propriety. So far
as our behaviour
was concerned not a word could
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be said against it, and if there was any objection: principe to our visiting the Brottiels, the Acting Registrar several had only to say
soat
the outret and we should not
have gove
nor
I would subunit therefore that I did neither knowingly
actually violate the law, that I did not induce a young badet to violate the law and that I was not well aware ite
that I was offending ebrong native feeling of the
Chinese who
were i
the Brother
Brothel; that while I can
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confidently assert that neither I nor the young
badet paid
the visit for purposes of prurient
curiosity only, Jam alsom morally certain that the otlar
with me gentlemen who were were not actuated by that, feeling either, and lastly, that I was not well aware that our visit was in the eyes
eyes of the bliniese a degradation to the wornen who were preeest.
Iny reasons for not being aware of these things are that such visits have been repeatedly paid by distinguished visitors, that offers in the service high in