you-sacrifice

Updated: May 19, 2025

He stopped; but I was silent, for I knew not what I ought to say. He took my hand, which he pressed to his lips, saying, "And must I then, Miss Anville, must I quit you-sacrifice voluntarily my greatest felicity:-and yet not be honoured with one word, one look of approbation?"

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