See the preceding Letter. ↩
See the next Letter. ↩
See Letter 175. ↩
See Letter 261. ↩
See Letter 171. ↩
Mrs. Norton, having only the family representation and invectives to form her judgment upon, knew not that Clarissa had determined against going off with Mr. Lovelace; nor how solicitous she had been to procure for herself any other protection than his, when she apprehended that, if she stayed, she had no way to avoid being married to Mr. Solmes. ↩
See the next letter. ↩
See Letter 229. ↩
See Letter 252. ↩
See Letter 275. ↩
The letter she encloses was Mr. Lovelace’s forged one. See Letter 239. ↩
See Letter 238. ↩
See Letter 240. ↩
His forged letter. See Letter 239. ↩
It is proper to observe, that there was a more natural reason than this that the Lady gives for Mr. Lovelace’s blushing. It was a blush of indignation, as he owned afterwards to his friend Belford, in conversation; for the pretended Lady Betty had mistaken her cue, in condemning the house; and he had much ado to recover the blunder; being obliged to follow her lead, and vary from his first design; which was to have the people of the house spoken well of, in order to induce her to return to it, were it but on pretence to direct her clothes to be carried to Hampstead. ↩
The attentive reader need not be referred back for what the Lady nevertheless could not account for, as she knew not that Mr. Lovelace had come at Miss Howe’s letters; particularly that in Letter 183 which he comments upon in Letter 183. ↩
See Letter 239. ↩
See Letter 229. ↩
See Letter 251. ↩
Dr. Lewen, in Letter 427 presses her to this public prosecution, by arguments worthy of his character; which she answers in a manner worthy of hers. See Letter 428. ↩
See the note in Letter 315. ↩
The seven-o’clock prayers at St. Dunstan’s have been since discontinued. ↩
See Letter 320. ↩
See Letter 330. ↩
See Letter 252. ↩
See Letter 339. ↩
See Letter 336. ↩
This was printed as June in the published work but is clearly an error. —Editor ↩
See Mr. Lovelace’s billet to Miss Howe, Letter 332. ↩
See Letter 344. ↩
The 24th of July, Miss Clarissa Harlowe’s birthday. ↩
See the preceding Letter. ↩
See Letter 327. ↩
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 ↩
See Letter 343. ↩
See Letter 360. ↩
She takes in the time that she appointed to meet Mr. Lovelace. ↩
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. ↩
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
