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eighteen is reckoned very poorly off, if fhe 

 cannot enumerate at leaft twenty lovers. 

 Thefe young ladies, efpecially thofe of a 

 higher rank, get up at feven, and drefs till 

 nine, drinking their coffee at the fame time. 

 When they are dreffed, they place them- 

 felves near a window that opens into the 

 ftreet, take up fome needle-work, and few 

 a. ftitch now and then ; but turn their eyes 

 into the ftreet moft of the time. When a 

 young fellow comes in, whether they are 

 acquainted with him or not, they immedi- 

 ately lay afide their work, fit down by him, 

 and begin to chat, laugh, joke, and invent 

 double-entendres -, and this is reckoned be- 

 ing very witty *. In this manner they fre- 

 quently pafs the whole day, leaving their 

 mothers to do all the bufinefs in the houfe. 

 In Montreal, the girls are not quite fo vo- 

 latile, but more induftrious. They are al- 

 ways at their needle-work, or doing fome 

 neceffary bufinefs in the houfe. They are 

 likewife chearful and content ; and nobody 

 can! fay that they want either wit, or 

 charms. Their fault is, that they think 

 too well of themfelves. However, the 

 daughters of people of all ranks, without 

 exception, go to marker, and carry home 

 what they have bought. They rife as foon, 



* Avoir btaucoup d'e/prit. 



and 



