The things we do!

"
"Simple certainly," says Mr. P., with a shrug of the shoulders.
"A simpleton of twenty is better than a roue of twenty. It is better not
to have thought at all, than to have thought such things as must go
through a girl's mind whose life is passed in jilting and being jilted;
whose eyes, as soon as they are opened, are turned to the main chance,
and are taught to leer at earl, to languish at a marquis, and to grow
blind before a commoner. I don't know much about fashionable life. Heaven
help us (you young Brummell! I see the reproach in your face!) Why, sir,
it absolutely appears to me as if this little hop-o'-my-thumb of a
creature has begun to give herself airs since her marriage and her
carriage. Do you know, I rather thought she patronised me? Are all women
spoiled by their contact with the world, and their bloom rubbed off in
the market? I know one who seems to me to remain pure! to be sure, I only
know her, and this little person, and Mrs. Flanagan our laundress, and my
sisters at home, who don't count.


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