Note 4 — I. Infamy as known to the Law and Secret Infamy; Panders and Courtesans.

To turn, for a moment, from these horrors, let us say they horrify the moral working-men who have undertaken the responsibilities of the family without selfish ideas conceived previously. These men generally give proof of a sentiment of honour, too often extinguished in the upper classes; but what is their state of mind when they are not able to guard their wives and daughters against a disgrace which is the daily bread of an insufficient labour-market? Their faces are then stern, their eyes vindictive; their heads droop, but they cherish in their hearts, against the peace of society, a profound hatred and projects of vengeance which are only too inveterate. Ah! let us dread the storms we are collecting over our heads, in a gloomy future; if we have not the energy to put down profligacy from a love of virtue, let us, at least, do it from considerations of its cost.