[Mrs. Warren’s Daughter by Sir Harry Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookMrs. Warren’s Daughter CHAPTER XI 37/39
"There!" said Mrs.Warren; "that's him, that's your father." They quickened their pace and were presently alongside him.
He flashed his great, grey eagle eyes for a contemptuous second on the face of Mrs.Warren, who was all of a tremble and could not meet the gaze.
Vivie, he scarcely glanced at as he strode towards a doorway which engulfed him, though the eyes she had inherited would have met his unflinchingly. * * * * * David Williams duly visited Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, and Buda-Pest.
Much of what he saw disgusted, even revolted, him, but he found few of his fellow-countrywomen held captive and crying to be delivered from a life of infamy.
On his return to England in the autumn of 1909, he published the results of his observations; but they had very little effect on continental public opinion. However Mrs.Warren in due course turned her two establishments into hotels that gradually acquired a well-founded character of propriety and were in time included amongst those recommended to quiet, studious people by first class tourist agencies.
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