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Updated: April 30, 2025
But a general view of the Code may be obtained from the following summary: No Female shall walk in any public place without continually keeping up her Peace-cry, under penalty of death. Any Female, duly certified to be suffering from St. Vitus's Dance, fits, chronic cold accompanied by violent sneezing, or any disease necessitating involuntary motions, shall be instantly destroyed.
One glimpse, one last and never-to-be-forgotten glimpse I had of that dull level wilderness which was now to become my Universe again spread out before my eye. Then a darkness. Then a final, all-consummating thunder-peal; and, when I came to myself, I was once more a common creeping Square, in my Study at home, listening to the Peace-Cry of my approaching Wife.
As soon as the sound of the Peace-cry of my departing Wife had died away, I began to approach the Stranger with the intention of taking a nearer view and of bidding him be seated: but his appearance struck me dumb and motionless with astonishment.
In the house of the Working Man or respectable Tradesman where the wife is allowed to turn her back upon her husband, while pursuing her household avocations there are at least intervals of quiet, when the wife is neither seen nor heard, except for the humming sound of the continuous Peace-cry; but in the homes of the upper classes there is too often no peace.
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