Memoirs of Fanny Hill
A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text
Written as a series of letters from Fanny Hill to an unknown woman, justifying Fanny's choices through life as a "woman of pleasure."
etting into place so soon: but, as I afterwards came to know, these Beldams understood one another very well, and this was a market where Mrs. Brown, my mistress, frequently attended, on the watch for any fresh goods that might offer there, for the use of her customers, and her own profit.
Madam was, however, so well pleased with her bargain that fearing I presume, lest better advice or some accident might occasion my slipping through her fingers, she would officiously take me in a coach to my inn, where, calling herself for my box, it was, I being present, delivered without the least scruple or explanation as to where I was going.
This being over, she bid the coachman drive to a shop in St. Paul's Churchyard, where she bought a pair of gloves, which she gave me, and thence renewed her directions to the coachman to drive to her house in ------ street, who accordingly landed us at the door, after I had been cheered up and entertained by the way with the most plausible flams, without one syllable
