peccadilla

Updated: May 22, 2025

Pho! never mind that: either I shall have a way for it, or we shall thoroughly understand one another by that time; or if we don't, she'll know enough of me, not to wonder at such a peccadilla. But how wilt thou hinder the lady from apprizing her friend of the real name? She must first know it herself, monkey, must she not?

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3