marriage-but

Updated: May 4, 2025

By my advice, she endeavoured to procure proofs of her marriage-but in vain; her credulity had been no match for his art. Every body believed her innocent, from the guiltless tenor of her unspotted youth, and from the known libertinism of her barbarous betrayer.

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