midnight
Ah Frank , Frank ! thou hast gone too far to retract now ! Thy hand plays with those ivory globes -- thy lips kiss those rounded shoulders , and that beauteous neck -- thy brain becomes dizzy , thy senses reel , and thy amorous soul bathes in a sea of rapturous delight ! * * * * * Truly , Frank Sydney , thou art a pretty fellow to prate about sallying forth at midnight to do good to thy fellow creatures ! -- Here we find thee , within an hour after thy departure from thy home , on an ` errand of mercy , ' embraced in the soft arms of a pretty wanton , and revelling in the delights of voluptuousness . We might have portrayed thee as a paragon of virtue and chastity ; we might have described thee as rejecting with holy horror the advances of that frail but exceedingly fair young lady -- we might have made a saint of thee , Frank . But we prefer to depict human nature _ as it is _ not _ as it should be _ ; -- therefore we represent thee to be no better than thou art in reality .