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Pagina 121
... intended I should see , she retired to her chamber with precipitation ; leaving me almost as unable to stand it , as herself . In short , I was - I want words to say how I was — my nose had been made to tingle before ; my eyes have ...
... intended I should see , she retired to her chamber with precipitation ; leaving me almost as unable to stand it , as herself . In short , I was - I want words to say how I was — my nose had been made to tingle before ; my eyes have ...
Pagina 126
... intended to put it in her uncle's power to delay my happy day . When , when , was it to be ? No new delays for Heaven's sake , I besought her ; and reproached her gently for the past . Name but the day- ( an early day , I hoped it would ...
... intended to put it in her uncle's power to delay my happy day . When , when , was it to be ? No new delays for Heaven's sake , I besought her ; and reproached her gently for the past . Name but the day- ( an early day , I hoped it would ...
Pagina 128
... intended ( for he could have no objection to the drafts ) -But yet , he expected to have present one trusty friend of his own , for his better satisfaction " - Here I stopped , with a design to be angry - But she desiring me to read on ...
... intended ( for he could have no objection to the drafts ) -But yet , he expected to have present one trusty friend of his own , for his better satisfaction " - Here I stopped , with a design to be angry - But she desiring me to read on ...
Pagina 130
... intended to be our nuptial father ; and actually made the offer ; but that we had declined to accept of it , and that for no other reason than to avoid a public wedding ; which his beloved niece would not come into , while she was in ...
... intended to be our nuptial father ; and actually made the offer ; but that we had declined to accept of it , and that for no other reason than to avoid a public wedding ; which his beloved niece would not come into , while she was in ...
Pagina 168
... intended to take with her , ready packed up ; herself on tiptoe to be gone ; and I prepared to attend her thither ; she begins to be afraid , that she shall not go this night ; and in grief and despair has flung herself into her old ...
... intended to take with her , ready packed up ; herself on tiptoe to be gone ; and I prepared to attend her thither ; she begins to be afraid , that she shall not go this night ; and in grief and despair has flung herself into her old ...
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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 335 - A horrid hole of a house, in an alley they call a court ; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms : And into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by a multitude of tacks, and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. The floor indeed was clean, but the ceiling was smoked with...
Pagina 157 - ... longer from her, any more than (from the violent impulses of my passion) to forbear manifesting myself. I unbuttoned therefore my cape, I pulled off my flapt slouched hat ; I threw open my great coat, and, like the devil in Milton (an odd comparison though !) I started up in my own form divine, Touch' a by the beam of her celestial eye, More potent than Ithuriel's spear...
Pagina 166 - O the poor Clarissa Harlowe! She tore off her head-clothes; inquired where I was: and in she came, her shining tresses flowing about her neck; her ruffles torn, and hanging in tatters about her snowy hands; with her arms spread out; her eyes wildly turned, as if starting from their orbits. Down sunk she at my feet, as soon as she approached me; her charming bosom heaving to her uplifted face; and clasping her arms about my knees, Dear Lovelace...
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.