Edward Sellon - Phoebe Kissagen ,or the remarkable adventures, schemes wiles and devilries of une maquerelle

Then everything went to the devil. Captain Jackson would get drunk; Captain Jackson would beat the watch; Captain Jackson would bring strange whores into the house. He was in debt; creditors came there and dunned him. He was bully, so the men of quality, who used to go there, gave the house up. He was a gamester, and soon squandered all Phoebe's money (except, indeed, her little annuity, which he did not know of).

As for Chloe, when she saw how matters were going, she came to me, and I managed to withdraw her share in the Bagnio, Phoebe purchasing both it and her share in the freehold, and Chloe retired with a fortune of H 20,000 or more in Consols.

With Phoebe, things went on from bad to worse, her house got an ill name. The Captain mortgaged fine freehold, debts increased, the furniture was seized, and the house closed. A few days after this climax, her husband was carried to his lodgings in a dying condition, having been run through the fangs in a duel with a gentleman, whom he had insulted at a hall in St.James's the night before.

This was indeed a happy release for poor Phoebe,who although ruined by her reckless husband, was soon set up in a new house by some of her old patrons, where Chloe was only too glad to rejoin her.

Phoebe and Chloe are now the joint mistresses of the too celebrated White House in Soho, and some times honor me with their confidence, by asking my advice how to invest their rapidly increasing fortune; I am also the custodian of all their title deeds and curious correspondence, and it is their joint wish that I should some day (when they have finally retired) bring out a short memoir of their famous establishment and enlighten the world as to the " and revelries there carried on.

I am, my dear Sir,

Your faithful servant,

Reginald Randall.

Temple, 17th. August, 1742.

To Frederic Mosscock Esq,

Park Lane.