PAGE. her to the utmost. The honour of the whole sex XX. XXI. From the same. She calls upon Lovelace to give her a faithful account of the noise and voices she heard at the garden-door, which frightened her away with him. His con- fession, and daring hints in relation to Solmes, and her brother, and Betty Barnes. She is ter- XXII. Lovelace to Belford.-Rejoices in the stu- His pro- XXIII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-A conversation XXIV. XXV. Lovelace to Belford. His ac- knowledged vanity. Accounts for his plausible behaviour, and specious promises and proposals. Apprehensive of the correspondence between Miss Howe and Clarissa. Loves to plague him XXVII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Lovelace com- XXX. XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII. From the same. The contents of the letters from Lady Betty and Miss Montague put Clarissa in good humour with Mr Lovelace. He hints at mar- riage; but pretends to be afraid of pursuing the hint. She is carnest with him to leave her; and why. He applauds her reasonings. Her serious questions, and his ludicrous answers. He makes different proposals. He offers to bring Mrs Nor- He writes by her consent to his friend Doleman, XXXIX. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Acquaints her with a scheme formed by her brother and Captain Singleton to carry her off. Hickman's silent charities. She despises all his sex, as well as him. Ill terms on which her own father and mother lived. Extols Clarissa for her domestic good qualities. Particulars of a great contest with her mother, on their correspondence. Has XL. XLI. XLII. Clarissa to Miss Howe-A strong remonstrance on her behaviour to her mother; in which she lays down the duty of children. Accuses her of want of generosity to Hickman. Farther excuses herself on declining to accept of her money offers. Proposes a condi- tion on which Mrs Howe may see all they write, 80 XLIII. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Her mother rejects the proposed condition. Miss Howe takes thankfully her reprehensions: but will continue XLIV. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Lovelace com- municates her brother and Singleton's project; but treats it with seeming contempt. She asks his advice what to do upon it. This brings on an offer of marriage from him. How it went off, 85 XLV. Lovelace to Belford.-He confesses his XLVI. Joseph Leman to Mr Lovelace.-With intelligence of a design formed against him by the Harlowes. Joseph's vile hypocrisy and self- XLVII. Lovelace. In answer.-Story of Miss Betterton. Boast of his treatment to his mis- tresses. The artful use he makes of Joseph's XLVIII. Clarissa to her aunt Hervey.-Com- plains of her silence. Hints at her not having designed to go away with Lovelace. She will XLIX. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Observations LIII. LIV. From the same.-Now indeed is her heart broken, she says. A solemn curse laid upon LV. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-A letter full of LVI. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-A faithful friend the medicine of life. She is just setting out for London. Lovelace has offered marriage to her in so unreserved a manner, that she wishes she had never written with diffidence of him. Is sorry it was not in her power to comply with his carnest solicitations. Returns her Norris: and LVII. LVIII. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Sorry she has returned her Norris. Wishes she had accepted of Lovelace's unreserved offer of mar- riage. Believes herself to have a sneaking kind- ness for Hickman: and why. She blames Mrs In answer to Letter LVII. Clarissa states the dif- ference in the characters of Mr Lovelace and Mr Hickman; and tells her, that her motives for suspending marriage were not merely cere- monious ones. Regrets Mrs Howe's forbidding the correspondence between them. Her dutiful apology for her own mother. Lesson to chil- LIX. Lovelace to Belford.-Thinks he shall be inevitably manacled at last. The lady's extreme illness. Her filial piety gives her dreadful faith in a father's curses. She lets not Miss Howe know how very ill she was. His vows of mar- riage bring her back to life. Absolutely in car- nest in those vows. [The only time he was so.] He can now talk of love and marriage with- out check. Descants upon Belford's letter, LX. From the same. Is setting out for London. A struggle with his heart. Owns it to be a vil- lain of a heart. A fit of strong, but transitory remorse. If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife. Thinks it would be bet- for both not to marry. His libertine reasons. LXI. From the same. They arrive at Mrs Sin- clair's. Sally Martin and Polly Horton set upon him. He wavers in his good purposes. cas's character. He has two great points to car- LXII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Likes her lod- gings; but not greatly the widow. Chides Miss Howe for her rash, though friendly vow. Cata- logue of good books she finds in her closet. Ut- terly dissatisfied with him for giving out to the women below that they were privately married. Has a strong debate with him on this subject. He offers matrimony to her, but in such a man- ner that she could not close with his offer. Her caution as to doors, windows, and seals of letters, 112 LXIII. Miss Howe to Clarissa. Her expedient LXIV. