You see women, whom we have proved to be of respectable rank and condition, exposed to what is held to be the last of indignities in that country,--the view of a base, insulting, ridiculing, or perhaps vainly pitying populace.
Burke describes the humiliation faced by women of respectable rank, emphasizing the societal indignities they endure.
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