Moll Flanders

Question 1

My mother pleaded her belly

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And found quick with child

Question 2

I had with all there

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The common vanity of my sex

Question 3

I thought it was fine

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To be a gentle woman

Question 4

Women wanted courage to maintain

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Their ground and to play their part

Question 5

You may see how necessary it is for all women

Answer 5

To preserve the character of their virtue

Question 6

If a woman has no friend to communicate her

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Affairs to, and advise and assist her, she is undone

Question 7

Women’s rhetoric -

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I mean, that of tears

Question 8

Three pence will keep me, if

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You let me live with you

Question 9

Money now

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Recommends a woman

Question 10

I was more confounded with the money

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Than I was before with love

Question 11

I had money in my pocket and

Answer 11

Nothing to say to them

Question 12

Love had no share in

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The matter of marriage

Question 13

And what was still worse, the old

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Woman still had 22 shillings of mine in her hand

Question 14

I took care to lay up as much

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Money as I could for a wet day

Question 15

‘Because they will take me away

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And I can’t work housework!’

Question 16

In the provision they made for me, it was

Answer 16

My good hap to be put to nurse

Question 17

Took possession of a husband in very good circumstances, so

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That I had the chance of a very happy life

Question 18

Women were scarce allowed to enquiry after the character

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Or the estate of the person that pretended to her

Question 19

A gentleman very well dressed, who

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We pretended courted me

Question 20

I became as naturally pleased with the

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Place as if I had been born there

Question 21

I could not think of being a whore to

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One brother, and a wife to another

Question 22

My new mistress

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Exceeded the good woman I was with before

Question 23

What is left ‘tis hoped will not offend the

Answer 23

Chastest reader or the modern learner

Question 24

So certainly does self interest banish all manner of affection, as so naturally do

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Men give up honour, justice, humanity, and even Christianity, to secure themselves

Question 25

Give him a

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New case for life

Question 26

Though I was not much touched with the crime of it

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The action had made my husband even nauseous to me

Question 27

Being herself a very sober, pious woman, very

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House-wifely, clean, and very mannerly

Question 28

All the exploits of this lady of fame in her depredations of mankind stand

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As so many warnings to honest people to beware of them

Question 29

I have been told that in France, when any criminal is condemned, if they leave

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Any children, they are immediately taken into the care of the government

Question 30

We had frequent opportunities

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To repeat this crime

Question 31

If ever I had true repentance for a vicious and

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Abominable life for twenty-four past years, it was then

Question 32

In short, I committed adulterous and incest with him everyday in my desires, which, without doubt,

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Was as effectually criminal in the nature of the guilt as if I had actually done it

Question 33

I often reflected on myself how doubly criminal it was to deceive a man;

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But that necessity was my authority for it

Question 34

Oh let none read this part without seriously

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Reflecting on the circumstance of a desolate state

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A degree which I must,

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Admit, I never thought possible in me