‘Anne, you are very positive and self-opinionated, but you cannot--it is not possible--set up your judgment against mine on such a point. You, an inexperienced, prejudiced girl, a rustic with no knowledge of the world! What do you know about the man? Oh, I allow he is well enough to look at; he has had the usual amount of education, and so forth; but what do you _know_ about him? that is what I ask.’ ‘Stuff! you, a girl not much over twenty, know a _man_! Does he tell you, do you suppose, all the adventures of his life? Does he confess his sins to you? A young fellow that has been trained at a public school, that has been at the university, that has knocked about the world--is he going to c…
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