She related an incident or two occurring in her career of independence, and they discussed our state of civilization plainly and gravely, save for the laughing peals her phrases occasionally provoked; as when she named the intruders and disturbers of solitarily-faring ladies, 'Cupid's footpads. Her humour was created to swim on waters where a prescribed and cultivated prudery should pretend to be drowning.
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