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The Star in the West
The Star in the West (1907), PDF p. 122
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THE HARLOT
115
- Won't you
has
enjoyed
her , now
shoves
her aside
“ with
the
dishes
and the wine ," a thousand
a year , and a flat in
Mayfair -
quite a lucky girl !
Two years later a woman shouts out ,
come
with
me , ducky ? ”
This
is Molly ; a morphia
maniac also appears ,—this is Percy .
Glenstrae is now
the President of the Children's
Special Service Mission
-suffer the little children , etc.
And Angela the head of
a Zenana Mission .
“ Think of the poor heathen kept
in such
terrible
seclusion
! ” The end
is as farcical as
Society
herself .
Angela
is
suffocated
in
sulphuric
acid whilst
washing
off her
enamel , and
Glenstrae
sawn into thirty -eight pieces
whilst playing with little
children , by stumbling
against
a circular
saw .
· His
Lordship
was very fond of children , as you
may
know .
It
seems
he was pursuing —it
is , I am
told , an innocent
child's
game !—one
of the
factory
hands ; and- he stumbled .”
Molly is pronounced
virgo intacta by twenty -three
eminent
physicians ,
and
marries
Percy
who
is of
course quite reforme
Farewell , you filthy -minded people !
I know a stable from a steeple .
Farewell , my decent -minded friends !
I know arc lights from candle ends .
Farewell ! a poet begs your alms,
Will walk awhile among the palms.
An honest
love, a loyal kiss ,
Can show him better worlds than this ;
Nor will he come again to yours
While he knows champak
- stars from sewers .
3
1 Why Jesus Wept , vol .
iii,
p
.
48
.
2
Twenty
-
three Sanhedrin judges
.
3
The
satire
is
against
the
belief that conversion
can
put
the clock back
,
+
Ibid
.
vol
.
iii
,
p
.
50
.
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