In comparing modern manners, o compliment ourselves upon t of gallantry; a certain obsequiousness, or deferential respect, o females, as females.
I s tuates our conduct, in teentury of te our civility, just beginning to leave off t practice of w male offenders.
I s to be influential, o t, t in England ill occasionally -- hanged.
I s, to be age by gentlemen.
I s, o pick up , ed. I s, able adepts in t, s upon it in places observed -- , to spread it over to age-coacanding up in t of a London tre, till s ion, ed at t ress; till one, t seems to , significantly declares quot;so , if stle younger and ; Place t rider, in a circle of tance, and you s seen a politer-bred man in Lothbury.
Lastly, I so believe t t, o be performed by women.
Until t day comes, I sed point to be any tional fiction; a pageant got up betain rank, and at a certain time of life, in w equally.
I so rank it among tary fictions of life, entions paid to age as to youto ures as to o coarse complexions as to clear -- to t as sy, a fortune, or a title.
I s to be sometleman in a to topic of female old age exciting, and intending to excite, a sneer: -- iquated virginity,quot; and suc;overstood ,quot; pronounced in good company, se offence in man, or shem spoken.
Josepreet-, and one of tors of to or, -- tern of consistent gallantry I ook me under er at an early age, and bestoo s and example is not mucion. It t I did not profit more. terian, and broug, gentleman of ime. one system of attention to females in t tall. I do not mean t inction. But sig in ties of a disadvantageous situation. I and bare-o a poor servant girl, reet -- in sucure of unforced civility, as neito embarrass ance, nor . ation of ter came before --tenderly escorting a market-, t it migess. to t o an ancient beggaro sristan, to tristans to defend t ill bloomed for hered and yellow cheeks.
in o tiful Susan instanley -- old instanleys daugon -- ual bac courtsold me, t reating ress ries -- to ed no repugnance -- but in tance . obtain from ackno in return. So resent s. set it doo caprice, for t littleness. ured on ttle better o expostulate erday, s s of dislike to tentions; t ss; t a young ion to expect all sort of civil to s a dose of adulation, s of insincerity, tle injury to y as most young t -- a little before -- s, in rating a young e to ted time, and s to ;As I am Miss Susan instanley, and a young lady -- a reputed beauty, and knoo be a fortune, -- I can speecleman if I s to ted up to for sort of compliments so my assistance; and I t, t if it o do me ermined not to accept any fine speeco t sex, to rongest claim and title to t;
I ty, and a just imes imagined, t train of courtesy, ions and beoely, os o ted mistress.
I ain tion of t Miss instanley s of consistent gallantry; and no longer ness ttern of true politeness to a empt, or rudeness, to a sister -- ter of ress -- t, or unfortunate -- still female -- maiden cousin. Just so muc as a es from ever condition placed -- -- so score; and probably ion, ages, not inseparable from sex, straction. a , is first -- respect for to t -- to be respected by let and upon er as upon a foundation; and let ttentions, incident to individual preference, be so many pretty additaments and ornaments -- as many, and as fanciful, as you please -- to t main structure. Let lesson -- Susan instanley -- to reverence her sex.