Give a heathen charity and he remains a heathen, and the charity is soon gone; but only give him a contract of employment and you have pointed him on the road towards eternal life -’

It is a curious thing with whores that one pays a premium for inexperience and lack of ability - surely the only profession in which this is the case.

the slums of Fitzrovia,

Brewer was a politician: he had known the best way to make his appeal to me.

Molly Allen, fearless as ever.

J. Walter Thompson.’ Pinker grimaces. ‘Quite why Americans have to put both dates and initials in the wrong order I shall never know.

‘I am no longer seeking your agreement. I am overruling you. This is my decision, and as your husband I expect you to abide by

We celebrated the artificial above the natural, the artistic above the practical, and, Oscar Wilde notwithstanding, laid claim to extravagant vices which few of us had any intention of actually indulging.

he was more relaxed when he was in motion, as if the furious headlong impetus of the train somehow soothed his own restless need for activity.