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and she it is who has sole control over the prostitute's
    movements. All the earnings go to her, and the redemption money
    when redemption takes place. The 'brothel-keeper' is a creation
    of the Government, and the term has, I think, led to some
    misappreciation of the actual state of things. It is true that,
    being registered by the Government, she becomes in a manner
    responsible for the proper conduct of the establishment, but the
    property in the girl does not rest in her, except in the case of
    the two or three girls to whom she may herself be pocket-mother,
    that is to say, whom she may herself have purchased. The
    pocket-mothers are the real proprietresses of their purchases, and
    a brothel-keeper would not regard herself as in any way connected
    with such girls, beyond the obligation devolving upon her of
    registering the inmates of the house of which she, as tenant or
    owner, was the proprietress. A Chinese brothel is in fact merely
    a collection under one roof of several different establishments,
    consisting of the pocket-mothers and their purchases, the
    pocket-mothers for the most part being the body-servants of their
    charges, and administering to their daily wants, though in reality
    their mistresses and their absolute owners."

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