I'd wonder if this shows up more in books written by women than by men, but even Dickens does it to some degree -- Our Mutual Friend features a con artist attempting to marry a naive young woman off to a fortune-hunter for a cut, who changes her ways because she falls for the mark!
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Date: 2021-04-11 05:56 pm (UTC)