Vulgar words in Heart - A Social Novel (Page 1)
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In the nervous language of the Bible--(hear it, men and women, without shrinking from the words)--that poor girl was "the seed of the adulterer and the whore:" born in a brothel, amongst outcasts from a better mass of life--brought up from the very cradle amid sounds and scenes of utter vice (whereof we dare not think or speak one moment of the many years she dwelt continuously among them)--educated solely as a profligate, and ignorant alike of sin, righteousness, and a judgment to come--had she then a chance of good, or one hopeful thought of being better than she was?