entered the main salon, O had a chance to admire Noelle’s gracefulness, and the success that she garnered as a result of that charm. The three men seated in the big leather armchairs, two of whom had a fair-haired girl seated at their feet, while Monique was seated at the feet of the third, paid no attention to any of the three-one of the blondes was a girl named Madeleine whom O recognized from her visit to Roissy the year before-but turned their heads and greeted Noelle. One of them called to her immediately, saying:
“Come over here and give me your pretty breasts.”
Noelle complied, leaning over the chair with her hands on the arms, her breasts at the level of the man’s mouth; she did so without the slightest hesitation, obviously happy to please him. He was a man of about forty, bald and ruddy complexioned-O could see his red neck which formed two little folds of fat just above the collar of his jacket-who reminded her of the pseudoGerman to whom Sir Stephen had given her the evening before; he did in fact resemble him.
The man who was with Monique moved over until he was behind Noelle, and ran one of his hands over her buttocks.
“Do you mind, Pierre?” he asked the first man.
“Don’t ask me, ask Noelle for permission,” he responded, then added: “But that really isn’t necessary, is it Noelle?”
“No,” Noelle said.
O looked at her: she was ravishing, with her neck and head thrown back the better to offer her breasts, and arching her back the better to offer her buttocks. Was it her own pleasure, the obvious pleasure that she herself derived at seeing herself the object of their eyes and their caresses, that aroused desire in others? Monique’s companion had made a sign to her to unbutton him, and O watched him grow erect between Noelle’s thighs. Finally, all three men possessed her one after the other, rose and black in the hollow of her thighs, all blooming and white as snow in her swirling red dress.
And it was she, immediately thereafter, and O-the latter because, as Pierre put it, “Let’s send the child, since she’s with her”-whom they unanimously picked out when a valet arrived to ask whether they could spare two girls who were needed in the bar.
“If she doesn’t get cracking soon’ said Pierre, “she’ll be rusty from lack of practice.”
IX
At Roissy, there were three gates. The part of the building to which one could not gain access without passing through one of these three gates constituted what was called, not without some degree of childish playfulness, the main enclosure. The only ones who were permitted access to it were the associates or, more simply, the members of the Club. This closed-in area consisted of-on the ground floor, to the right of a large vestibule (onto which one of the gates, the largest, opened)-the library a sitting room, a smoking room, a dressing room-bathroom; and to the left, the girls’ refectory and an adjoining room which served as the valets’ dormitory. A few rooms on the ground floor were occupied by the girls that members of the Club brought there, as O had been brought the previous year by Ren=E9. The other rooms on the floors above were occupied by Club members who were spending a short or longer period of time at Roissy. Within the confines of the restricted area the girls were only allowed to come and go accompanied by someone else; they were absolutely bound to the rule of silence, even among themselves, and to keeping their eyes lowered at all times; at all times, too, they were obliged to be bare-breasted, and more often than not to keep their skirts hoisted either in front or behind. One could do with them as one desired. No matter what a member did with them, no matter what demands he made upon them, the price was the same. A member could come three times a year or three times a week, stay for an hour or for a fortnight, simply have a girl strip for him or flog her till she was bleeding, the cost of the annual membership
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