I hope you do not insinuate that a daughter of mine discovers levity?" "Certainly, ma'am; she is called the best rope jumper in the village, I hear; and levity, or lightness of carriage, is the great requisite for skill in the art.

'Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.' 493.

If her Virtue had had a Part of his Passion, her Levity had been his Cure; she could not then have been false and amiable at the same time.