after-cultivation

Updated: August 9, 2026

I always think this latter distinction a very important one to attend to in discussing, in a more general point of view, the subject of amusements of every kind: it is, however, enough merely to notice it here, while we pass on to the question which I urge upon you to apply personally to yourself, namely, whether the ball-room be not a more favourable atmosphere for the first excitement and after-cultivation of many feminine failings than the quieter and more confined scenes of other social intercourse.

Anonymous - The Young Lady's Mentor: A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends