Note 9 — I. Infamy as known to the Law and Secret Infamy; Panders and Courtesans.
Reading edition
Some years since, a wealthy foreigner offered a brothel-proprietress 10,000 francs (£400) for a young girl. She bought her from a greedy mother, who was to receive half the price of the sale, but the procuress disappeared after delivery of the girl, and receiving payment for her. The mother, disappointed of the part she agreed for, went to a lawyer with her case, but he declined to have anything to do with this unsavoury affair.