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CLARISSA.

OR, THE

HISTORY

OF A

YOUNG LADY:

Comprehending

The most Important Concerns of Private LIFE.

And particularly fhewing,

The Diftreffes that may attend the MISCONDUCT
Both of PARENTS and CHILDREN,"

In Relation to MARRIAGE.

VOL. VII.

The SEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and F. RIVINGTON, S. CROWDER, W. JOHN--
STON, T. LOWNDES, T. BECKET, W. GRIFFIN, F. NEW-
BERY, T. CADELL, G. ROBINSON, R. BALDWIN W,
GOLDSMITH, T. EVANS, and J. KNOX.

M DCC LXXIV.

THE

HISTORY

O F

CLARISSA HARLOWE.

VO L. VII.

LETTER I.

Mifs CLARISSA HARLOWE, To Mrs. NORTON.

My dear Mrs. Norton,

Monday Night, July 24.

AD I not fallen into fresh troubles, which H difabled me for several days from holding a pen, I fhould not have forborn enquiring

after your health, and that of your Son; for I fhould have been but too ready to impute your filence to the cause, to which, to my very great concern, I find it was owing. I pray to Heaven, my dear good friend, to give you comfort in the way moft defirable to yourself.

I am exceedingly concerned at Mifs Howe's writing about me to my friends. I do affure you, that I was as ignorant of her intention fo to do, as of the contents of her Letter. Nor has the yet let me know B 2

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