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They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c
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“Having understood as much, I was rather astonished to find her so very lady-like! But she is really quite the gentlewoman.”
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They were shewn into a back sitting-room on the ground-floor, where a certain air of elegant untidiness denoted the lady-like superiority of Mrs. Smallwood.
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Ladies in English legend have been known to turn into foxes; but do so ladily, in a properly lady-like manner.
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