Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2. Сэмюэл Ричардсон
the freedom Clarissa apologizes for.
5
Henry VII.
6
See Vol. I. Letter XXVIII.
7
Spectator, Vol. VIII. No. 599.
8
Perhaps it will be unnecessary to remind the reader, that although Mr. Lovelace proposes (as above) to Miss Howe, that her fair friend should have recourse to the protection of Mrs. Howe, if farther driven; yet he had artfully taken care, by means of his agent in the Harlowe family, not only to inflame the family against her, but
1
See Letter XLII. of Vol. I.
2
Ibid.
3
See Letter XL, ibid.
4
See Vol. I, Letter XXXVII, for the occasion; and Letters XXXVIII. and XL. of the same volume, for the freedom Clarissa apologizes for.
5
Henry VII.
6
See Vol. I. Letter XXVIII.
7
Spectator, Vol. VIII. No. 599.
8
Perhaps it will be unnecessary to remind the reader, that although Mr. Lovelace proposes (as above) to Miss Howe, that her fair friend should have recourse to the protection of Mrs. Howe, if farther driven; yet he had artfully taken care, by means of his agent in the Harlowe family, not only to inflame the family against her, but to deprive her of Mrs. Howe's, and of every other protection, being from the first resolved to reduce her to an absolute dependence upon himself. See Vol. I. Letter XXXI.
9
See Vol. I. Letter XXXVI.
10
These violent measures, and the obstinate perseverance of the whole family in them, will be the less wondered at, when it is considered, that all the time they were but as so many puppets danced upon Mr. Lovelace's wires, as he boasts, Vol. I. Letter XXXI.