cannot-you

Updated: May 28, 2025

"My forgiveness! my Lord?" cried I, abashed, rather than elated by his condescension; "surely you cannot-you are not serious?" "Indeed, never more so! yet, if I may be my own interpreter, Miss Anville's countenance pronounces my pardon." "I know not, my Lord, how any one can pardon, who never has been offended."

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