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A certain measure of the sophisticated or unsophistication of a youthful damsel may be found in her manner o f receiving the attentions of a stranger in a station different from her own.
Young women, themselves but rarely unsophisticated, view with a certain pitying sort of curiosity unsophisticatedness in men. And
A young man's unsophisticatedeness it is a great delight to a woman to eradicate. Yet
A girl regards with complex emotions the man who has blossomed under the genial warmth of her rays; the flattery to own powers is counterbalanced by the evidence of lack of power in him.
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A girl thinks she detects flippancy in seriousness. A woman thinks she detects seriousness in flippancy.
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What would be conduct decidedly risqué in a city miss, is often innocent playfulness in a country maid.
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