You have devoted your four girls to the bottomless pit, and you are a scandal to every pure-minded man.

You are the corrupter of the youth of this city, and your name is a by-word throughout the kingdom wherever dissolute youths and outraged fathers are to be found." Here Mr.Meyer burst into tears, and murmured something to the effect that he did not know anything about it.
"With what a handsome family did not God bless you! and, sir, you have made it the laughing-stock of the world.

You have traded with the innocence, the love, and the spiritual welfare of your daughters; you have sold, you have bartered them away to the highest bidder; you have taught them that they must catch passers-by in the street with an ogle or a stare, that they must smile, laugh, and make love to men whom they see for the first time in their lives, that they must make money by lying!" The wretched man was understood to say, amidst his sobs, that he had done none of these things.
"And now, sir, you have one daughter left, the last, the prettiest, the most charming of them all.

When I used to visit at your house, sir, she was a little child no higher than my knee, whom every one loved, every one fondled.

Don't you remember, sir?
And now, sir, you would abandon her also.