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He owns, therefore, what it would be to no purpose to conceal; and his ingenuousness is a salvo--'Why, this, Madam, is no more than Mr. Lovelace himself acknowledges Well, but what is now to be done?--You must make the best of your situation: and as you say, so he has proposed to you of Windsor, and his canon's house.— Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
No man so furtive for the time as the ingenuous countryman who finds that his ingenuousness has been abused.— The Woodlanders
He owns, therefore, what it would be to no purpose to conceal; and his ingenuousness is a salvo -- 'Why, this, Madam, is no more than Mr. Lovelace himself acknowledges.'— Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
'You use an imaginary helplessness with the brutality of a buccaneer, and your ingenuousness is a pistol you put to one's head, crying: your money or your life.'— The Explorer
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