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Updated: June 19, 2025
Bulmer here refers to a venerable scandal. Frankly, monsieur, the little strumpet has some cause to, may I trouble you for the nut-crackers? a thousand thanks, since I have outwitted her more than once, both in diplomacy and on the battle-field. With me out of the way, I comprehend that France might attempt to renew the war, and our late treaty would be so much wasted paper.
The offending passage was that in which Borrow says, when describing the interior of the Mosque at Tangier: "I looked around for the abominable thing, and found it not; no scarlet strumpet with a crown of false gold sat nursing an ugly changeling in a niche."
"'You are nothing better than a street-walker. "'You are only a trollop. "'You are a regular strumpet. "And so on, and so on; a sailor could not have said more. "Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, and turned round. It was the other one, the fat woman who had fallen on to my wife with her parasol.
Many a man orders his life so that it is like a ship that sails with huzzas and bedizened with flags while a favouring breeze fills its sails, but comes back to port battered and all but waterlogged, with its canvas 'lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind. It is always a mistake to try to buy happiness by doing wrong.
The Duke of Aiguillon ousted Choiseul, by making himself the courtier of the strumpet Du Barry, and things appear to have slipped back. Then the old king died, and Aiguillon followed his accomplice into exile. Louis XVI. found his finances in disorder, his army and navy demoralized.
When Mrs Deborah, putting on the gravity of a judge, with somewhat more than his austerity, began an oration with the words, "You audacious strumpet!" in which she proceeded rather to pass sentence on the prisoner than to accuse her.
Do you realize what that means, Mr. Strumpet? It means " "Yollop, if you please."
Well, if you were to accept of this kind offer, and go with him, you would find 'au troisieme; a handsome, painted and p d strumpet, in a tarnished silver or gold second-hand robe, playing a sham party at cards for livres, with three or four sharpers well dressed enough, and dignified by the titles of Marquis, Comte, and Chevalier.
Casting at the angels before him the sweetest pair that ever set their feet on earth a murderous look of hatred, "Die, then, both of you!" he cried. "You, vile abortion, the proof of my shame and you," he said to Gabrielle, "miserable strumpet with the viper tongue, who has poisoned my house." These words struck home to the hearts of the two children the terror that already surcharged them.
It seems, however, that having contracted an acquaintance with a lewd and artful woman, who drew him into an excessive fondness for her, he yielded to the solicitations of Sherwood and his landlady, and took to such courses as they suggested, in order to supply himself with money for the entertainment of that strumpet who was his ruin.
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