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A certain measure of the sophisticated or unsophistication of a youthful
damsel may be found in her manner o f receiving the attentions of a
stranger in a station different from her own.

Young women, themselves but rarely unsophisticated, view with a certain
pitying sort of curiosity unsophisticatedness in men. And

A young man's unsophisticatedeness it is a great delight to a woman to
eradicate. Yet

A girl regards with complex emotions the man who has blossomed under the
genial warmth of her rays; the flattery to own powers is counterbalanced
by the evidence of lack of power in him.

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A girl thinks she detects flippancy in seriousness. A woman thinks she
detects seriousness in flippancy.

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What would be conduct decidedly risqué in a city miss, is often innocent
playfulness in a country maid.

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Between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, girls play with love as if it