OF FRENCH SOCIETY. of language, it is which makes this writer, and others we could name, so peculiarly dangerous. Women of fashion, of the very worst description, to whose parties the writer referred to was familiarly admitted, are named with unbounded admiration, not merely of their talents, but their virtues. The charms of their conversation, and the amiableness of their characters, are the theme of his unmixed panegyric. Incidentally, however, as a thing by the by, as a trifle not requiring to be named expressly, as a circumstance not invali- dating any of their perfections, it comes out, that these women, so faultless and so panegyrised, are living in an illicit com- merce with different men - men, whose wives are, with the same uncensured guilt, carrying on similar connections with the husbands of other women ! Sobriety, chastity, the conjugal and maternal vir- tues, are not thotight necessary to be called in to complete their round of perfection. Impurity of heart and life, D 3
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