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Carol
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What did this favoured child of fortune lack that she could be reached by such a plea, when her whole being revolted from the nature of the task he offered her? …[T]he consent he had thought dependent upon sympathetic interest could be reached much more readily by the promise of large emolument, —and he owned to a feeling of secret disappointment even while he recognized the value of the discovery.
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Carol
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”I—I’m not used to sights like this,” stammered the scrub-woman, stumbling awkwardly to her feet, and looking as if her few remaining wits had followed the rest on an endless vacation.
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Carol
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And if people were condemned for their motives, would there be enough hangmen in the world?
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Carol
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[Catherine Louisa] Pirkis’s was the era of criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who argued that criminal inclinations resulted from hereditary atavism that was literally visible in features such as large chins and fleshy lips; and of sexologist Havelock Ellis, who insisted that female criminals exhibit a degenerate abundance of body hair and other masculine traits, as well as “pathological” sex organs.
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Carol
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The mask was what is called abroad a masque de luxe, a mask which, while it changes the countenance sufficiently to prevent recognition, is made so delicately that the material, crape, admits of free perspiration — a condition which inferior masks will not admit.
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Carol
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Every man who has lived with his eyes open has come across human beings who concentrate within themselves the most wonderful contradictions. Here is a man who lives so scampishly that it is a question if he ever earnt an honest shilling, and yet he would firmly believe his moral character would be lost did he enter a theatre…
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Carol
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Probably the iconic vehicle for fans of detective fiction is the two-wheeled hansom cab that seated a pair of passengers behind a low double door that guarded their shoes and clothes from mud and excrement flung up by the horse’s rear hooves….During the heyday of Sherlock Holmes, more than [8000] hansom cabs served London and its environs — and the last was gone by 1933.
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Carol
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Not until 1842 was there a detective bureau — the ancestor of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) still exists in England - to decipher clues and investigate the crimes discovered or interrupted by uniformed officers.…In 1905 a woman was hired in a position that seems to have merged truant officer, prison warder, and counselor. Not until 1918 did the London police hire the first women as officers.
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In 1829, eight years before the reign of Victoria began, Parliament passed the Metropolitan Police Act, which replaced the antique plexus of watchmen and parish constables with a reasonably organized force….Because the police force was launched by popular home secretary Robert Peel, they were nicknamed peelers in Ireland and bobbies in England.
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right off the bat, the introduction was killer. looking forward to these stories!!!
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