Identify the name of the author and the title of the work. T…
Identify the name of the author and the title of the work. Then analyze the passage. The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thins not of the dangers lurking beneath those pleasures, till too late to avoid them: when Mademoiselle asked Charlotte to go with her, she mentioned the gentleman as a relation, and spoke in such high terms of the elegance of his gardens, the sprightliness of his conversation, and the liberality with which he ever entertained his guests, that Charlotte thought only of the pleasure she should enjoy in the visit,–not on the impudence of going without her governess’s knowledge, or of the danger to which she exposed herself in visiting the house of a gay young man of fashion.
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