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  • Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!

    Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) (1820). “Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to the world [by F. Burney].”, p.41