Moll Flanders

I was more confounded with the money than I was before with the love, and began to be soelevated that I scarce knew the ground I stood on. I am the more particular in this part, that if mystory comes to be read by any innocent young body, they may learn from it to guard themselvesagainst the mischiefs which attend an early knowledge of their own beauty. If a young womanonce thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in lovewith her; for if she believes herself charming enough to captivate him, ‘tis natural to expect theeffects of it.