The Heart Is a Burial Ground by Tamara Colchester

Author:Tamara Colchester [Colchester, Tamara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471165733
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Rue de Lille, 1926

‘I visited a place last night called the House of All Nations.’

‘What’s it for?’

‘Where people go to buy love. And pain, of course. There’s a Persian room, a Russian room, Turkish, Japanese, Spanish – not to mention the room King Edward used to use, and a bathroom with mirrored walls and mirrored ceilings.’

‘Why are they mirrored?’

‘So you can keep an eye on things. I talked to the Madame and caught a glimpse of the thirty harlots waiting in the salon. There was a very lost-looking blonde hugging her knees. And there was a flogging post where men come to whip young girls . . .’

‘Why?’

‘Because love hurts.’

‘Is the Madame married?’

‘To half of Paris.’

‘What questions did you ask her?’

‘How many men a day? Average one hundred and fifty.’

‘How much does it cost to love there?’

‘Fifty francs for ten minutes, one hundred for an hour, three hundred for all night.’

‘Do they really whip the girls, Harry?’

‘Half to death, Rat.’

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