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Breakfasts with him and the widow, and her two nieces. Obser- vations upon their behaviour and looks. He makes a inerit of leaving her, and hopes, ON HIS RETURN, that she will name his happy In his next letter (extracts from which are only given) he triumphs on the points he has carried. Stimulated by the women, he resumes his reso- lution to try her to the utmost,. LXV. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Lovelace returns the next day. She thinks herself meanly treat- ed, and is angry. He again urges marriage; but before she can return an answer makes another proposal; yet she suspects not that he means a studied delay. He is in treaty for Mrs Fretch- ville's house. Description of it. An inviting opportunity offers for him to propose matrimony to her. She wonders he let it slip. He is very urgent for her company at a collation he is to give to four of his select friends, and Miss Part- ington. He gives an account who Miss Part- In Mr Lovelace's next letter he invites Belford, Mowbray, Belton, and Tourville, to his colla- tion. His humourous instructions for their be- LXVI. Lovelace to Belford. Has been at church with Clarissa. The Sabbath a charming insti- tution. The text startles him. Nathan the pro- phet he calls a good ingenious fellow. She likes the women better than she did at first. She re- luctantly consents to honour his collation with her presence. Longs to have their opinions of his fair prize. Describes her to great advantage, 124 LXVII. Clarissa to Miss Howe. She praises his good behaviour at St Paul's. Is prevailed on to dine with Mrs Sinclair and her nieces. Is better pleased with them than she thought she should be. Blames herself for her readiness to censure, where reputation is concerned. Her charitable allowances on this head. This day an agreeable day. Interprets everything she can fairly interpret in Mr Lovelace's favour. She could prefer him to all the men she ever knew, if he would always be what he had been that day. Is determined, however, to be governed in her affections, as much as possible, by true merit, and by deeds. Dates again, and is of- fended at Miss Partington's being introduced to her, and at his making her yield to be present LXVIII. From the same.-Disgusted with her LXIX. Clarissa to Miss Howe. An attempt to induce her to admit Miss Partington to a share in her bed for that night. She refuses. Her reasons. Is highly dissatisfied,. LXX. From the same. Has received an angry letter from Mrs Howe, forbidding her to corre- spond with her daughter. She advises compli- ance, though against herself; and, to induce her to it, makes the best of her present prospects, 131 LXXI. Miss Howe. In answer.-Flames out LXXII. Clarissa. In reply.—Terrified at her ib. 133 ib. LXXIX. Belford. In reply. Still warmly ar- gues in behalf of the lady. Is obliged to attend a dying uncle; and entreats him to write from time to time an account of all his proceedings, 140 LXXX. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Lovelace, she says, complains of the reserves he gives occasion for. His pride a dirty low pride, which has eaten up his prudence. He is sunk in her opi- nion. An afflicting letter sent her from her Encloses the letter. In which her cousin (swayed by the representation of her brother) pleads in behalf of Solmes, and the family views; and sets before her, in strong and just lights, the Her heavy reflections upon the contents. Her ge- LXXXI. Clarissa to Miss Howc.-He presses her to go abroad with him; yet mentions not 141 play. The title of it, The Quarrelsome Lovers. LXXXV. Clarissa. In reply.-Has a contest with Lovelace about going to church. He 148 LXXXVII. Mrs Norton. In answer, LXXXVIII. Miss Howe. In reply, XC. Miss Howe to Clarissa. Fruitless issue of Mr Hickman's application to her uncle. Ad- vises her how to proceed with, and what to say to, Lovelace. Endeavours to account for his teazing ways. Who knows, she says, but her dear friend was permitted to swerve, in order to bring about his reformation. Informs her of her uncle Antony's intended address to her mother, 158 XCI. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Hard fate to be thrown upon an ungenerous and cruel man. Reasons why she cannot proceed with Mr Love- XCII. From the same.-Interesting conversation XCIV. From the same. Mr Lovelace presses for the day; yet makes a proposal which must ne- cessarily occasion a delay. Her unreserved and pathetic answer to it. He is affected by it. She rejoices that he is penetrable. He presses for her instant resolution; but at the same time in- sinuates delay. Seeing her displeased, he urges wanting to reward himself, as if he had obliged her, she repulses him on a liberty he would have taken. He is enraged. Her melancholy reflections on her future prospects with such a man. The moral she deduces from her story. [A note, defending her conduct from the cen- sure which passed upon her as over nice,]. . 