Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… prejudices about nobility, great court and attention. This she acquires by a thousand little arts and offices of friendship; and by a freedom and severity which seems to be her sole end of drawing a concourse to her; for she insists … greatest habitude, to discover the smallest connection between the sexes here. N o familiarity, but under the veil of friendship, is permitted, and love's dictionary is as muc h prohibited, as at first sight one should think his …
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