Fanny Burney,
Evelina — Letter XLIX: MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA. Berry Hill…
“ Be ever thus, my dearest Evelina, dauntless in the cause of distress! let no weak fears, no timid doubts, deter you from the exertion of your duty, according to the fullest sense of it that Nature has implanted in your mind. ”
Fanny Burney,
Evelina — Letter XLIX: MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA. Berry Hill…
“ Insolence so insufferable, and the implication of suspicions so shocking, irritate me to a degree of wrath, which I hardly thought my almost worn-out passions were capable of again experiencing. You must converse with him no more: he imagines, from the pliability of your temper, that he may offend you with impunity ”
Fanny Burney,
Evelina — Letter XLIX: MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA. Berry Hill…
“ In reading your account of the misguided man, whose misery has so largely excited your compassion, I am led to apprehend that his unhappy situation is less the effect of misfortune than of misconduct. ”
