Note 10 — Chapter I · THE REFLECTIONS OF A YOUNG LADY ON GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD.
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“And for that,” says she, “you may thank my aunt’s love of ease. She is desirous to pass her time agreeably in playing whisk[10] and brag with her friends, reading romances, or slandering her neighbours—not in looking after two young women that happen to be placed in her charge.”