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 ; that I was too green and untam'd, having been scarce twenty-four hours in the house: it is the character of lust to be impatient, and his vanity arming him against any supposition of other than the common resistance of a maid on those occasions, made him reject all proposals of a delay, and my dreadful trial was thus fix'd, unknown to me that very evening. At dinner, Mrs. Brown and Phœbe did nothing but run riot in praises of this wonderful cousin, and how happy that woman would be that he would favour with his addresses: in short my two gossips exhausted all their rhetoric to persuade me to accept them, "that the gentleman was violently smitten with me at first sight that he would make my fortune if I would be a good girl, and not stand in my own light  that I should trust his honour  that I should be made for ever, and have a chariot to go abroad in,"  with all such stuff as was fit to turn the head