Chapter 8 quotes Flashcards
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‘She was a fearless and familiar…
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…little thing, who asked disconcerting questions, mad precocious comments, and passed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish show-dance’
1
Q
‘She came rather…
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…late, one hand still ungloved, and fastening a bracelet about her wrist; yet she entered without any appearance of haste’
2
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‘It was not the custom in New York drawing rooms…
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…for a lady to get up and walk away from one gentleman in order to seek the company of another. Etiquette required that she should wait, immovable as an idol while the men who wished to come to her succeeded each other at either side’
3
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“have you forgotten that…
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…in our country we don’t allow our marriages to be arranged for us”
