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...days later an outraged posse arrived at Susanna Wells's popular brothel in Enfield Wash (a section of London), house they found a raffish crew: susanna Wells herself; Sal Howit, her daughter; a young whore called Virtue Hall; a laborer and his tippling wife; and a hideous old gypsy named Mary Squires. But for all its ominous air, the house failed to match Elizabeth's description. The only room that could possibly have been her "empty loft" was thick with ancient, unbroken cobwebs. One window was boarded, but there was another not even latched. There were no footprints...
...Dorset on the day of the crime, but there were as many who were willing to swear they had seen her at Enfield. Conflicting evidence was further confused by the fact that eleven days had been dropped from the calendar not long before. But when Virtue Hall, the little whore, testified to the truth of Elizabeth's story, the case was finished. Mary Squires was sentenced to hang...
...Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance. A persistent troublemaker, she called the young women "bitch" and "whore" to their faces. Most of the other prisoners just grew thinner and more depressed...
Spirit v. Ghost. Still Time to Die is often frankly bitter, often overemotional, occasionally theatrical (in phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...
Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He wears a shamelessly new leather coat, lives in scandalous plenty-she told me they even had meat and wine and sugar, and he shoots people by the dozen. They have no home life...