loud-crying

Updated: June 17, 2025

She would lose her high position and the respect of her friends; the newspapers would publish her shame to the world, pointing her out by name as the depraved woman who had betrayed her husband and driven him to murder and suicide; they would have her portrait in their columns; her name and crime would be hawked upon the street by loud-crying news-boys; sermons denouncing her would be preached in all the churches; her shame would be discussed everywhere in homes, shops, hotels, and bar-rooms in many cities.

W. C. (William Chambers) Morrow - The Ape, the Idiot & Other People