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she cried at length . `` Do n't , then , '' Nick replied , and off she ran without so much as good-night . How exquisite it was -- that dress in Evelina 's shop off Shaftesbury Avenue ! It was four o'clock on a fine day early in April , and was Fanny the one to spend four o'clock on a fine day indoors ? Other girls in that very street sat over ledgers , or drew long threads wearily between silk and gauze ; or , festooned with ribbons in Swan and Edgars , rapidly added up pence and farthings on the back of the bill and twisted the yard and three-quarters in tissue paper and asked `` Your pleasure ? '' of the next comer . In Evelina 's shop off Shaftesbury Avenue the parts of a woman were shown separate .