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rent, they conspire with someone living with her, and lend her money which is not to be repaid until the husband comes back. If in a month or afterwards letters are still few and far between, interest is at first extorted, and then interest is remitted and the repayment of the capital demanded.

The woman cannot repay it, there is no good of her borrowing the amount in the first instance. The mistress is well aware that she is unable to repay the loan, and accordingly inveigles her by fair words to enter a brothel, and sell her charms. Again, these mistresses, under the pretext of acting as a matchmaker, find a source of great gain. If she is an ordinarily good-looking woman, she is taught to faint and feign illness to arouse sympathy. They persuade themselves. When these women are at first determined to apply to someone to save them, but gradually becoming habituated to the life, they forget all about their resolve. None of these could occur in registered brothels.

But worse than the above are those rogues who meet pretty women in the street, and those lascivious women who, not content to live with their husband, induce women who have gone between, about their husband, to be pimps to find some suitable man for them. The man dares not go to the woman's home and who are desirous of remarrying, into brothels, and there by sweet words make the man choose a companion. Further, they despatch some of their gang, utterly bereft of all good feelings, to the country.

If their bad deeds were carried on so openly they would be easily detected, therefore they must enter into a league with the Keepers of houses of assignation in order to accomplish their aims.

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234 rent, they conspire with someone living with her, and lend her money which is not to be repaid until the husband comes back. If in a month or afterwards letters are still few and far between, interest is at first extorted, and then interest is remitted and the repayment of the capital demanded. The woman cannot repay it, there is no good of her borrowing the amount in the first instance. The mistress is well aware that she is unable to repay the loan, and accordingly inveigles her by fair words to enter a brothel, and sell her charms. Again, these mistresses, under the pretext of acting as a matchmaker, find a source of great gain. If she is an ordinarily good-looking woman, she is taught to faint and feign illness to arouse sympathy. They persuade themselves. When these women are at first determined to apply to someone to save them, but gradually becoming habituated to the life, they forget all about their resolve. None of these could occur in registered brothels. But worse than the above are those rogues who meet pretty women in the street, and those lascivious women who, not content to live with their husband, induce women who have gone between, about their husband, to be pimps to find some suitable man for them. The man dares not go to the woman's home and who are desirous of remarrying, into brothels, and there by sweet words make the man choose a companion. Further, they despatch some of their gang, utterly bereft of all good feelings, to the country. If their bad deeds were carried on so openly they would be easily detected, therefore they must enter into a league with the Keepers of houses of assignation in order to accomplish their aims.
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rent, they conspire with some one

living with her, and lend her money which is not to be

repaid hit the husband comes back. If in a

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nor afterwards letters are still few-

and far between, interest is at first extorted,

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