CHAPITRE IX - Of the establishment of a girl of courtesan.

When the girl of a courtesan reaches ( affects ? ) the age of puberty, her mother has to gather ( reunite ? ) certain number of young people being, in some years near, the same age old as her ( it ? ), the same character and the same education, and to announce them her intention to give her ( it ? ) for a marriage of one year to the one who will make for him ( her ? ) presents that she will indicate.

Then, to fire their desires by the difficulty and the stranger, she will hold her daughter in private charter until there is a buyer at the specified conditions.

If most offering rest below her ( its ? ) demands, she ( it ? ) makes herself ( itself ? ) the supplement, in secret, so that the fiancé appears to have given all which was asked.

Either she can let her daughter get married herself in the private and as without him/her knowing and to say then that, having learnt him ( it ? ) afterward, she was not able to grant.

The girl also has to attract ( entice ? ) to her the sons ( threads ? ) of the rich inhabitants who are not the knowledge of his ( her ? ) mother; she ( it ? ) will meet with them in the classes ( courses ? ) of song, in the concerts and at private individuals; then she will make ask to her mother by a friend or a following one for the license to unite with the man whom she prefers.

When the girl of a courtesan is so given to a man, it remains with him one year at the end of which the marriage stops and the woman becomes free.

But yes, after, when she ( it ? ) is engaged ( opened ? ) with the other men ( people ? ), her first husband asks her ( it ? ) from time to time to come him ( it ? ) to see, she owes, without considering the earning that otherwise she would make in the moment, to go to cross ( spend ? ) the night with him.

What precedes also applies to the girls of bayadères; their mother has to give them for first husband a man who can be useful for him ( her ? ) of several manners [ 94 ].

When a girl attached since the childhood in the service of a house becomes pubère [95], his boss has to hold her ( it ? ) contained far from all the eyes, and when men ( people ? ) who knew her previously will ignite of desires for her because of the difficulty seeing her ( it ? ), he will grant ( tune ? ) him ( it ? ) in marriage to one of them who can give him ( her ? ) happiness and wealth.

[ Note 94: he ( it ? ) is the custom in the East where the courtesans give or rather so sell them girls for a temporary marriage as they become nubile. On the rib ( coast ? ) of Coromandel, in the English and French cities, the women of pariahs so sell their daughters at the time of the puberty, the price varies from 50 to 100 francs; the buyer keeps ( guards ? ) them as long as he wants him ( it ? ). Mostly it is the fully-licensed captain who makes a short stay; sometimes it is a bachelor fixed in the country and to which the woman gives children and becomes attached.]

[ Note 95: doubtless the girl of a native domestic, been born in the house and adopted. Generally, in East, the marriage frees ( franks ? ) a girl; in China, the boss has the obligation to marry her ( it ? ) when the moment came.]