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Title: Clarissa, Volume 7

Author: Samuel Richardson

Release Date: April 4, 2004 [EBook #11889]

Language: English

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CLARISSA HARLOWE

or the

HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY

Nine Volumes
Volume VII.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII

LETTER I. Miss Howe to Clarissa.--
Beseeches her to take comfort, and not despair. Is dreadfully
apprehensive of her own safety from Mr. Lovelace. An instruction to
mothers.

LETTER II. Clarissa To Miss Howe.--
Averse as she is to appear in a court of justice against Lovelace, she
will consent to prosecute him, rather than Miss Howe shall live in
terror. Hopes she shall not despair: but doubts not, from so many
concurrent circumstances, that the blow is given.

LETTER III. IV. Lovelace to Belford.--
Has no subject worth writing upon now he has lost his Clarissa. Half in
jest, half in earnest, [as usual with him when vexed or disappointed,] he
deplores the loss of her.--Humourous account of Lord M., of himself, and
of his two cousins Montague. His Clarissa has made him eyeless and
senseless to every other beauty.

LETTER V. VI. VII. VIII. From the same.--
Lady Sarah Sadleir and Lady Betty Lawrance arrive, and engage Lord M. and
his two cousins Montague against him, on account of his treatment of the
lady. His trial, as he calls it. After many altercations, they obtain
his consent that his two cousins should endeavour to engage Miss Howe to
prevail upon Clarissa to accept of him, on his unfeigned repentance. It
is some pleasure to him, he however rakishly reflects, to observe how
placable the ladies of his family would have been, had they met with a
Lovelace. MARRIAGE, says he, with these women, is an atonement for the
worst we can do to them; a true dramatic recompense. He makes several
other whimsical, but characteristic observations, some of which may serve
as cautions and warnings to the sex.

LETTER IX. Miss Howe to Clarissa.--
Has had a visit from the two Miss Montague's. Their errand. Advises