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Updated: July 15, 2025

"Cause, Sir!" cried I, greatly alarmed, "what cause?-I don't know,-I can't tell-I-" "Fear not," said he, kindly, "to unbosom thyself to me, my dearest Evelina; open to me thy whole heart,-it can have no feelings for which I will not make allowance. Tell me, therefore, what it is that thus afflicts us both; and who knows but I may suggest some means of relief?"

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