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64 TRAVELS
paffion is a defire of public notice and diftinction. There is not
an individual for whom they feel, in their heart, fuch ftrong and
violent fentiments of friendfhip, tendernefs, and love, as are
found in thofe who live in warmer climates.
Fhe fame conftitution which produces diftance and referve in
one clafs of women, is the caufe of exceffive licentioufnefs in the
inferior orders. The prodigality of their kindnefs is in proportion
to the coldnefs of their temperament. They feem to think they
ean never give enough, becaufe they feel little even in beftowing
the greateft favours. There are not in Stockholm, as in other
places, any women of the town: inftead of thefe—individuals
have miftrefles, who maintain a rank in fociety much above their
condition in life. They are pretty much in the ftyle of fome
diftinguifhed individuals of that defcription in England. They
require to be courted ina formal manner; nor are their good
graces, fuch as they are, to be obtained by any one without fome
previous introduction; a cuftom which 1 am far from difcom-
mending, but which, on the contrary, I think is entitled to fome
credit, even though they are not contented with one lover at a
time. Perhaps they might be fo fatisfied, and even inclined to
exchange their condition with the more uniform {tate of concu-
bines, if they could meet with admirers fufficiently affluent and
generous to enable them to confine their acquaintance to one per-
fon. But the honorary premium ufually given them is very {mal},
and they muft have at leaft feven or eight lovers to fupport the
ftyle of drefs they afpire to, which is the only objec of their care
day
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