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Births Deaths that privilege cannot be granted in my kingdom where husbands are by
as much as they please that I dishonour them by punishing their
infidelity."
"But, madam, dishonour rises in reality only from the fact of
although you are empress."
"I know.html">know.html">know.html">know.html">know that, but that is no business of yours, and I do not grant
notwithstanding the principle of virtue from which her argument had
which her executioners, the Commissaries of Chastity, committed with
streets of Vienna, they carried off and took to prison the poor.html">poor girls
honest living. I should like to know how it was possible to know
her miserable position, or that she was in search of someone disposed
would follow them at a distance. The police department kept a crowd
was impossible to know them; as a natural consequence, there was a
spy who had followed her, waited for her, stopped her as she came
looked uneasy, if she hesitated in answering in such a way as to
beginning by plundering her of whatever money or jewellery she
obtained. Vienna was, in that respect a true den of privileged
of some tumult a girl slipped in my hand a go/gold.html">gold watch to secure it
her up. I did not know the poor girl, whom I was fortunate enough to
compelled to more than one sacrifice in order to obtain her liberty.
was well worthy of a man's attention I did not ask her for anything
unmolested in the streets was to go about with their head bent down
dared not arrest them, because they might be on their way to church,
guilty of such a mistake.
Those low villains rendered a stay in Vienna very unpleasant to
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