"It is with no small
concern," writes an anonymous historian of Newgate, "that I am obliged to
observe that the women in every ward of this prison are exceedingly worse than
the worst of the men not only in respect to their mode of living, but more
especially as to their conversation, which, to their great shame, is as profane and
wicked as hell itself can possibly be. But he does not come to see me since three days, even that these are
my affairs and one could think that he would tell it to me if there is news, no?’
‘When he has news to tell he will come, child, trust me,’ the old lady assured
her. pgdp. But, perhaps,
you'll first accompany me to my dwelling for a moment, that we may arrange
our accounts before we start. Her fingers found the lump she sought and, with a little effort, she
dragged out the black-wrapped foil. Ramage, by a hundred skilful hints had led her to
realize that the problem of her own life was inseparably associated with, and
indeed only one special case of, the problems of any woman’s life, and that the
problem of a woman’s life is love. "
At this juncture, two women, very smartly attired in silk hoods and cloaks,
appeared at the door of the Lodge. She liked the high, easy swing of the thing over its big
wheels, the quick clatter-patter of the horse, the passage of the teeming streets. She saw Lucy darkening her
doorstep and stood from the recliner. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster.
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