eat me as he has done, could do this!

Don't speak against Mr. Lovelace, Miss Harlowe. He is a man I greatly
esteem. [Cursed toad!] And, 'bating that he will take his advantage,
where he can, of US silly credulous women, he is a man of honour.

She lifted up her hands and eyes, instead of speaking: and well she
might! For any words she could have used could not have expressed the
anguish she must feel on being comprehended in the US.

She must write for one hundred and fifty guineas, at least: two hundred,
if she were short of more money, might well be written for.

Mrs. Sinclair, she said, had all her clothes. Let them be sold, fairly
sold, and the money go as far as it would go. She had also a few other
valuables; but no money, (none at all,) but the poor half guinea, and the
little silver they had seen. She would give bond to pay all that her
apparel, and the other maters she had, would fall short of. She had
great effects belonging to her of right. Her bond would, and must be
paid, were it for a thousand pounds. But her clothes she should never
want. She believed, if not too much undervalued, those, and her few
valuables, would answer every thing. She wished for no surplus but to
discharge the last expenses; and forty shillings would do as well for
those as forty pounds. 'Let my ruin, said she, lifting up her eyes, be
LARGE! Let it be COMPLETE, in this life!--For a composition, let it be
COMPLETE.'--And there she stopped.

The wretches could not help wishing to me for the opportunity of making
such a purchase for their own wear. How I cursed them! and, in my heart,
thee!--But too probable, thought I, that this vile Sally Martin may hope,
[though thou art incapable of it,] that her Lovelace, as she has the
assurance, behind thy back, to call thee, may present her with some of
the poor lady's spoils!

Will not Mrs. Sinclair, proceeded she, think my clothes a security, till
they can be sold? They are very good clothes. A suit or two but just
put on, as it were; never worn. They cost much more than it demanded of
me. My father loved to see me fine.--All shall go. But let me have the
particulars of her demand. I suppose I must pay for my destroyer [that
was her well-adapted word!] and his servants, as well as for myself. I
am content to do so--I am above wishing that any body, who could thus
act, should be so much as expostulated with, as to the justice and equity
of this payment. If I have bu