"Cousin, said she, you have very much surpriz'd me with what you have said, I thought I shou'd have been very secure from the Importunities of Love, while I was with you, since you have always express'd the greatest dislike to it; but I flatter myself, that all you have said, has been only to try how easily you could gain a Heart, which has made so many victorious Defences against all Assaults of that kind."
The Cousins [from The Works]
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