The Case
Of Colonel Valentine Baker Obstructs That Argument,
For A Man Cannot Become An Officer In The British Army
Except He Hold The Rank Of Gentleman.
This person,
finding himself alone in a railway compartment with
an unprotected girl - but it is an atrocious story,
and doubtless the reader remembers it well enough.
London must have been more or less accustomed to Bakers,
and the ways of Bakers, else London would have been
offended and excited.
Baker was "imprisoned" - in a parlor;
and he could not have been more visited, or more overwhelmed
with attentions, if he had committed six murders and then
- while the gallows was preparing - "got religion" - after
the manner of the holy Charles Peace, of saintly memory.
Arkansaw - it seems a little indelicate to be trumpeting forth
our own superiorities, and comparisons are always odious,
but still - Arkansaw would certainly have hanged Baker.
I do not say she would have tried him first, but she would have
hanged him, anyway.
Even the most degraded woman can walk our streets unmolested,
her sex and her weakness being her sufficient protection.
She will encounter less polish than she would in the
old world, but she will run across enough humanity to make
up for it.
The music of a donkey awoke us early in the morning,
and we rose up and made ready for a pretty formidable
walk - to Italy; but the road was so level that we took
the train.. We lost a good deal of time by this, but it
was no matter, we were not in a hurry.
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