Autobiography, 1784 [ Places / Practices ]
… at; and my sometimes cold, some- times indignant, reception of their odd complimentary addresses, was received at first with most unmerited displeasure, and in a short time with admiration no less undeserved. Conjugal fidelity being a thing they had no conception of, and each concluding I kept … for some one else, nothing undeceived them but my strictly adhered-to resolution of never suffering a tete-a tete with any man whatever except my husband, and laughing with them in company, saying we inhabited a Casa Fidele, and should …
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