[Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookVandover and the Brute CHAPTER Seven 29/51
Why, man alive, how can they help but know? Look at those that have brothers--don't you suppose they know, and if they know, why don't they use their influence to stop it? I tell you if any one were to write up the lives that we young men of the city lead after dark, people wouldn't believe it.
At that party that Henrietta Vance gave last month there were about twenty fellows there and I knew every one, and I was looking around the supper-table and wondering how many of those young fellows had never been inside of a disreputable house, and there was only _one_ beside Dolly Haight!" Young Haight exclaimed at this, laughing good-naturedly, twirling his thumbs, and casting down his eyes with mock-modesty. "Well, that's the truth just the same," Vandover went on.
"We young men of the cities are a fine lot.
I'm not doing the baby act.
I'm not laying the blame on the girls altogether, but I say that in a measure the girls are responsible.
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