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"I shall tell you what for," broke in Gerhardt, still speaking in German. "Because she's a street-walker, that's what for. She goes and gets herself ruined by a man thirty years older than she is, a man old enough to be her father. Let her get out of this. She shall not stay here another minute." Bass looked about him, and the children opened their eyes.
-What! a robbery? you little thief, you little hussy, you dare to call me a thief, you little street-walker. You are going to pay me immediately, or I will hand you over to the police. Very well, call the police, if you wish; I ask for nothing better; I will relate what has occurred.
Booth could not help admiring the moment he saw her; declaring, at the same time, he thought she had great innocence in her countenance. Robinson said she was committed thither as an idle and disorderly person, and a common street-walker. As she past by Mr. Booth, she damned his eyes, and discharged a volley of words, every one of which was too indecent to be repeated.
His Katusha Maslova, as she is more familiarly known in Resurrection is a far less appealing figure than the street-walker Sonia in Dostoïevsky's Crime and Punishment. The latter lives, while poor Maslova, a crude silhouette in comparison, as soon as she begins the march to Siberia is transformed into a clothes-horse upon which Tolstoy drapes his moral platitudes.
Calling himself a "proletarian of letters" this tender-hearted man denied being a psychologist which pre-eminently he was: "They call me a psychologist; it is not true. I am only a realist in the highest sense of the word, i. e., I depict all the soul's depths." If he has shown us the soul of the madman, drunkard, libertine, the street-walker, he has also exposed the psychology of the gambler.
It was the face of a street-walker, bloated and purplish, the poor pretence of colour gone, the haggard lines showing, all the awful life of her stamped upon it; yet in the lamplight, upturned in its helplessness, sealed with the sleep that had come at last to her, sore-footed, as softly as it might have come to a little baby falling asleep amid its play, there enhaloed it the incarnation of triumphant suffering.
She wore a light gown, and, for the first time, he noticed that her attire appeared remarkably showy, like a street-walker. She twisted her body about on the pavement, staring provokingly at the men who came along, and raising her skirt, which she clutched in a bunch in her hand, much higher than any respectable woman would have done, in order to display her lace-up boots and stockings.
She must go out! out!! out!!! She has become a street-walker, that's what she has become. She has set herself right to go to hell. Let her go. I wash my hands of the whole thing. This is enough for me." He made as if to go off to his little bedroom, but he had no sooner reached the door than he came back. "She shall get out!" he said electrically. "She shall not stay under my roof! To-night!
Oh you carrion! They sprang at each other, clutching at each other's hair; they fought in the narrow passage, screaming themselves hoarse all the time. 'You street-walker, you loafer... there! that's one for you! There's one for my fifteen acres, and for all the wrong you have done me, you dirty dog! 'For the love of God, you women, leave off, leave off!
"Perhaps that's what is wrong with the business, then." "Have you any idea," inquired Edmonds softly, "what the philosophy of the Most Ancient Profession is?" Banneker shook his head. "I once heard a street-walker on the verge of D.T.'s she was intelligent; most of 'em are fools express her analytical opinion of the men who patronized her.
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