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“Assure yourself that I desire nothing more ardently, than to pour forth my thanks at your feet, and to offer those vows which are so justly the tribute of your charms and accomplishments. […] I burn to tell you, in person, how much I am, my sweet girl, your grateful admirer, Orville.” (286-287)

They just don’t yearn like this anymore, man

Clement and Captain should be exiled from society for their highwaymen scheme because that, my friends, is men once again taking a joke too far at the expense of a woman.

“We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather, so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go, you will be frightened to hear it,— till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.” (43)

I feel your pain Evelina, 11pm is bedtime!