 | Rick Allen - Literary Collections - 1998 - 268 pages
...offer any towards her. 'Is it possible,' said he, after this pause, 'that you are virtuous?' . . . He then took the liberty of reminding her that a young...acquaintance of one woman of ill fame than by receiving the visits of twenty men, though professed libertines. To which she replied that for the future she would... | |
 | Christopher Flint - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 416 pages
...on to warn her, reiterating the advice of Trueworth, to regulate her company more carefully. "He ... took the liberty of reminding her, that a young lady...more endangered her reputation, by an acquaintance with one woman of ill fame, than by receiving the visits of twenty men, though professed libertines.—To... | |
 | Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio - History - 2000 - 386 pages
...toward a stigmatized, unfortunate person. She is told by a man who has tried to take her to a bagnio that "a young lady more endangered her reputation...acquaintance of one woman of ill fame, than by receiving the visits of twenty men, though professed libertines" (211). Such moments are strikingly ironic 33 but... | |
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He then took the liberty of reminding her that a young lady more endangered her reputation by an acquaintance of one woman of ill fame than by receiving the visits of twenty men, though professed libertines. 