However, even the name of the street was soon replaced
by another, more respectable one, in order to efface
even the memory of the former unpardonable times.
And all these Henriettas-Horses, Fat Kitties, Lelkas-Polecats
and other women—always naive and foolish,
often touching and amusing, in the majority of cases
deceived and perverted children,—spread
through the big city, were dissolved within it.
Out of them was born a new stratum of society—a
stratum of the strolling, street prostitutes—solitaries.
And about their life, just as pitiful and incongruous,
but tinged by other interests and customs, the author
of this novel—which he still dedicates to
youths and mothers— will some time tell.
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