Clarissa Harlowe

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See Letter 329. ↩

See Letter 332. ↩

See Letter 328. ↩

Those parts of this letter which are marked with an angle quote (thus ‹) were afterwards transcribed by Miss Howe in Letter 373 written to the Ladies of Mr. Lovelace’s family; and are thus distinguished to avoid the necessity of repeating them in that letter. ↩

See Letter 318. ↩

See Letter 308. ↩

See Letter 144. ↩

This was erroneously given as Thursday in the original.

—⁠Editor

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See Letter 343. ↩

See Letter 360. ↩

She takes in the time that she appointed to meet Mr. Lovelace. ↩

Letters 364, 365, 366. ↩

See Letter 365. ↩

See Letter 365. ↩

See Letter 364. ↩

Mr. Lovelace could not know, that the lady was so thoroughly sensible of the solidity of this doctrine, as she really was: for, in her letter to Mrs. Norton, (Letter 362), she says⁠—“Nor let it be imagined, that my present turn of mind proceeds from gloominess or melancholy: for although it was brought on by disappointment, (the world showing me early, even at my first rushing into it, its true and ugly face), yet I hope, that it has obtained a better root, and will every day more and more, by its fruits, demonstrate to me, and to all my friends, that it has.” ↩

In Lithuania, the women are said to have so allowedly their gallants, called adjutores, that the husbands hardly ever enter upon any part of pleasure without them. ↩

See Letter 208. ↩

See Letter 366. ↩

See Letter 364. ↩

See Letter 364 and Letter 386. ↩

See Letter 366. ↩

See Letter 366. ↩

See Letter 80. ↩

Dr. Lewen. ↩

See Letter 373. ↩

See Letter 359. ↩

See Miss Harlowe’s Letter 386. ↩

See Letter 386. ↩

See the paragraph marked with an angle quote (thus ‹), Letter 388. ↩

In the fire-scene,Letter 225. ↩

Letter 281 in the penknife-scene. ↩

See Letter 402. ↩

1.	A letter from Miss Montague, dated	Aug. 1.
2.	A copy of my answer	Aug. 3.
3.	Mr. Belford’s Letter to me, which will show you what my request was to him, and his compliance with it; and the desired extracts from his friend’s letters	Aug. 3, 4.
4.	A copy of my answer, with thanks; and requesting him to undertake the executor-ship	Aug. 4.
5.	Mr. Belford’s acceptance of the trust	Aug. 4.
6.	Miss Montague’s letter, with a generous offer from Lord M. and the Ladies of that family	Aug. 7.
7.	Mr. Lovelace’s to me	Aug. 7.
8.	Copy of mine to Miss Montague, in answer to hers of the day before	Aug. 8.
9.	Copy of my answer to Mr. Lovelace	Aug. 11.

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See Letter 32. ↩

1.	A copy of mine to my sister, begging off my father’s malediction	dated July 21
2.	My sister’s answer	dated July 27
3.	Copy of my second letter to my sister	dated July 29
4.	My sister’s answer	dated Aug. 3
5.	Copy of my Letter to my mother	dated Aug. 5
6.	My uncle Harlowe’s letter	dated Aug. 7
7.	Copy of my answer to it	dated the 10th
8.	Letter from my uncle Antony	dated the 12th
9.	And lastly, the copy of my answer to it	dated the 13th

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She means that of making Mr. Belford her executor. ↩

For what these gentlemen mean by the Roman style, see Letter 31 in the first note. ↩

See Letter 399. ↩

Textual error: was shown in original as Aug. 15.

—⁠Editor

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Mr. Belford’s objections, That virtue ought not to suffer in a tragedy, is not well considered: Monimia in the Orphean, Belvidera in Venice Preserved, Athenais in Theodosius, Cordelia in Shakespeare’s King Lear, Desdemona in Othello, Hamlet, (to name no more), are instances that a tragedy could hardly be justly called a tragedy, if virtue did not temporarily suffer, and vice for a while triumph. But he recovers himself in the same paragraph; and leads us to look up to the future for the reward of virtue, and for the punishment of guilt: and observes not amiss, when he says, He knows not but that the virtue of such a woman as Clarissa is rewarded in missing such a man as Lovelace. ↩

See Letter 429. ↩

The Rev Mr. Norris, of Bremerton. ↩

Madam Maintenon was reported to have prevailed upon Louis XIV of France, in his old age, (sunk, as he was, by ill success in the field), to marry her, by way of compounding with his conscience for the freedoms of his past life, to which she attributed his public losses. ↩

This man came from her cousin Morden; as will be seen hereafter, Letters 455 and 459. ↩

Letter 429. ↩

Explained in Letter 431. ↩

The stiff visit this good divine was prevailed upon to make her, as mentioned in Letter 75 (of which, however, she was too generous to remind him) might warrant the lady to think that he had rather inclined to their party, as to the parental side, than to hers. ↩

See Letter 407.