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There is a sort of frankness about the evils of Paris which robs them of much of the seductiveness of things forbidden, and with that frankness goes a certain cleanliness of thought belonging to things not hidden. London will do whatever Paris does.... The difference may be summed up in this: Paris practises its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practises both very seriously.