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Title: Evelina : or, the history of a young lady's entrance into the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
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Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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her; — but you are a low, dirty fellow, and I shant stoopto take no more notice of you. Dirty fellow! exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists,hark you, Mrs. Frog, youd best hold your tongue; for I must makebold to tell you, if you dont, that I shall make no ceremony of trip-ping you out of the window, and there you may He in the mud tillsome of your Monseers come to help you o%ut of it. Their increasing passion quite terrified us; and Mrs. Mirvan wasbeginning to remonstrate with the Captain, when we were allsilenced by what follows. Let me go, villain that you are, let me go, or Ill promise youIll get you put to prison for this usage. Im no common person,I assure you; and, ma joi, Ill go to Justice Fielding about you; forIm a person of fashion, and Ill make you know it, or my nameant Duval. I heard no more: amazed, frightened, and unspeakably shocked,an involuntary exclamation of Gracious Heaven 1 escaped me, and,more dead than alive, I sunk into Mrs. Mirvans arms. But let 40
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EVELINA me draw a veil over a scene too cruel for a heart so compassionatelytender as yours; it is sufficient that you know this supposed foreignerproved to be Madame Duval, — the grandmother of your Evelina! O, Sir, to discover so near a relation in a woman, who had thusintroduced herself! — what would become of me, were it not foryou, my protector, my friend, and my refuge ? My extreme concern, and Mrs. Mirvans surprise, immediatelybetrayed me. But, I will not shock you with the manner of her ac-knowledging me, or the bitterness, the grossness — I cannot other-wise express myself, — with which she spoke of those unhappy pasttransactions you have so pathetically related to me. All the miseryof a much injured parent, dear, though never seen, regretted, thoughnever known, crowded so forcibly upon my memory, that they ren-dered this interview — one only excepted — the most afflicting Ican ever know. When we stopt at her lodgings, she desired me to accompany herinto the house

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