If He Is
Detected In These Efforts Of Treachery, And Reproached With His
Ingratitude, He Impudently Declares, That What He Had Done Was No
More Than Simple Gallantry, Considered In France As An
Indispensible Duty On Every Man Who Pretended To Good Breeding.
Nay, he will even affirm, that his endeavours to corrupt your
wife, or your daughter, were the most genuine proofs he could
give of his particular regard for your family.
If a Frenchman is capable of real friendship, it must certainly
be the most disagreeable present he can possibly make to a man of
a true English character, You know, Madam, we are naturally
taciturn, soon tired of impertinence, and much subject to fits of
disgust. Your French friend intrudes upon you at all hours: he
stuns you with his loquacity: he teases you with impertinent
questions about your domestic and private affairs: he attempts to
meddle in all your concerns; and forces his advice upon you with
the most unwearied importunity: he asks the price of every thing
you wear, and, so sure as you tell him undervalues it, without
hesitation: he affirms it is in a bad taste, ill-contrived, ill-made;
that you have been imposed upon both with respect to the
fashion and the price; that the marquise of this, or the countess
of that, has one that is perfectly elegant, quite in the bon ton,
and yet it cost her little more than you gave for a thing that
nobody would wear.
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