I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome.
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I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome.
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She was a thin, bony figure, measuring five feet and a half, and had been what is termed a shewy woman. From her first bringing out, at the age of sixteen, to the period we are speaking of, when she must be full thirty-six, her sole and undivided attention had been paid to the embellishments of her figure, and studying the most attractive personal graces.
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If you have no servant of your own (which I think it is ten to one you have not), contrive to kidnap some other person’s, when you have an opportunity—of course, the shewier his livery, the better for you—[…]
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Yet he is not likely to win her affections, if younger and shewier persons were placed before her.
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