Fanny Burney

“ Miss Branghton desired me to remark with what a smart air he entered the room, and asked me if he had not very much a quality look?
"Come," cried he, advancing to us, "you ladies must not sit together; wherever I go I always make it a rule to part the ladies." ”

“ Why, you never knew such a fuss in your life as he made, because one day at dinner I only happened to say, that I supposed he had never got such a good meal in his life before he came to England: there, he fell in such a passion as you can't think: but for my part, I took no notice of it: for to be sure, thinks I, he must needs be a gentleman, or he'd never go to be so angry about it. ”

“ Soon after, when Miss Branghton offered me some cake, this man of gallantry said, "Well, if I was that lady, I'd never take any thing from a woman."
"Why not, Sir?"
"Because I should be afraid of being poisoned for being so handsome."
"Who is severe upon the ladies now?" said I.
"Why, really, Ma'am, it was a slip of the tongue; I did not intend to say such a thing; but one can't always be on one's guard."
Soon after, the conversation turning upon public places, young Branghton asked if I had ever been to George's at Hampstead? ”