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This exchange reads as playful social wit, but it also points to the uncertainty of loyalty and attraction. The joke turns on treating a man as someone changeable, or at least not fully owned by any one woman, and then softens that with a clever word. It lands in a drawing room quarrel where flirtation is disguised as manners and language does the teasing.
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Originally said in English.
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About Elizabeth Gaskell
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