a whore of the best-behaved and most reasonable little
girl; for thirty years he had been conducting his missionary labors in
Paris, and, he had once assured Madame Gurin, who counted herself one
of his best friends, he had to his credit more than ten thousand girls
whom he had personally seduced and plunged into libertinage. He
rendered similar services to at least fifteen procuresses, and
whenever he was not coping with a particular problem at someone else's
behest, he was busy doing research for its own sake and for his
professional pleasure, energetically corrupting whatever he came
across and then packing it off to his outfitters. Now, the most
extraordinary aspect of the entire thing, and the one which,
Messieurs, prompts me to cite the example of this uncommon idividual,
was that he never enjoyed the fruit of his labors. He would encloset
himself alone with the child, but, despite his vast understanding, his
mind's agility, his eloquent persuasiveness, he used always to emerge
from conference greatly inflamed. One could be perfectly certain the
operation irritated his senses, but it was impossible to discover
where or when or how he satisfied them. Closest scrutiny had never
revealed anything but a prodigious blaze in his stare when once he had
concluded his speeches, a few twitching movements of his hand upon the
front of his breeches, within which one could tell there was a
definite erection, produced by the diabolic work he was doing; but
that was all.
       He came to the house, was accorded a private interview with the
young barmaid, I watched the proceedings: the consultation was
prolonged, the seducer's language was amazingly pathetic, the child
wept, got hot, seemed to enter into a kind of enthusiastic fit; it was
at this moment the orator's eyes flamed brightest, and it was now we
remarked the gestures in the neighborhood of his fly. Not long
afterward, he rose, the child stretched forth her arms as if seeking
to embrace him, he kissed her in a grave and fatherly manner, without
any trace of lechery. He left, and three hours later the little girl
arrived with her baggage at Madame Gurin's.

       "And the man?" asked the Duc.
       "He disappeared once his sermon was over," Duclos replied.
       "Without coming back to see the results of his work?"
       "No, my Lord, there was no doubt in his mind. He had never once
failed."
       "Now there is a most extraordinary personage," Curval admitted.
"What does your Grace make of it?"
       "I suspect," the Duc answered, "that the seduction provided all
the heat necessary and that he discharged in his breeches."
       "No," quoth the Bishop, "I think you underestimate the man: all
this was simply by way of preparation for his debauches, and upon
leaving I wager he went off to consummate greater ones."
       "Greater ones?" cried Durcet. "And what more delicious, more
voluptuous delight could one hope to procure oneself, than that of
enjoying the objest one creates?"
       "I have it!" spoke up the Duc, "I dare say I've found him out:
all this, just as you say, was merely preparatory in character,
corrupting girls would heat his imagination, the off he'd go to dip
his tool in boys. . . . I'll wager he was a bugger, yes, 'tis plain."
       Duclos was asked whether she had any evidence to support that
conjecture, and did he or did he not also seduce little boys? Our
narrator replied that she had no proof of the thing, and despite the
Duc's exceedingly likely allegation, everyone remained more or less in
suspense as to the character of that strange preacher; after it had
been unanimously agreed that his mania was truly delicious, but that
one had either to consummate the work or do worse afterward, Duclos
went on with her story:

       The day after the arrival of our young novice, who was named
Henriette, there came to the establishment an eccentric old lecher who
put us both, Henriette and I, to work at the same time. This latest
libertine had no other pleasure than that of observing through a hole
all the voluptuous activities transpiring in an adjoining room, he
adored spying on them, thus found in others' pleasures the divine
aliment of his own lubricity. He was installed in the room I mentioned
to you, the same one to which I and my companions often repaired for
the diversion of watching libertines in action. I was assigned the
task of amusing him while he looked through the hole, and young
Henriette entered the arena together with the asshole-sucker I
described you yesterday. The management considered that rascal's very
voluptuous antics just the kind of spectacle my onlooker would relish,
and in order better to arouse the actor, and in order that he render
the scene yet more lascivious and more agreeable to see, he was told
he was being given an apprentice and that it was with him she was to
make her debut. The little barmaid's air of modesty and childishness
speedily convinced him of it; and so he was as hot and as lewd in his
nasty stunts as 'twere possible to be; nothing could have been further
from his mind than that he was being observed. As for my old buck, his
eye glued to the hole, one hand on my bum, the other on his prick,
which he gently agitated, he seemed to be keeping the progress of his
ecstasy abreast the one he was watching. "Ah, what a sight!" he said
now and again; "what a fine ass that little girl has, and how well
that bugger in there is tonguing it." At last, Henriette's lover
having discharged, mine folded me in his arms and, after a moment's
kissing, he turned me over, fondled, kissed, lewdly licked my behind,
and squirted evidence of his virility over my cheeks.

       "While frigging himself?" the Duc asked.
       "Yes, my Lord," answered Duclos, "and frigging a prick whose
incredible littleness, I assure you, isn't worth the bother
describing."

