"Judges and juries, the journals and the public, fancy these poor wretches, hunted down for their beauty, are different from their more fortunate sisters.

I've not found it so.

There's some womanhood left in every one of them, and there are manifold temptations and weaknesses in the lives of many who walk serenely in honor.

At the last, all men and women are much the same; only, once started on the downward path, not one in a thousand ever is checked! "This Irma is not such a bad woman; with a better chance she might have been some one's heart darling for all time.

The only thing I cannot see is how Braun killed this man so quietly." Both of the friends had discerned no more than the final trap.