Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… them at risk of further and fuller violations. Practices > Communication Keywords Conduct Conventions Dance Gender Kissing Propriety Touch In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte Montgomery, notes: ‘Dancing … ‘she seemed perfectly tired on any discourse and said so herself. I left her at past 4 and found an opportunity of kissing her’ (Matthews 250-251) . Three weeks later, he encountered her again at his brother’s. ‘She seemed very civil … to custom, gave me a kiss and her blessing. I would fain have eluded my aunts, as nothing can be so disagreeable as kissing before young men; however, they chose it should go round; and after them Mrs. O’Connor also saluted me, as did …
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