As she hoisted her skirts near her waist, she thought ruefully of the last time she had worn such an elaborate gown, sometime near 1910 when petticoats were still considered hip everyday garb. I have two Malay clerks in the store; but I'm obliged to have a white man to watch over them, or they'd clean me out. You have never felt the hearts of all hardened against you; have never heard the jeer or curse from every lip; nor endured the insult and the blow from every hand. Her personal maidservant, the first she had ever had in her life, was joyful for her. I have a weapon—a knife—and if you attempt to open the door, will plunge it to my heart. It is my business to know most people. Laughed at me, then. The gulf between rich and poor was perhaps greater in France, but by all accounts it was not the canaille who were responsible for the present turmoil. If ever I could bring myself to ask you any favour, I would ask you to forget even as I have forgotten. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue.
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