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The poor creature, too ashamed to be prudish, laughed too. My spirits also begin to rise, as I thought of the pleasure I should get out of this new discovery after supper. "Have you never had a lover?" said I to the Lepi. "No," said the Astrodi, "she is still a maid." "No, I am not," replied the Lepi, in some confusion, "I had a lover at Bordeaux, and another at Montpellier."
And so with love. Men will discuss their love if they must with the most prudish decorum; women undress it. It becomes essential, therefore, that what Margaret said to Mary must not be discovered. When she had ceased she put out a hand for the price of her confidence: "And have you are you I know practically nothing about you, Mary, dear. Do tell me, are you in love?"
"Well," said Alice, "from the standpoint of most men, Miss Hinckley isn't to be left out of the reckoning in such matters. What a face and figure she has! Miss Addison is too prudish and churchified; but I like Miss Hinckley." "Yes," said I; "but Miss Trescott seems, somehow, to have been known to one, in some tender and touching relation.
'The meaning was, that this poor child had been told it was etiquette for me to have a chaperon at my heels, and made such a disturbance that I was obliged to give up the point. I am not ashamed. She is a good girl, though a troublesome one at times. 'Who would have thought that pretty face could be so prudish! 'I suppose she is against your coming to Epsom! said Jane, interrupting her sister.
It departed from her in that it admitted a much wider range and variety of subject itself; and by no means excluded the passions and emotions which, though she had not been so prudish as to ignore their results, she had never chosen to represent in much actual exercise, or to make the mainsprings of her books.
"Say how it came into your possession. No one will believe you, but my name, at least, will live. You will treat it brutally, I know you will. Some of it must go; the public are fools and prudish fools. I was their servant once. But do your mangling gently very gently. It is a great work, and I have paid for it in seven years' damnation."
Some gossip went the round of the salons at first, but the harmless lovers were soon forgotten in the course of events which took place in Paris; their marriage was announced at length to excuse them in the eyes of the prudish; and as it happened, their servants did not babble; so their bliss did not draw down upon them any very severe punishment.
"What do you wish, Mr. Berrington?" Aunt Hannah inquired starchily, sitting bolt upright in her chair as I approached. I detest the use of the word "wish" in place of "want"; I don't know why, but I always associate it with prim, prudish, highly-conventional old ladies.
"You mean Mr. Lindsay!" she exclaimed, twisting her wedding-ring and its coral guard. "I hope I beg that you will not think me meddlesome or impertinent. I have the matter very much at heart. It seems to lie in my path. I must see it. Surely you perceive some way of averting the disaster in it!" "I'm sure I don't know what you refer to." Mrs. Sand's tone was prudish and offended.
The subject of age, always shrouded in a seemly and decorous modesty in England, and especially since, a few years previously, an eminent professor of medicine had unloosed the alarming theory of "Too old at forty", was suddenly ripped out of its prudish coverings. One generation of men began to talk with thoroughly engaging frankness and largeness about their age.
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