At the age of ten or eleven; nay, often much sooner, girls began to coquet, and talked, unreproved, of establishing themselves in the world by marriage.

十岁或十一岁；不仅如此，通常更早的时候，女孩们就开始撒娇，毫无怨言地谈论通过婚姻在这个世界上站稳脚跟。