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"'Cast off by my son! No, by my best life, dear mother, it is not so! But by your son's, your son's May all murderesses get the torment they deserve!" With these words Yeobright went forth from the little dwelling.
The most, perhaps, that can be hoped is that they will in the long run take the wind out of the sails of the glorified adulteresses and murderesses which at present seem the latest and most successful efforts of feminine art. About the strongest propensity in human nature, apart from the purely personal instincts, is the propensity to interfere.
The last three months of my stay in San Francisco I cut out all the pictures of pretty girls from three newspapers. They included all kinds of women society, club, athletic, college, highbrow, low-brow; highway-women, burglaresses, forgeresses and murderesses. I have just counted those pictures three hundred and fifty-four and all beautiful.
"If I found a part of the social edifice that had to be blown to pieces, I might." "Take care that you don't involve us all in the crash. Meantime, what is the rest of your editorial page; a species of sedative to lull their minds? Who is Evadne Ellington?" "One of our most prominent young murderesses." "And you let her sign a column on your page?" "Oh, she's a highly moral murderess.
But you may remember, that in the former portions of our story, we made a slight allusion to one Sophia Franklin. She, excellent young lady! shall redeem us from the imputation of total depravity. Her virtue and goodness shall illumine our dark pages with a celestial light even though her mother and sister were murderesses!
"'Cast off by my son! No, by my best life, dear mother, it is not so! But by your son's, your son's May all murderesses get the torment they deserve!" With these words Yeobright went forth from the little dwelling.
In Lombroso's work "The Female Offender" he notices: Normal Women Criminal Women Receding foreheads 8 per cent. 11 per cent. Enormous lower jaws 9 " 15 " Projecting cheek bones 14 " 19.9 " Murderesses 30 " " ears 6 " 9.2 " Flat nose 40 " Thieves 20 " Normal Criminal Regular external ear 65 per cent. 54 per cent.
Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Catharine de' Medici, Mrs. Manning, and the old-fashioned murderesses in novels, are all of the muscular, black-brigand type, with more or less of regal grace superadded according to circumstances; and it would be thought nothing but a puerile fancy to suppose the contrary of those whose personal description is not already known.
Once he asked me if I had the faintest idea how many wives have killed strong and healthy husbands in order that they might wed the men they loved better. If murderesses can do that, said he, why should I hesitate, when there could be no such thing as murder in my—oh, it was too terrible! Thank God, he thinks better of me now than he did on the day he married me.
They are even worse than the men, for of the hundred and fifty there are a hundred and twenty-five murderesses, and of the others twelve are classed as vagabonds, and I suppose most of these are murderesses too. Out of the two thousand men there are about six hundred and seventy murderers.
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