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her to the utmost. The honour of the whole sex
concerned in the issue of her trial. Matrimony,
he sees, is in his power, now she is,
XVIII. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Will not obey
her mother in her prohibition of their corre-
spondence and why. Is charmed with her
spirit,
XIX. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Knows not what
she can do with Lovelace. He may thank him-
self for the trouble he has had on her account.
Did she ever, she asks, make him any promises?
Did she ever receive him as a lover?

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-

rified,

XXII. Lovelace to Belford.-Rejoices in the stu-
pidity of the Harlowes. Exults in his capacity
for mischief. The condescensions to which he
intends to bring the lady. Libertine observations
to the disadvantage of women; which may serve
as cautions to the sex,

His pro-

XXIII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-A conversation
with Mr Lovelace wholly agreeable.
mises of reformation. She remembers, to his
advantage, his generosity to his Rosebud and
his tenants. Writes to her aunt Harvey,

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
with out-of-the-way words and phrases, .
XXVI. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-How to judge
of Lovelace's suspicious proposals and promises.
Hickman devoted to their service. Yet she treats
him with ridicule,

XXVII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Lovelace com-
plains, she hears, to Mrs Greme, of her adhering
to her injunctions. What means he by it, she
asks, yet forego such opportunities as he had?
She is punished for her vanity in hoping to be
an example. Blames Miss Howe for her beha-
viour to Hickman,
XXVIII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Warm dia-
logues with Lovelace. She is displeased with
him for his affectedly-bashful hints of matri-
mony. Mutual recriminations. He looks upon
her as his, she says, by a strange sort of obliga-
tion, for having run away with her against her
will. Yet but touches on the edges of matri-
mony neither. She is sick of herself,
XXIX. From the same.-Mr Lovelace a perfect
Proteus. He now applauds her for that treat-
ment of him which before he had resented; and
communicates to her two letters, one from Lady
Betty Lawrence, the other from Miss Montague.
She wonders that he did not produce those let-
ters before, as he must know they would be
highly acceptable to her,

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-

ton to her. She is ready to blame herself for her

doubts of him; but gives reasons for her caution.

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He writes by her consent to his friend Doleman,
to procure lodgings for her in town,
XXXIV. Lovelace to Belford.-Glories in his
contrivances. Gives an advantageous descrip-
tion of Clarissa's behaviour. Exults on her
mentioning London. None but impudent girls,
he says, should run away with a man. His far-
ther views, plots, and designs,
XXXV. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Humorously
touches on her reproofs in relation to Hickman.
Observations on smooth love. Lord M.'s family
greatly admire her. Approves of her spirited
treatment of Lovelace, and of her going to Lon-
don. Hints at the narrowness of her own mother.
Advises her to keep fair with Lovelace,
XXXVI. XXXVII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.---
Wonders not that her brother has weight to
make her father irreconcilable. Copy of Mr
Doleman's answer about London lodgings. Her
caution in her choice of them. Lovelace has
given her five guineas for Hannah. Other in-
stances of his considerateness. Not displeased
with her present prospects,
XXXVIII. Lovelace to Belford.—Explains what
is meant by Doleman's answer about the lod-
gings. Makes Belford object to his scheme,
that he may answer the objections. Exults.
Swells. Despises everybody. Importance of
the minutia. More of his arts, views, and con-
trivances,

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

been slapt by her. Observations on managing

wives,

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71

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75

76

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

the correspondence. Some excuses for herself.

Humorous story of game-chickens,

84

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

artful intentions in the offer of marriage: yet

had like, he says, to have been caught in his

own snares,

XLVI. Joseph Leman to Mr Lovelace.-With

intelligence of a design formed against him by

the Harlowes. Joseph's vile hypocrisy and self-

ishness,

XLVII. Lovelace. In answer.-Story of Miss

Betterton. Boast of his treatment to his mis-

tresses. The artful use he makes of Joseph's

intelligence,

XLVIII. Clarissa to her aunt Hervey.-Com-

plains of her silence. Hints at her not having

designed to go away with Lovelace. She will

open her whole heart to her, if she encourage

her so to do, by the hopes of a reconciliation,

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XLIX. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-Observations
on Lovelace's meanness, pride, and revenge.
Politeness not to be expected from him. She
raves at him for the artful manner in which he
urges Clarissa to marry him. Advises her how
to act in her present situation,
La Belford to Lovelace.-Becomes a warm advo-
cate for the lady. Gives many instructive reasons
to enforce his arguments in her favour,
LI. Mrs Hervey to Clarissa.-A severe and cruel
letter in answer to hers, Letter XLVIII. It was
not designed, she says, absolutely to force her to
marry to her dislike,
LII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Her deep regret,
on this intelligence, for having met Lovelace.
The finer sensibilities make not happy. Her
fate too visibly in his power. He is unpolite,
cruel, insolent, unwise, a trifler with his own
happiness. Her reasons why she less likes him
than ever. Her soul his soul's superior. He
fortitude. Her prayer,

LIII. LIV. From the same.-Now indeed is her

heart broken, she says. A solemn curse laid upon

her by her father. Her sister's barbarous letters

on the occasion,

LV. Miss Howe to Clarissa.-A letter full of
generous consolation and advice. Her friendly
Vow. Sends her fifty guineas in the leaves of a
Norris's miscellanies,

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

why,

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

Harlowe and why,

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-

dren.

