back on his past actions by this lady. Gives him what he

calls a faint picture of his horrible uneasiness, riding up and

down, expecting the return of his servant as soon as he had

dispatched him. Woe be to the man who brings him the

fatal news!

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27-31

LETTER VI. Belford, to Lovelace.-Farther particulars of the

lady's pious and exemplary behaviour. She rejoices in the

gradual death afforded her. Her thankful acknowledgments

to Mr. Belford, Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Lovick, for their kind-

ness to her. Her edifying address to Mr. Belford...... 31-35

LETTER VII. Clarissa, to Mrs. Norton. In answer to her's,"

No. I.-Afflicted only for her friends. Desires not now to see

her cousin Morden, nor even herself, or Miss Howe. God

will have no rivals, she says, in the hearts of those whom He

sanctifies. Advice to Miss Howę. To Mr. Hickman. Blesses

all her relations and friends

35-39

LETTER VIII. Lovelace, to Belford.-A letter of deep dis-

tress, remorse, and impatience. Yet would he fain lighten

his own guilt by reflections on the cruelty of her relations 39-42

LETTER IX. Belford, to Lovelace. The lady is disappointed

at the Doctor's telling her that she may yet live two or three

days. Death from grief the slowest of deaths. Her solemn

forgiveness of Lovelace, and prayer for him.

once she could have loved him. Her generous

his future happiness. Belford's good resolutions

LETTER X. Mr. Brand, to Mr. John Walton; XI. Mr. Brand,

to John Harlowe, Esq.; in excuse of his credulity, and of the

misreports founded upon it ..................

LETTER XII. Lovelace, to Belford.-Blesses him for sending

him word the lady is better. Her charity towards him cuts

him to the heart. He cannot bear it. His vehement self-

reproaches. Curses his contriving genius, and his disbelief

that there could be such virtue in woman. The world never

saw such an hrisband as he will make, if she recover, and will

be his

....... 67-70

LETTER XIII. Belford, to Lovelace. The lady's pious frame.

The approaches of death how supportable to her; and why.

She has no reason, she says, to grieve for any thing but

the sorrow she has given to her friends

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...

Owns that

concern for

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42-47

47-67

70-72

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LETTER XIV. Lovelace, to Belford.-Never prayed in his life,

put all the years of it together, as he has done for this fortnight

past. Has repented of all his baseness: And will nothing do?

Conjures him to send him good news in his next, as he would

not be answerable for consequences

..... 72-74

LETTER XV. Belford, to Lovelace.-Solemn leave taken of
her by the doctor and apothecary; who tell her she will
hardly see the next night. The pleasure with which she re-
ceives the intimation. How unlike poor Belton's behaviour
her's! A letter from Miss Howe. Copy of it. She cannot
see to read it. Her exalted expressions on hearing it read.
Tries to write an answer to it; but cannot. Dictates to
Mrs. Lovick. Writes the subscriptive part herself on her
knees. Colonel Morden arrived in town .......
7479

LETTER XVI. From the same.-What passes on Colonel Mor.

den's visit to his cousin. She enjoins the Colonel not to

avenge her

Letter XVII. From the same.—Her silent devotion. Strong

symptoms of her approaching dissolution. Comforts her cou-

sin and him. Wishes she had had her parents' last blessing:

but God, she says, would not let her depend for comfort on

any but Himself. Repeats her request to the Colonel, that

he will not seek to avenge her wrongs; and to Belford, that

he will endeavour to heal all breaches..
90-93

LETTER XVIII. From the same. The Colonel writes to Mr.

John Harlowe that they may now spare themselves the

trouble of debating about a reconciliation. The lady takes

from her bosom a miniature picture of Miss Howe, to be

given to Mr. Hickman after her decease. Her affecting ad-

dress to it, on parting with it.

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79-90

93-95

LETTER XIX. Belford, to Mowbray.-Desires him and

Tourville to throw themselves in the way of Lovelace, in

order to prevent him doing either mischief to himself or

others, on the receipt of the fatal news which he shall pro-

bably send him in an hour or two

LETTER XX. Lovelace, to Belford.-A letter filled with rage,

curses, and alternate despair and hope

...... 97

LETTER XXI. Belford, to Lovelace.—With the fatal hint, that

.....

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he may take a tour to Paris, or wherever else his destiny shall

lead him...

LETTER XXII. Mowbray, to Belford.With the particulars,

in his libertine manner, of Lovelace's behaviour on his re-

ceiving the fatal breviate, and of the distracted way he is

in......

..98-101

LETTER XXIII. Belford, to Lovelace.-Particulars of Cla-
rissa's truly christian behaviour in her last hours. A short
sketch of her character..

102-107

LETTER XXIV. From the same. The three next following

letters brought by a servant in livery, directed to the de-

parted lady, viz.

109-111

112-113

113-114

108-109
LETTER XXV. From Mrs. Norton.-With the news of a ge-
neral reconciliation upon her own conditions....
LETTER XXVI. From Miss Arabella.-In which she assures
her of all their returning love and favour
LETTER XXVII. From Mr. John Harlowe.-Regretting that
things have been carried so far; and desiring her to excuse
his part in what had passed

LETTER XXVIII. Belford, to Lovelace.-His executorial pro-

ceedings. Eleven posthumous letters of the lady. Copy of

one of them written to himself. Tells Lovelace of one written

to him, in pursuance of her promise in her allegorical letter.

