It shocked her nevertheless to perceive how much of the world's flayed life and harsh anatomy she had apprehended, and so coldly, previous to Mrs.Marsett's lift of the veil in her story of herself: a skipping revelation, terrible enough to the girl; whose comparison of the previously suspected things with the things now revealed imposed the thought of her having been both a precocious and a callous young woman: a kind of 'Delphica without the erudition,' her mind phrased it airily over her chagrin .-- And the silence of Dudley proved him to have discovered his error in choosing such a person--he was wise, and she thanked him.

She had an envy of the ignorant-innocents adored by the young man she cordially thanked for quitting her.

She admired the white coat of armour they wore, whether bestowed on them by their constitution or by prudence.

For while combating mankind now on Judith Marsett's behalf, personally she ran like a hare from the mere breath of an association with the very minor sort of similar charges; ardently she desired the esteem of mankind; she was at moments abject.
But had she actually been aware of the facts now known?
Those wits of the virgin young, quickened to shrewdness by their budding senses--and however vividly--require enlightenment of the audible and visible before their sterner feelings can be heated to break them away from a blushful dread and force the mind to know.

As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man--a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him--barbarously exacts.