DON'T WORRY MOTHER,
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HAILEY
RODRÍGUEZ
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The place reeked of vice and corruption and the dregs
of Parisian society in all its rottenness gathered there: cheats,
conmen and cheap hacks rubbed shoulders with under-age dandies,
old roués and rogues, sleazy underworld types once
notorious for things best forgotten mingled with other small-time
crooks and speculators, dabblers in dubious
ventures, frauds, pimps, and racketeers.
Cheap sex, both male and female, was on offer in
this tawdry meat-market of a place where
petty rivalries were exploited, and quarrels
picked over nothing in an atmosphere
of fake gallantry where swords or pistols at dawn
settled matters of highly questionable honor in the first place.
