CLARISSA A Novel BY SAMUEL RICHARDSON EDITED BY E. S. DALLAS AUTHOR OF THE GAY SCIENCE "The prolixity of Richardson, which, to our giddy Sir Walter Scott's Memoir of Richardson. VOL. III LONDON TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE ST., STRAND CLARISSA. Part Fourth continued.-The Last MR. BELFORD TO ROBERT LOVELACE, ESQ. Friday Noon, July 21. HIS morning I was admitted, as soon as I sent up my name, into the presence of the divine lady. Such I may call her; as what I have to relate will fully prove. She had had a tolerable night, and was much better in spirits; though weak in person; and visibly declining in looks. She had been writing, she said, a letter to her sister : but had not pleased herself in it; though she had made two or three essays: but that the last must go. By hints I had dropped from time to time, she had reason, she said, to think that I knew everything that concerned her and her family; and, if so, must be acquainted with the heavy curse her father had laid upon her; which had been dreadfully fulfilled in one part, as to her prospects in this life, and that in a very short time; which gave her great apprehensions of the other part. She had been applying herself to her sister, to obtain a revocation of it. I hope my father will revoke VOL. III. B |