Trip 2227 of 5399 collection book39
Instances of his ignorance and presumption were quoted and many particulars feignedbook17 for the purpose of defamation so that our herobook25 was exactly in the situation of a horseman who in riding at full speed for the plate is thrown from the saddle in the middle of the race and left without sense or motion upon the plain. At every teatable his name was occasionally put to the torture with that of the vile creature whom he had seduced though it was generally taken for granted by all those female casuists that she must have made the first advances for it could not be supposed that any man would take much trouble in laying schemes for the ruin of a person whose attractions were so slender especially considering the ill state of her health a circumstance that seldom adds to a womans beauty or goodhumour besides she was always a pert minx that affected singularity and a masculine manner of speaking and many of them had foreseen that she would some time or other bring herself into such a premunire.... read all
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