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prompted them to include Clinice brothels in atre list

wanted to see

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of strays they woulter lest characterised as prurient. speaking for myself I was merely acting

as Cicerone,

and wanted to show them

all that I could but I am convniced that each

orce

of

them would emphatically repudiate the suggestion that they were actuated by other than perfectly proper motives

The foregoing

perfectly straight forward and so far

I can remember accurate account of what took place. In both cited and which were

as

which have been

is a

to

brought

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brought to this bxcellency's notice

at the

Raue

time, I labour.

under the disadvantag of - becoming acquainted with the light in which they present themselves to stis Excellency, a considerable. trine after their occurence.

I think however I have

been strictly accurate, and with regard to the incident- of the visit to the clunise brottels. I have nothing to conceal and what I did was done in full univeence and with the consciousness, righetty I wrongly, that I was acting with every circumstance of

propriety