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Clarissa Harlowe Or The History of A Young Lady, V9
Clarissa Harlowe Or The History of A Young Lady V9 Author:Samuel Richardson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: effects of triumphant libertinism! Sooner or later it comes home to us, and all concludes in gall and bitterness! Adieu. J. Belford. LETTER IV MR. LO... more »VELACE, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ. Curse upon the Colonel, and curse upon the writer of the last letter I received, and upon all the world! Thou to pretend to be as much interested in my Clarissa's fate as myself!—'Tis well for one of us that this was not said to me, instead of written.— Living or dying, she is mine—and only mine. Have I not earned her dearly ?—Is not d n n likely to be the purchase to me, though a happy eternity will be her's ? An eternal separation !—O God ! O God !—How can I bear that thought !—But yet there is life !—Yet, therefore, hope—enlarge my hope, and thou shalt be my good genius, and I will forgive thee every thing. For this last time—but it must not, shall not be the last—Let me hear, the moment thou receivest this— what I am to be—for, at present, I am The most miserable of Men. Rose, at Knightsbridge, Five o'clock. My fellow tells me that thou art sending Mowbray and Tourville to me :—I want them not—my soul's sick of them, and of all the world—but most of myself. Yet, as they send me word they will come to meimmediately, I will wait for them, and for thy next. O Belford, let it not be But hasten it, hasten it, be what it may! LETTER V MR. BELFORD, TO ROBERT LOVELACE, ESQ. Seven o'clock, Thursday Evening, Sept. 7. I Have only to say at present—Thou wilt do well to take a tour to Paris ; or wherever else thy destiny shall lead thee ! John Belford. LETTER VI MR. MOWBRAY, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ. Uxbridge, Sept. 7, between Eleven and Twelve at Night. Dear Jack, I send, by poor Lovelace's desire, for particulars of the fatal breviate thou sentest ...« less