The Broken Token
“If he had even half their money he’d own a good house with four or five hearths and live like a gentleman. Maybe they didn’t want to draw attention to themselves, he thought, although what they did was no worse than the way some merchants and businessmen acted.
They all ran strings of girls. Sometimes one of the lasses would leave without a word, but there was never a shortage of new blood arriving from the country, thinking they might make their fortune in Leeds. But no girl was going to m...ake money on her back for anyone but the man who ran her. Most of them would be lucky to survive to twenty-five.
After years in his job he knew all the pimps and procurers in the city. A few even seemed like decent folk, most treated their girls like objects, and some of the worst ones he could have happily killed – and would have, once or twice, if the Constable hadn’t stopped him.
Whores were a fact of life. There was no more getting rid of them than fleas.MoreLess
They all ran strings of girls. Sometimes one of the lasses would leave without a word, but there was never a shortage of new blood arriving from the country, thinking they might make their fortune in Leeds. But no girl was going to m...ake money on her back for anyone but the man who ran her. Most of them would be lucky to survive to twenty-five.
After years in his job he knew all the pimps and procurers in the city. A few even seemed like decent folk, most treated their girls like objects, and some of the worst ones he could have happily killed – and would have, once or twice, if the Constable hadn’t stopped him.
Whores were a fact of life. There was no more getting rid of them than fleas.MoreLess
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