brief-madame

Updated: May 2, 2025

Protected and supported by me, the misery and disgrace which awaited her might perhaps have been avoided. But, to be brief-Madame Duval, at the instigation of her husband, earnestly, or rather tyrannically, endeavoured to effect a union between Miss Evelyn and one of his nephews.

Fanny Burney - Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World