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,

No. L.

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.

Lessons to the sex,

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.

Dorcas Wykes proposed, and reluctantly accept-

ed for a servant, till Hannah can come.

Dor-

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cas's character. He has two great points to car-

ry. What they are,

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
to correspond with each other every day. Is
glad she had thoughts of marrying him had he
repeated his offer. Wonders he did not,

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

day. She is willing to make the best construc-

tions in his favour,

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-

ington is,

In Mr Lovelace's next letter he invites Belford,

Mowbray, Belton, and Tourville, to his colla-

tion. His humourous instructions for their be-

haviour before the lady. Has two views in get-

ting her into their company.

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119

120.

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

at his intended collation,

126

LXVIII. From the same.-Disgusted with her

evening. Characterizes his four companions.

Likes not Miss Partington's behaviour, . . . 127

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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,.

. . 130

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
upon this step of her mother. Insists upon con-
tinuing the correspondence. Her menaces if
Clarissa write not. Raves against Lovelace.
But blames her for not obliging Miss Parting-
ton; and why. Advises her to think of settle-
ments. Likes Lovelace's proposal of Mrs
Fretchville's house,

LXXII. Clarissa. In reply.—Terrified at her
menaces, she promises to continue writing. Be-
seeches her to learn to subdue her passions. Has
just received her clothes,
LXXIII. Mr Hickman to Clarissa.--Miss
Howe, he tells her, is uneasy for the vexation
she has given her. If she will write on as before,
Miss Howe will not think of doing what she is
so apprehensive of. He offers her his most
faithful services,
LXXIV. LXXV. Lovelace to Belford.-Tells
him how much the lady dislikes the confrater-
nity; Belford as well as the rest. Has had a
warm debate with her in her behalf. Looks
upon her refusing a share in her bed to Miss
Partington as suspecting and defying him.
Threatens her. Savagely glories in her grief,
on receiving Mrs Howe's prohibitory letter;
which appears to be instigated by himself,
LXXVI. Belford to Lovelace.-His and his com-
peers' high admiration of Clarissa. They all
join to entreat him to do her justice,
LXXVII. LXXVIII. Lovelace. In answer.-
Endeavours to palliate his purposes by familiar
instances of cruelty to birds, &c.-Farther cha-
racteristic reasonings in support of his wicked
designs. The passive condition to which he
wants to bring the lady,

ib.

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133

ib.

135

136

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

cousin Morden,

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

character of a libertine.

Her heavy reflections upon the contents. Her ge-
nerous prayer.

LXXXI. Clarissa to Miss Howc.-He presses

her to go abroad with him; yet mentions not
the ceremony that should give propriety to his
urgency. Cannot bear the life she lives. Wishes
her uncle Harlowe to be sounded by Mr Hick-
man, as to a reconciliation. Memnell introdu-
ced to her. Will not take another step with
Lovelace till she know the success of the propo-
sed application to her uncle,
Substance of two letters from Lovelace to Bel-
ford; in which he tells him who Memnell is, and
gives an account of many new contrivances and

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play. The title of it, The Quarrelsome Lovers.
Perseverance his glory; patience his hand-maid.
Attempts to get a letter the lady had dropt as
she sat. Her high indignation upon it. Far-
ther plots. Paul Wheatly who, and for what
employed. Sally Martin's reproaches. Has
overplotted himself. Human nature a well-
known rogue,
LXXXIII. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-Acquaints
her with their present quarrel. Finds it impru-
dent to stay with him. Re-urges the applica-
tion to her uncle. Cautions her sex with regard
to the danger of being misled by the eye,
LXXXIV. Miss Howe. In answer.-Approves
of her leaving Lovelace. New stories of his
wickedness. Will have her uncle sounded.
Comforts her. How much her case differs from
that of any other female fugitive. She will be
an example, as well as a warning. A picture of
Clarissa's happiness before she knew Lovelace.
Brief sketches of her exalted character. Adver-
sity her shining time,

LXXXV. Clarissa. In reply.-Has a contest

with Lovelace about going to church. He

obliges her again to accept of his company to St

Paul's,

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155

156

ib.

