Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.
- Alexander Walker
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and whom these soothing words failed to eon- sole, ‘there is, alas! this great difference between us—Monsieur C was your first lover—Mon- sieur R is my. last!’ Love, that. cordial, heart-in-heart kind of love which our English poets . have sometimes so beautifully depicted, is not to be foundin France. In every step ofa French amour, you are overpowered by words, you are adored, idolized; but in all the graceful positions [Mr.. Bulwer has too much of French feeling, to say ‘erimaces’] into which gallantry throws itself, as — amidst all the phrases it pours forth, there wants that quiet and simple air, that deep, and tender, and touching, and thrilling tone which tell you, beyond denial, that the heart your own yearns to is really and truly yours, The love which you find in France is the love made for society—not for solitude: it is that love which befits the dazzling salon, the satined boudoir; it is that love which mixes with intrigue, with action, with politics, and affairs ; it is that love which pleases, and never absorbs; which builds no fairy palace of its own, but which scatters over the trodden paths of life more flowers than a severer people find there.” Of courtezans in England, Colquhoun says that ‘‘In point of extent they certainly exceed credi- bility; but although there are many exceptions, the great mass (whatever their exterior may be)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095851_0372.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
