“At first I dealt among the women of quality. I took them in the evening in the circle, or at play at the Manimonbanda’s: I passed the night with them, and we hardly knew each other in the morning. One of the occupations of these ladies, is to procure lovers, nay, to decoy them away from their best female friends; and the other, to get rid of them. Through apprehensions of ever being unprovided, while they are enjoying the sweets of one intrigue, they squint at two or three others. They possess a number of little arts to attract the man they have in view, and a thousand tricks in reserve, to disengage themselves from their present spark. This has always been, and always will be. I shall name nobody; but I knew every woman of Erguebzed’s court, who had any reputation for youth and beauty; and all these engagements were formed, broken off, resumed, forgot, in less than six months.