166 Extracts from four of his letters; in which he XCV. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Is enraged at his delays. Will think of some scheme to get her out of his hands. Has no notion that he can or dare to mean her dishonour. Women do not naturally hate such men as Lovelace, . . . 170 XCVI. Belford to Lovelace.-Warmly espouses XCVIII. Lovelace to Belford.-He ludicrously turns Belford's arguments against him. Re- sistance inflames him. Why the gallant is pre- ferred to the husband. Gives a piece of advice to married women. Substance of his letter to Lord M., desiring him to give the lady to him in person. His view in this letter. Ridicules Lord M. for his proverbs. Ludicrous advice to XCIX. Belford to Lovelace.-Sets forth the folly, C. Lovelace to Belford.-Affects to mistake the in- tention of Belford's letter, and thanks him for approving his present scheme. The seduction progress is more delightful to him, he says, CI. From the same. All extremely happy at pre- CII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Gives the particu- lars of the overheard conversation. Thinks her prospects a little mended. Is willing to com- poand for tolerable appearances, and to hope, CIII. Miss Howe to Clarissa. Her scheme of ib. CIV. From the same. Her account of Antony and revenge upon the contents of them. Mena- ces Hickman. Wishes Miss Howe had come up to town, as she threatened, CVII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Is terrified by him. Disclaims prudery. Begs of Miss Howe to perfect her scheme, that she may leave him. She thinks her temper changed for the worse. Trembles to look back upon his encroachments. Is afraid, on the close self-examination which CIX. From the same.-Copy of the transcribed paper. It proves to be her torn answer to his proposals. Meekness the glory of a woman. Ludicrous image of a termagant wife. He had better never to have seen this paper. Has very strong remorses. Paints them in lively colours. Sets forth the lady's transcendant virtue, and greatness of mind. Surprised into these argu- ments in her favour by his conscience. Puts it CX. From the same. Memnell scruples to aid him farther in his designs. Vapourish people the physical tribe's milch-cows. Advice to the faculty. Has done with his project about Mrs Fretchville's house. The lady suspects him. A seasonable letter for him from his cousin Char- lotte. Sends up the letter to the lady. She writes to Miss Howe, upon perusing it, to sus- pend for the present her application to Mrs CXI. From the same.-An interview all placid 209 another proverbial letter he has sent him. Per- Extract from a letter of Clarissa.-After giving Miss Howe an account of the present favour- able appearances, she desires her to keep to her- CXV. Lovelace to Belford.-His projected plot 220 222 PAGE. 241 Again makes Belford object, in order to explain . 217 | CXXVI. Lovelace to Belford.-Has made the lady more than once look about her. She owns that he is more than indifferent to her. Checks him with sweetness of temper for his encroach- ing freedoms. Her proof of true love. He ridi- cules marriage purity. Severely reflects upon public freedoms between men and their wives. Advantage he once made upon such an occasion. Has been after a licence. Difficulty in procuring one. Great faults and great virtues often in the same person. He is willing to believe that wo- men have no souls. His whimsical reasons, CXXVII. From the same.-Almost despairs of succeeding (as he had hoped) by love and gen- tleness. Praises her modesty. His encroaching freedoms resented by her. The woman, he ob- serves, who resents not initiatory freedoms, must be lost. He reasons, in his free way, upon her delicacy. Art of the eastern monarchs, CXXVIII. From the same.-A letter from Cap- tain Tomlinson makes all up. Her uncle Har- lowe's pretended proposal big with art and plau- sible delusion. She acquiesces in it. He writes to the pretended Tomlinson, on an affecting hint of hers, requesting that her uncle Harlowe would, in person, give his niece to him, or permit Tom- linson to be his proxy on the occasion. And now for a little mine, he says, which he has ready to CXXIX. Belford to Lovelace.-Again earnestly expostulates with him in the lady's favour. Re- members and applauds the part she bore in the conversation at his collation. The frothy wit of libertines how despicable. Censures the folly, the weakness, the grossness, the unpermanency of sensual love. Calls some of his contrivances trite, stale, and poor. Beseeches him to remove her from the vile house. How many dreadful stories could the horrid Sinclair tell the sex! Scrious reflections on the dying state of his CXXX. Lovelace to Belford.-Cannot yet pro- CXVI. From the same.--Fresh contrivances CXVIII. From the same.An account of his ipecacuanha plot. Instructs Dorcas how to act surprise and terror. Monosyllables and trisyl- lables to what likened. Politeness lives not in a storm. Proclamation criers. The lady now he sees loves him. Her generous tenderness for him. He has now credit for a new score. De- CXIX. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Acknowledged CXXIII. From the same.He makes such a fair |