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to. Though it is not eaſy to ſay how a perſon ſhould act under the immediate influence of paſſion, yet they certainly have no excuſe who are actuated only by vanity, and deceive by an equivocal behaviour in order to gratify it. There are quite as many male coquets as female, and they are far more pernicious peſts to ſociety, as their ſphere of action is larger, and they are leſs expoſed to the cenſure of the world. A ſmothered ſigh, downcaſt look, and the many other little arts which are played off, may give extreme pain to a ſincere, artleſs woman, though ſhe cannot reſent, or complain
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