       The gentleman with whom I had to do next, Duclos continued,
would not perhaps deserve to be included in my report were it not for
one element, a rather unusual one, I should say, which distinguished
his otherwise quite routine pleasures, and this little circumstance
will illustrate to what point libertinage is able to degrade all a
man's feelings of modesty, virtue and decorum. This person did not
want to see; he wished to be seen. Knowing that men exist whose whim
it is to spy upon the pleasure-takings of others, he bade Gurin find
him one such fellow, conceal him, and said he would enact a drama for
him. Gurin at once got in touch with the man I had entertained a few
days previously behind the partition, and without telling him that the
performer he was about to see knew that he was going to be seen - this
would have interfered with his passion's fulfillment - she gave him to
believe he was to observe a very arcane mystery indeed.
       The inspector and my sister were put in the room with the hole,
the actor and I went into the other one. He was a young man about
twenty-eight years old, handsome and strong. Informed of the hole's
location, he not too pointedly moved to where he could be perfectly
viewed and had me take my place beside him. I frigged him. When his
prick held a good slope, he got to his feet, exhibited his tool to the
inspector, turned around, displayed his ass, raised my skirts and
showed my mine, knelt before me, teased my anus with the tip of his
nose, spread heartily, displayed everything with as much thoroughness
as delight, and discharged by frigging himself, the while keeping my
hinder skirts high and my ass squarely opposite the spy hole, in such
wise that he who stood posted on the other side of the wall
simultaneously beheld, at this decisive moment, both my bum and my
lover's wrathful device. If the latter was in seventh heaven, God
knows what was going on in the next room; my sister later told me she
had had a madman on her back who had sworn he'd never had as fine a
time as this, and after that her buttocks had been washed by a tide no
less fierce than the one that had burst over mine.

       "If that young man of yours truly had a good prick and pretty
ass," Durcet opinioned, "there was ample in the situation to provoke a
generous discharge."
       "It must then have been delicious," returned Duclos, "for his
engine was very long, quite thick, and his ass as soft, as sweetly
plump, as attractively formed as the god of love's."
       "Did you spread his cheeks?" the Bishop inquired. "Did you show
his vent to the inspector?"
       "Yes, your Lordship," said Duclos, "he displayed mine, I
displayed his, he presented it with incomparable suggestiveness."
       "I've been witness to a dozen such scenes," Durcet announced,
"which have cost me a fortune in fuck; there is nothing more delicious
to see or do. I refer to both: for it is just as pleasant to spy upon
someone as to want to be observed."

       Another individual, with approximately the same tastes, Duclos
went on, took me to the Tuileries some few months later. He wanted me
to accost men and frig them six inches from his face while he hid
under a pile of folding chairs; and after I had frigged seven or eight
passers-by, he settled himself upon a bench by one of the most
frequented of the paths, lifted my skirts from behind, and displayed
my ass to all and sundry, put his prick in the air and ordered me to
frig it well within view of half of Paris, the which, although it was
night, created such a scandal that by the time he most cynically
unleashed his fuck, more than ten people had gathered around us, and
we were obliged to dash away to avoid being publicly covered with
shame.
       When I related this adventure to Gurin, she laughed
approvingly and said she had once known a man in Lyon (where panders
enter into the trade at an early age), a man, I say, whose mania was
certainly just as unusual. He would disguise himself as a public
mercury, himself fetch in visitors to dally with the two girls he paid
and maintained for no other purpose, then he would conceal himself in
a corner to watch his client go to work; the girl, whose hire depended
upon her skill in these moments, would guide the libertine she had in
her arms and unfailingly give her employer a view of his prick and
ass, the sight of which constituted the one pleasure that agreed with
our false pimp's palate, the one that was able to loosen his fuck.

       Duclos having brought her recital to an early conclusion that
evening, the time that remained until supper was devoted to a few
choice lubricities, and as the example of the cynic had fired their
four daring brains, the friends did not isolate themselves in their
closets, but disported within clear view each of the other. The Duc
had Duclos strip off her clothes, had her bend and lean upon the back
of a chair and commanded Desgranges to frig him upon her comrade's
buttocks, in such wise that the head of his prick might graze Duclos'
asshole with each stroke. To that one was added a number of other
episodes which the proper presentation of our material forbids us from
disclosing at this stage; but the fact remains that the chronicler's
inferior vent was completely sprayed and that the Duc, handsomely
served and entirely surrounded, discharged to the tune of bellowings
and shouts which indicated to what a point his mind has been
stimulated. Curval had himself fucked, the Bishop and Durcet for their
part did passing strange things with both sexes; then supper was
served.
       After it, dances were held: the sixteen youngsters, the four
fuckers, and the four wives were able to perform three quadrilles, but
all the participants at the ball were naked, and our rous, indolently
reclining upon sofas, were deliciously amused by all the different
beauties one after another offered them by the divers attitudes the
dancers were obliged to strike. Messieurs had the storytellers at
their side, and these ladies manualized them rapidly or slowly,
depending upon the pleasure they were experiencing; but, somewhat
fatigued by the day's frolickings, no one discharged, and each went to
bed to acquire the strength needed for all the following day's new
infamies.
