- The Adventures She Was Witness Of Made Her, Indeed, More
Knowing Of The World, But Were Far From Corrupting Those
Excellent
morals she had received from nature, and had been so well improved by a
strict education, that she not
Only loved virtue for its own sake, but
despised and hated vice, tho' disguised under the most specious
pretences.
Her youth, beauty, and a certain sprightliness in her air, was too
engaging to be in the house of such a woman as mrs. C - - ge, (for so
this court-milliner was called) without being very much taken notice of;
and tho' most of the gentlemen who came there had some particular object
in view, yet that did not hinder them from saying soft things to the
pretty Louisa as often as they had opportunity. Among the number of
those who pretended to admire her was mr. B - - n, afterwards lord F - - h;
but his addresses were so far from making any impression on her in
favour of his person or suit, that the one was wholly indifferent to
her, and the other so distasteful, that to avoid being persecuted with
it, she entreated mrs. C - - ge to permit her to work above stairs, that
she might be out of the way of all such solicitations for the future,
either from him or any other. This request was easily complied with, and
the rather because she, who knew not the strength of her journey-woman's
resolution, nor the principles she had been bred in, was sometimes in
fear of losing so great a help to her business, by the temptations that
might be offered in a place so much exposed to sight.
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