Her partner Pasha is a very queer and unhappy girl. She should
have been, long ago, not in a house of ill-fame, but in a
psychiatric ward, because of an excruciating nervous malady, which
compels her to give herself up, frenziedly, with an unwholesome
avidity, to any man whatsoever who may choose her, even the most
repulsive. Her mates make sport of her and despise her somewhat
for this vice, just as though for some treason to their corporate
enmity toward men. Niura, with very great versimilitude, mimics
her sighs, groans, outcries and passionate words, from which she
can never refrain in the moments of ecstasy and which are to be
heard in the neighbouring rooms through two or three partitions.
There is a rumour afloat about Pasha, that she got into a brothel
not at all through necessity or temptation or deception, but had
gone into it her own self, voluntarily, following her horrible,
insatiable instinct. But the proprietress of the house and both
the housekeepers indulge Pasha in every way and encourage her
insane weakness, because, thanks to it, Pasha is in constant
demand and earns four, five times as much as any one of the
remaining girls--earns so much, that on busy gala days she is not
brought out to the more drab guests at all, or else refused them
under the pretext of Pasha's illness, because the steady, paying
guests are offended if they are told that the girl they know is
busy with another.
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