Evelina [with Biographical Introduction]

by Frances Burney

neither did I dare refuse this gentleman as I had done Mr. Lovel, and then, if any acquaintance should offer, accept him: and so, all these reasons combining, induced me to tell him—yet I blush to write it to you!—that I was already engaged; by which I meant to keep myself at liberty to a dance, or not, as matters should fall out.

o sweetie o no