Your principles teach you to abhor a voluptuous temper; but, with whatever reluctance, I acknowledge this temper to be mine.

You imagine your servant Judith to be innocent as well as beautiful; but you took her from a family where hypocrisy, as well as licentiousness, was wrought into a system.

My attention was captivated by her charms, and her principles were easily seen to be flexible.
"Deem me not capable of the iniquity of seduction.

Your servant is not destitute of feminine and virtuous qualities; but she was taught that the best use of her charms consists in the sale of them.

My nocturnal visits to Mettingen were now prompted by a double view, and my correspondence with your servant gave me, at all times, access to your house.
"The second night after our interview, so brief and so little foreseen by either of us, some daemon of mischief seized me.