This phrase claims that the actions Fantomina was going to take were rebellious for a women from noble family and that these were going to have consequences for her if here family got to know about it. In all of the three personalities she took over, she made sure that her family was kept in dark about her actions. When she was going to bath the author writes '“SHE no sooner heard he had left the Town, than making a Pretence to her Aunt, that she was going to visit a Relation in the Country, went towards Bath, attended but by two Servants, who she found Reasons to quarrel with on the Road and discharg'd”.' For her venture in Bath, her aunt gave her two servants to go along with her but since no one knew her actual purpose of going to bath, she discharged them halfway so that they cannot report about it to her family and that she does not get in trouble with her family for this.

This tries to show the state of shock Fantomina is in when she witnesses the state of affairs down in the gallery box. Claiming "either less surprised by being more accustomed to such Sights, than she who had been bred for the most Part in the Country" contrasts between her reaction and the reaction of other ladies around her. The author here tries to differ between life in city and in a countryside. The activities such as prostitution have not been much thriving in the countryside as compared to the cities. Growing up in a countryside Fantomina did not have much opportunity to indulge or witness such activities. To naturalize into the new environment she was in, she decided to dress up as a prostitute and go down into the gallery box to get an idea of what it is like to be in such a social setting.

When Fantomina first looked down at the gallery box she hated the sight of what was happening down there. She did not like the men getting involved with the prostitutes in the gallery box. OED defines contempt as a noun which means "A feeling of dislike or hostility towards a person or thing one regards as inferior, worthless, or despicable". This is quite an interesting description here because it shows that she deems activities such as prostitution being worthless but as the story progresses we see fantomina fall in love with the same man whom she considered worthless. She even went out of her way just to engaged with this man which she believed was he true love.

"contempt, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2019, www.oed.com/view/Entry/40121. Accessed 12 February 2020.

Fantomina was a noble lady and dressing as one into the gallery box would raise suspicion and men present over there would have recognized her which either would have led them to report about it Fantomina's family or they would have just not talked to Fantomina as a sense of respect. Since Fantomina was an expert in disguising into a totally different character, she changed her accent and dressing whenever she changed her personality. For example when she was going to bath “The Dress she was in, was a round-ear'd Cap, a short Red Petticoat, and a little Jacket of Grey Stuff; all the rest of her Accoutrements were answerable to these, and join'd with a broad Country Dialect”. To make sure Beauplaisir does not recognize her she again changed into another personality by completely changing her sense of style of dressing and the dialect just for her to have a chance to make love with him once again. The object from the gallery in the link below perfectly shows how Fantomina switched her personalities. For her it was as easy as wearing a new mask over her face.

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In this phrase Fantomina is in a state of shock when she first witnesses these events going on around her. Fantomina shows her disappointment from some of the men she knew. She once considered these men to have a good taste. However, seeing these men indulge in prostitution has shown her what type of people they are. She also does not think about them as highly as she did before. However during the course of her story we saw how she demands a sense of affection and acceptance from the same man she once considered to be having a low taste. This directly conflicts with object in the enlightenmens gallery in which Hume claimed "We are not only better pleas'd with the approbation of a wise man than with that of a fool, but receive an additional satisfaction from the former, when 'tis obtain'd after a long and intimate acquaintance. This is accounted for after the I same manner.". According to Hume, a human is is much more satisfied if he gets a sense of acceptance and appreciation from the person who is superior to us in mental capacity than the person who is not. Fantomina's initially impressions of Beauplaisir were not great and the way Fantomina was fooling him again and again clearly showed that he was not superior to Fantomina in any capacity. Fantomina's acts of trying to gain a sense of love and satisfaction from Beauplaisir either shows that she is either going against one of the basic characteristics of human nature or the claim made by Hume was incorrect.

https://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/admin/items/show/426

Hume, David, et al. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Fantomina's initial aim of going down in the gallery box was to learn about the atmosphere down and nothing else. OED defines Curiosity as a noun which means 'Desire to know or learn'. This word fits perfectly well here since Fantomina is in a completely new social setting which she is unaware of and wants to explore it just as a personal social experiment. The phrase 'and set herself in the Way of being accosted as such a one, having at that Time no other Aim, than the Gratification of an innocent Curiosity.' perfectly shows that Fantomina had no intitial intentions of getting involved sexually with anyone down in the gallery box. The object in the link below perfectly captures the extremely complex scene down there.

"curiosity, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2019, www.oed.com/view/Entry/46038. Accessed 12 February 2020. https://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/admin/items/show/407

OED:- Suffering together with another, participation in suffering; fellow-feeling, sympathy. Obsolete.

"compassion, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2019, www.oed.com/view/Entry/37475. Accessed 7 February 2020.