LXXXVII. Mrs Norton. In answer,

LXXXVIII. Miss Howe. In reply,

LXXXIX. Mrs Harlowe's pathetic letter to

Mrs Norton,

ib.

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-

lace as she advises. Affecting apostrophe to

Lovelace,

160

XCII. From the same.-Interesting conversation
with Lovelace. He frightens her. He men-
tions settlements. Her modest encouragements
of him. He evades. True generosity what. She
requires his proposals of settlements in writing.
Examines herself on her whole conduct to Love-
lace. Maidenly niceness not her motive for the
distance she has kept him at. What his. In-
vites her correction if she deceives herself,
XCIII. From the same.-With Mr Lovelace's
written proposals. Her observations on the cold
conclusion of them. He knows not what every
wise man knows, of the prudence and delicacy
required in a wife,

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

for the morrow; but, before she can answer,

gives her the alternative of other days. Yet,

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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
glories in his cruelty. Hardheartedness he owns
to be an essential of the libertine character. En-
joys the confusion of a fine woman.
His apos-
trophe to virtue. Ashamed of being visibly af-
fected. Enraged against her for repulsing him.
Will steel his own heart, that he may cut
through a rock of ice to hers. The women
afresh instigate him to attempt her virtue.

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
the lady's cause. Nothing but vanity and non-
sense in the wild pursuits of libertines. For his
own sake, for his family's sake, and for the sake
of common humanity, he beseeches him to do
the lady justice,
XCVII. Lord M. to Mr Belford.-A proverbial
letter in the lady's favour,

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

Belford in relation to his dying uncle. What

physicians should do when a patient is given

over, .

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176

XCIX. Belford to Lovelace.-Sets forth the folly,
the inconvenience, the impolicy of KEEPING,
and the preference of MARRIAGE, upon the foot
of their own principles, as libertines,

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,

than the crowning act,.

179

CI. From the same. All extremely happy at pre-
sent. Contrives a conversation for the lady to
overhear. Platonic love, how it generally ends.
Will get her to a play; likes not tragedies. Has
too much feeling. Why men of his cast prefer
comedy to tragedy. The nymphs, and Mrs Sin-
clair, and all their acquaintance, of the same
mind. Other artifices of his. Could he have
been admitted in her hours of dishabille and
heedlessness, he had been long ago master of
his wishes. His view in getting her to a play;
a play, and a collation afterwards, greatly be-
friends a lover's designs, and why. She consents
to go with him to see the tragedy of Venice Pre-
served,

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,

when reason for hope offers,

182

CIII. Miss Howe to Clarissa. Her scheme of
Mrs Townsend. Is not for encouraging deal-
ers in prohibited goods; and why. Her humo-
rous treatment of Hickman on consulting him
upon Lovelace's proposals of settlements,

ib.

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CIV. From the same. Her account of Antony
Harlowe's address to her mother, and of what
passed on her mother's communicating it to her.
Copy of Mrs Howe's answer to his letter,
CV. CVI. Lovelace to Belford.-Comes at several
letters of Miss Howe. He is now more assured
of Clarissa than ever; and why. Sparkling eyes,
what they indicate. She keeps him at distance.
Repeated instigations from the women.
count of the letters he has come at.
All rage

and revenge upon the contents of them. Mena-

ces Hickman. Wishes Miss Howe had come

up to town, as she threatened,

190

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
her calamities have caused her to make, that
even in the best actions of her past life she has
not been quite free from secret pride, &c. Tears
almost in two the answer she had written to his
proposals. Intends to go out next day, and not
to return. Her farther intentions,
196
CVIII. Lovelace to Belford.-Meets the lady at
breakfast. Flings the tea-cup and saucer over
his head. The occasion. Alarms and terrifies
her by his free address. Romping, the use of it
to a lover. Will try if she will not yield to
nightly surprises. A lion-hearted lady where
her honour is concerned. Must have recourse
to his master-strokes. Fable of the sun and
north wind. Mrs Fretchville's house an embar-
rass. He gives that pretended lady the small-
pox. Other contrivances in his head to bring
Clarissa back, if she should get away. Miss
Howe's scheme of Mrs Townsend is, he says, a
sword hanging over his head. He must change
his measures to render it abortive. He is of the
true lady-make. What that is. Another con-
versation between them. Her apostrophe to
her father. He is temporally moved. Dorcas
gives him notice of a paper she has come at,
and is transcribing. In order to detain the lady,
he presses for the day. Miss Howe he fancies
in love with him; and why. He sees Clarissa
does not hate him,

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

to flight,

205

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

Townsend,.

CXI. From the same.-An interview all placid
and agreeable. Now is he in a train. All he
now waits for is a letter from Lord M. Inqui-
ries after their marriage by a stranger of good
appearance. The lady alarmed at them,
CXII. Lovelace to Belford.-Curses his uncle for

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