up and replied:  “You mind your own business, miss.  We find the rates and taxes, and the likes of you are paid out of ’em to wait on us."’” (Montagu Williams, Round London, p. 79.)

“The prostitute really loves her souteneur, notwithstanding all the persecutions he inflicts on her.  Their torments only increase the devotion of the poor slaves to their ‘Alphonses.’  Parent-Duchatelet wrote that he had seen them come to the hospital with their eyes out of their heads, faces bleeding, and bodies torn by the blows of their drunken lovers, but as soon as they were healed they went back to them.  Police-officers tell us that it is very difficult to make a prostitute confess anything concerning her souteneur.  Thus, Rosa L., whom her ‘Alphonse’ had often threatened to kill, even putting the knife to her throat, would say nothing, and denied everything when the magistrate questioned her.  Maria R., with her face marked by a terrible scar produced by her souteneur, still carefully preserved many years afterward the portrait of the aggressor, and when we asked her to explain her affection she replied:  ’But he wounded me because he loved me.’  The souteneur’s brutality only increases the ill-treated woman’s love; the humiliation and slavery in which the woman’s soul is drowned feed her love.”  (Niceforo, Il Gergo, etc., 1897, p. 128.)

In a modern novel written in autobiographic form by a young Australian lady the heroine is represented as striking her betrothed with a whip when he merely attempts to kiss her.  Later on her behavior so stings him that his self-control breaks down and he seizes her fiercely by the arms.  For the first time she realizes that he loves her.  “I laughed a joyous little laugh, saying ‘Hal, we are quits’; when on disrobing for the night I discovered on my soft white shoulders and arms—­so susceptible to bruises—­many marks, and black.  It had been a very happy day for me.” (Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career.)

It is in large measure the existence of this feeling of attraction for violence which accounts for the love-letters received by men who are accused of crimes of violence.  Thus in one instance, in Chicago (as Dr. Kiernan writes to me), “a man arrested for conspiracy to commit abortion, and also suspected of being a sadist, received many proposals of marriage and other less modest expressions of affection from unknown women.  To judge by the signatures, these women belonged to the Germans and Slavs rather than to the Anglo-Celts.”

Neuropathic or degenerative conditions sometimes serve to accentuate or reveal ancestral traits that are very ancient in the race.  Under such conditions the tendency to find pleasure in subjection and pain, which is often faintly traceable even in normal civilized women, may become more pronounced.  This may be seen in a case described in some detail in the Archivio