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in detail whether they have been enticed, kidnapped or deceived or have given up their persons as a set off against debts, or been forced against their

will

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whether they adopt praïtitution.

own free will.

the (Registrar General's ) Office, they

are

of their

And although before they

taught by

their mistresses what answers to give to the questions put to them when they get there, still these

Mistresses

are

not altogether free from the fear

As

lase

They have

of sty brothels,

that the girls will not answer

In the

been Faught

There is

no such alarm, and therefore all

shose who leave their homes for the first time,

ana

desire

to exhibit their charms, are sure

to go first of all to live in

a.

My Brothel

for if any girl has been kidnapped, decseved

.....

enticed

aw ay

brothel the matter

For there she

An a

ear

be seen

is placed in a Registered

would easily become known,

by all. Whereas in

a sly brother, the is closely confined and it

is not easy for her to go abroad. Corn is.

well known that. She has become a prostitute, it

is impossible to warch for her from door to

so every mears of enquiry

From her friends and relatives. Again, when

to receive visitors, they'

door and

wonen. A re

are

is cas

Arst made

not altogether destitate of a sense of hame,

Aure

So come

out. But in

tk

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and is peetings of chastity suddenly arise within

the them and they abandon their intention,

way

been kidnapped or enticea in which they have

away is brothel, long association, makes them contented, and being influenced by those about them, they gradually depart from their principles of chaitity? When the Mistresses of Hy brothels see a women

of a respectable family, who is poor and has

not enough for her daily wants, or whose husband who happen not

has gone

abroad A hadi

and

to send her money

to have had timme enough to

her expenses, and the landlord is presura for

ten D