Impressions and comments / Havelock Ellis.

  • Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
Date:
1926
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Credit: Impressions and comments / Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS July 24, 1912.—I looked out from my room about ten o'clock at night. Almost below the open window a young woman was clinging to the flat wall for support, with occasional floundering movements towards the attainment of a firmer balance. In the dim light she seemed decently dressed in black ; her handker¬ chief was in her hand ; she had evidently been sick. Every few moments some one passed by. It was quite clear that she was helpless and distressed. No one timied a glance towards her—except a poHceman. He gazed at her searchingly as he passed, but without stopping or speaking ; she was drunk, no doubt, but not too obtrusively incapable ; he mercifully decided that she was of no immediate pro¬ fessional concern to him. She soon made a more violent effort to gain muscular control of herself, but merely staggered round her own