The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"

De Becker, J. E. (Joseph Ernest) · 1929

This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character (e.g. _some italic text_). For other changes see the Transcriber’s Note at the end of the text. “Virtuous men have said, both in poetry and classic works, that houses of debauch, for women of pleasure and for street-walkers, are the worm-eaten spots of cities and towns. But these are necessary evils, and if they be forcibly abolished, men of unrighteous principles will become like ravelled thread.”…

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