pense incurred by her for the lover, and which was not approved of by her mother.
10th. Not going to parties and festivities in the houses of her friends for the want of presents to make to them, she having previously informed her lover of the valuable presents given to her by these very friends.
11th. Not performing certain festive rites under the pretence that she has no money to perform them with.
12th. Engaging artists to do something for her lover.
13th. Entertaining physicians and ministers for the purpose of attaining some object.
14th. Assisting friends and benefactors both on festive occasions, and in misfortune.
15th. Performing household rites.
16th. Having to pay the expenses of the ceremony of marriage of the son of a female friend.
17th. Having to satisfy curious wishes during her state of pregnancy.
18th. Pretending to be ill, and charging her cost of treatment.
19th. Having to remove the troubles of a friend.
20th. Selling some of her ornaments, so as to give her lover a present.
21st. Pretending to sell some of her ornaments, furniture, or cooking utensils to a trader, who has been already tutored how to behave in the matter.
22nd. Having to buy cooking utensils of greater value than those of other people, so that they might be more easily distinguished, and not changed for others of an inferior description.
23rd. Remembering the former favors of her lover, and causing them always to be spoken of by her friends and followers.
24th. Informing her lover of the great gains of other courtezans.
25th. Describing before them, and in the presence of her lover, her own great gains, and making them out to be greater even than theirs, though such may not have been really the case.
26th. Openly opposing her mother when she endeavors to persuade her to take up with men with whom she had been formerly acquainted, on account of the great gains to be got from them.
