16909

Updated: May 31, 2025

You will see that he bears the number '16909, and that his envelope is blue. Had this gentleman ever had anything to do with the police, were he, to put it plainly, of the criminal class, this envelope would be yellow. As for the white envelopes, they, Monsieur le Senateur, have to deal with a very different sort of individual. We class them briefly under the general word 'Morals."

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