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Pagina 3
... doubt . Yet , what a command has she over herself , that such a penetrating self - flatterer as thyself , is sometimes ready to doubt it ! Though persecuted on the one hand , as she was , by her own family , and attracted on the other ...
... doubt . Yet , what a command has she over herself , that such a penetrating self - flatterer as thyself , is sometimes ready to doubt it ! Though persecuted on the one hand , as she was , by her own family , and attracted on the other ...
Pagina 9
... doubts not , that this will be your fate . you My uncle Harlowe renounces you for ever . So does my uncle Antony . So does my aunt Hervey . So do I , base unworthy creature ! the disgrace of a good family , and the property of an ...
... doubts not , that this will be your fate . you My uncle Harlowe renounces you for ever . So does my uncle Antony . So does my aunt Hervey . So do I , base unworthy creature ! the disgrace of a good family , and the property of an ...
Pagina 14
... But extreme dejection , with a mingled delicacy , that in her dying moments I doubt not she will preserve , have caused her to refuse me the time , though not the solemnity ; for she has told me , that now she must be 14 Clarissa .
... But extreme dejection , with a mingled delicacy , that in her dying moments I doubt not she will preserve , have caused her to refuse me the time , though not the solemnity ; for she has told me , that now she must be 14 Clarissa .
Pagina 18
... doubt not . I am secure in one of the wench's qualities however she is not to be corrupted . A great point that ! -Since a lady and her maid , when heartily of one party , will be too hard for half a score devils . The dear creature was ...
... doubt not . I am secure in one of the wench's qualities however she is not to be corrupted . A great point that ! -Since a lady and her maid , when heartily of one party , will be too hard for half a score devils . The dear creature was ...
Pagina 21
... doubts by my former declared readiness to give him up to a reconciliation with my friends - and yet has himself fallen off from that obsequious tenderness , if I may couple the words , which drew from me the concessions he builds upon ...
... doubts by my former declared readiness to give him up to a reconciliation with my friends - and yet has himself fallen off from that obsequious tenderness , if I may couple the words , which drew from me the concessions he builds upon ...
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acquainted answer apprehensions attend behaviour believe beloved beseech canonical hour Captain Tomlinson charmer charming coach cousin Covent Garden cursed dear creature desired devil dining-room door Dorcas doubt excuse expect eyes favour fellow forgive gentleman give gout Hampstead hand happy happy day HARLOWE TO MISS heard heart honour hope Jack JOHN BELFORD July 17 June 28 knew Lady Betty lady's leave letter libertine lodgings look Lord LOVELACE TO JOHN Mabell madam marriage married MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE Miss Harlowe Miss Montague Morden morning mother never night nymphs obliged occasion once person pity poor present pretended Lady ready ROBERT LOVELACE sake Sally Sally Martin seems sent servant Sinclair soul suffered suppose sure tell thee thou hast thou wilt thought Thursday told uncle unhappy vile villain wench wish woman women word wretch write
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Pagina 167 - ... besought her reliance on my faith and honour — and revowed all my old vows, and poured forth new ones. At last, with a heart-breaking sob, I see, I see, Mr. Lovelace, in broken sentences she spoke — I see, I see — that at last — at last — I am ruined ! — Ruined, if your pity — let me implore your pity! — and down on her bosom, like a half-broken stalked lily top heavy with the over-charging dews of the morning, sunk her head, with a sigh that went to my heart.