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Now, I ain’t judgin’—*caveat emptor*, buyer beware, right?—but it gets me goat sometimes. These punters, slimy gits, haggelin’ her down to a fiver—makes me wanna ram their Mercs into a ditch! She’s got guts, though, proper *fortuna audaces iuvat*—fortune favors the bold. Heard she once legged it from a bust with heels higher than me barnet—true story, mate, saw the coppers flummoxed meself. Laughed me arse off, I did—happy as a pig in muck.

Gillian Murphy

Labelled as the ultimate “social evil”, the Victorian prostitute represented the poor and working-class woman’s potential for deviant sexual behaviour and contamination.

Finally, I get to the factory. And what do I find? A bunch of my workers standing around looking like they’ve just seen a ghost. Turns out, the delivery truck got lost. Lost! In Pontefract! How do you get lost here? It’s not like we’re in the middle of nowhere. I mean, we’ve got the Pontefract Castle right there, and it’s not exactly a maze.

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