The scandal is warrant for that; the circumstances of the scandal emphasize the warrant.

And how clever she is! Cleverness is an attribute of the selecter missionary lieutenants of Satan.

We pray to be defended from her cleverness: she flashes bits of speech that catch men in their unguarded corner.

The wary stuff their ears, the stolid bid her best sayings rebound on her reputation.

Nevertheless the world, as Christian, remembers its professions, and a portion of it joins the burly in morals by extending to her a rough old charitable mercifulness; better than sentimental ointment, but the heaviest blow she has to bear, to a character swimming for life.
That the lady in question was much quoted, the Diaries and Memoirs testify.