Evelina Flashcards
I am too ignorant and inexperienced to conduct myself
With propriety in this town where everything is new to me
So strangely, so disgracefully
Altered in the situation
I lived with these to whom even civility
Is unknown and decorum a stranger
She thinks it proper to be of the opinion that
Birth and virtue are one of the same thing
Her mind, feeble and unsteady, sinks
Beneath the influences of rank
I only know she is
Kind of a toad-eater
Since I
Am nobody
Women have both into recommend her but beauty and good nature;
In everything else, she is either impertinent or unnatural
I have deviated from the open path, which from
My earliest infancy, I was taught to tread
In studying the acquire the knowledge of the other sex,
She has lost all the softness of her own
I hope she has always met with that respect
In my home which is so much her due
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is
Once the most beautiful and the most brittle things
Those who possess money squander it
Away in a manner so infinitely absurd
I am unused
To this world
I can’t help laughing at the
Thought of seeing London in a few weeks
We would have spoken of settlement, but
I assured him, I was almost ignorant of the word
I may have been urged on by a passion the
Most violent that even warmed the hearts of men
The prevalence of fashion makes
The greatest absurdities go unnoticed
My intentions are never wilfully
Blameable, yet I am perpetually
The simplicity of your education alike so you unfit for the
Thorny paths of the great and busy world
Heaven, to be seen in the company
Of two women with such character
True wit is nature to advantage, dressed what
Oft was thought, but never so well expressed
