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of the afternoon promenade are mostly the wives and daughters of Villadom. They do not know how largely responsible they are for that nocturnal orgy of the streets when they are snug in their luxurious drawing-rooms. It is the fetish-worship of Respectability that makes thousands of women redundant, drives some to the streets, and condemns others to withered celibacy. Men realise that the Respectable daughters of Villadom are luxuries that they cannot afford to maintain, in early life, at least; and the _demi-monde_ know this, too. As Mr. W. R. Greg wrote:
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While the _monde_ has been deteriorating, the _demi-monde_ has been improving; as the one has grown stupider and costlier, the other has grown, more attractive, more decorous, and more easy. The ladies _there_ are now often as clever and amusing, usually more beautiful, and not infrequently (in external demeanour, at least,) as modest, as their rivals in more recognised society.
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