A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.91
