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death, she left her paternal home to reside with a relative somewhere in the far West," the unidentified chronicler reported.
“We heard of her but a few days ago—but not as the gay and beautiful girl described in a preceeding page; but on the contrary, a poor, penitent, heart-broken woman.”
The author saw a message in her fate: it is always the daughters of society who are doomed to degradation and misery for prostitution rather than the villainous men who seduce and betray the poor beings.
“The philanthropist has often asked, ‘Is there no remedy for this?' We answer ‘None!’ unless society (and here we mean females in particular) exclude from their presence all men who are guilty of seduction or libertinism, or who have trifled with the sacred affection of their sex in any form. But, we fear, this is something to be prayed, rather than hoped for."
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
—Homer
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