CHAPTER II.
Preliminary remarks.—A dress-lodger.—Lucy.—Sweet
seventeen.—An impudent demand.—A row.—The bawd.—My watch
requisitioned.—Exit barred.—Bill.—Funking.—
Determination.—The poker and window.—Vici.—Apologies.—A
cautious retreat.—My revenge.—Lucy scared away.—Brighton
Bessie.—Washing by fire-light.—Friendly intimacy.—The
house in B.w Street.—Lascivious evenings.
I have read through the two volumes in print. There are typographical errors, the names of women and places are once or twice wrongly given or spelt, but the context corrects that, and it matters not. What is important is; that owing to the brevity with which some occurrences are told, they almost seem improbable; this is the result of not printing my narrative all through exactly as I wrote it. In the manuscript, ite