(See Letter XIX. of Vol. VII.) Other executorial proceed-

ings. The Colonel's letter to James Harlowe, signifying

Clarissa's request to be buried at the feet of her grand-

father.....

....

.....

114-120

LETTER XXIX. From the same.-Mrs. Norton arrives. Her

surprise and grief to find her beloved young lady departed.

The posthumous letters calculated to give comfort, and not

to reproach.....

120-123

LETTER XXX. XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII. XXXIV. Copies
of Clarissa's posthumous letters to her father, mother, bro-
ther, sister, and uncle

Substance of her letter to her aunt Hervey, concluding with

advice to her cousin Dolly

Substance of her letter to Miss Howe, with advice in favour of

....

....

123-133

133-135

Mr. Hickman.

135-136

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136-138

LETTER XXXV. Belford, to Lovelace.-The wretched Sin-

clair breaks her leg, and dispatches Sally Martin to beg a visit

from him, and that he will procure for her the lady's forgive

ness. Sally's remorse for the treatment she gave her at

Rowland's. Acknowledges the lady's ruin to be in a great

measure owing to their instigations •

LETTER XXXVI. From the same.-Miss Howe's distress on

receiving the fatal news, and the posthumous letters directed

to her. Copy of James Harlowe's answer to Colonel Mor

den's letter, in which he relates the unspeakable distress of

the family; endeavours to exculpate himself; desires the

body may be sent down to Harlowe-place; and that the

Colonel will favour them with his company •••••••••• 138-144

LETTER XXXVII. From the same.-The corpse sent down,

attended by the Colonel and Mrs. Norton.
........... 144-145

Letter XXXVIII. Mowbray, to Belford.—An account of

Lovelace's delirious unmanageableness, and extravagant de-

sign, had they not all interposed. They have got Lord M. to

him. He endeavours to justify Lovelace by rakish principles,

and by a true story of a villany which he thinks greater

than that of Lovelace by Clarissa..

145-148

LETTER XXXIX. Lovelace, to Belford.-Written in the

height of his delirium. The whole world, he says, is but one

great Bedlam. Every one in it mad but himself • 148-153

LETTER XL. Belford to Mowbray.-Desires that Lovelace,

on his recovery, may be prevailed upon to go abroad; and

why. Exhorts him and Tourville to reform, as he is resolved

to do...
...153-154

LETTER XLI. Belford, to Lovelace.-Describing the terrible

impatience, despondency, and death of the wretched Sin-

clair

154-170

[As the bad house is often mentioned in this work, without any

other stigma than what arises from the wicked principles

and actions occasionally given of the wretches who inhabit it;

Mr. Belford here enters into the secret retirements of those

creatures, and exposes them in the appearances they are sup-

posed to make, before they are tricked out to ensnare weak

and inconsiderate minds.]

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LETTER XLII. Colonel Morden, to Mr. Belford.With an ac-

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count of his arrival at Harlowe-place before the body. The

dreadful distress of the whole family in expectation of its

coming. The deep remorse of James and Arabella Harlowe.

Mutual recriminations on recollecting the numerous instances

of their inexorable cruelty. Mrs. Norton so ill he was forced

to leave her at St. Alban's. He dates agaiu to give a farther

account of their distress on the arrival of the hearse. Solemn

respect paid to her memory by crowds of people.

LETTER XLIII. Colonel Morden, to Mr. Belford.-Farther in-

teresting accounts of what passed among the Harlowes. Miss

Howe expected to see, for the last time, her beloved friend 182-186

LETTER XLIV. From the same.-Miss Howe arrives. The

Colonel receives her. Her tender woe; and characteristic

behaviour

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171-181

LETTER XLV. From the same.-Mrs. Norton arrives. Amended

in spirits. To what owing. Farther recriminations of the

unhappy parents. They attempt to see the corpse; but cannot.

Could ever wilful hard-heartedness, the Colonel asks, be more

severely punished? Substance of the lady's posthumous letter

to Mrs. Norton

LETTER XLVI. From the same.-Account of the funeral so-

lemnity. Heads of the eulogium. The universal justice done

to the lady's great and good qualities. Other affecting parti-

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191-195

196-200

culars

LETTER XLVII. Belford, to Colonel Morden.-Compliments

him on his pathetic narratives. Farther account of his execu-

torial proceedings

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..... 200-202

......... 203-204

.... 205-207

LETTER XLVIII. James Harlowe, to Belford

LETTER XLIX. Mr. Belford. In answer.

The lady's LAST WILL. In the preamble to which, as well as in

the body of it, she gives several instructive hints; and dis-

plays, in an exemplary manner, her forgiving spirit, her piety,

her charity, her gratitude, and other christian and heroic

virtues..

207-226

LETTER L. Colonel Morden, to Mr. Belford.-The will read.

What passed on the occasion

227-231

LETTER LI. Belford, to Lord M.-Apprehends a vindictive

resentment from the Colonel.-Desires that Mr. Lovelace

may be prevailed on to take a tour.

231-232