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who, had, no doubt, been a muitsai.
According
to the muitsai system in China she would,
after her marriage, be treated as a daughter
or semi-daughter of the family. All traces of
humiliation of having been a muitsai would be
wiped off or forgotten.
If her master, in his unwillingness to comply
with the conditions imposed by the registration
regulations, which would give him lots of
trouble, should restore her to her parents
she would have to return to her parents and
share their poverty. As an additional burden
to her family, she would be an unwelcome member
in her own home. She would be deemed by her
parents and relatives in the country as an
ill-luck person in that she had lost a
comfortable home and returned to poverty, not
through her own fault nor by the unkindness of
her master but by extraneous circumstances.
She would feel herself an outcast, neither wanted
at home nor in the house of her former master.
She would be left to her own devices to shift
for herself, in order to eke out a living
unguided, unguarded and uncared for by any one.
Thus in her youth and inexperience she would become a prey to human wolves.
To get
employment, a young girl who knows no one except
those in her former master's house would not
have an easy task.
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