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"But they are such very different things!"

"--That you think they cannot be coether"

"To be sure not People that ether People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour"

"And such is your definition of ht certainly, their rese; but I think I could place them in such a view You will allow, that in both, e of choice, woee of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty, each to endeavour to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own i towards the perfections of their neighbours, or fancying that they should have been better off with anyone else You will allow all this?"

"Yes, to be sure, as you state it, all this sounds very well; but still they are so very different I cannot look upon the to them"

"In one respect, there certainly is a difference In e, the man is supposed to provide for the support of the woreeable to the , their duties are exactly changed; the agreeableness, the compliance are expected from him, while she furnishes the fan and the lavender water That, I suppose, was the difference of duties which struck you, as rendering the conditions incapable of coht of that"

"Then I a, however, I must observe

This disposition on your side is rather alarations; and may I not thence infer that your notions of the duties of the dancing state are not so strict as your partner entleman who spoke to you just noere to return, or if any other gentle to restrain you fro as you chose?"

"Mr Thorpe is such a very particular friend of ain; but there are hardly three young men in the room besides him that I have any acquaintance with"