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in his favour is exactly what he had hoped for. See Letter 117. ↩

See this confirmed by Mr. Lovelace, Letter 103. ↩

See Letter 120. ↩

See Letter 111. ↩

See Letter 98. ↩

See Letter 98. ↩

See Letters 2 and 3. ↩

See Letter 100. ↩

The reader will see how Miss Howe accounts for this, in Letter 128. ↩

Luke 15:7. The parable is concerning the Ninety-nine Sheep, not the Prodigal Son, as Mr. Lovelace erroneously imagines. ↩

See Letter 116. ↩

The reader, perhaps, need not be reminded that he had taken care from the first (see Letter 31) to deprive her of any protection from Mrs. Howe. See in his next letter, a repeated account of the same artifices, and his exultations upon his inventions to impose upon the two such watchful ladies as Clarissa and Miss Howe. ↩

See Letter 81. ↩

The reader is referred to Mr. Lovelace’s next letter, for his motives in making the several proposals of which the Lady is willing to think so well. ↩

Antonio Perez was first minister of Philip II king of Spain, by whose command he caused Don Juan de Escovedo to be assassinated: which brought on his own ruin, through the perfidy of his viler master.

—⁠Gedde’s Tracts

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See Letters 139 and 140. ↩

See Letter 123. ↩

See Letter 128. ↩

See Letters 59 and 60. ↩

The contents of the Letter referred to are given in Letter 116. ↩

The reader who has seen his account, which Miss Howe could not have seen, when she wrote thus, will observe that it was not possible for a person of her true delicacy of mind to act otherwise than she did, to a man so cruelly and so insolently artful. ↩

See Letter 137. ↩

See Letter 91. ↩

See Letter 110. ↩

See Letter 118. ↩

This letter was from Miss Arabella Harlowe. See Letter 147. ↩

See Letter 91. ↩

Notwithstanding what Mrs. Hervey here says, it will be hereafter seen that this severe letter was written in private concert with the implacable Arabella. ↩

Mr. Lovelace, in his next Letter, tells his friend how extremely ill the Lady was, recovering from fits to fall into stronger fits, and nobody expecting her life. She had not, he says, acquainted Miss Howe how very ill she was.⁠—In the next Letter, she tells Miss Howe, that her motives for suspending were not merely ceremonious ones. ↩

See Letter 127 and Letter 128. ↩

See Letter 128. ↩

See Letter 110. ↩

See Letter 109. ↩

See Letter 131. ↩

See Letter 155. See also Letter 155. ↩

See Letter 130. ↩

Mr. Belford, in Letter 222 reminds Mr. Lovelace of some particular topics which passed in their conversation, extremely to the Lady’s honour. ↩

See Letter 222 above referred to. ↩

See Letter 115 Paragr. 4. ↩

See Letter 143 Paragr. 9. ↩

Phyl-tits, q. d. Phyllis-tits, in opposition to Tom-tits. It needs not now be observed, that Mr. Lovelace, in this wanton gaiety of his heart, often takes liberties of coining words and phrases in his letters to this his familiar friend. See his ludicrous reason for it in Letter 117. Paragr. antepenult. ↩

See Letter 3. ↩

See Letter 144. ↩

See Letter 100. ↩

See Letter 158. ↩

Clarissa proposes Mr. Hickman to write for Miss Howe. See Letter 165, Paragr. 5, & ult. ↩

See Letter 173. ↩

See Letter 120. ↩

See Letter 4. ↩

See Letter 12. ↩

See Letter 98. ↩

We cannot forbear observing in this place, that the Lady has been particularly censured, even by some of her own sex, as overnice in her part of the above conversations: but surely this must be owing to want of attention to the circumstances she was in, and to her character, as well as to the character of the man she had to deal with: for, although she could not be supposed to know so much of his designs as the reader does by means of his letters to Belford, yet she was but too well convinced of his faulty morals, and of the necessity there was, from the whole of his behaviour to her, to keep such an encroacher, as she frequently calls him, at a distance. In Letter 125 the reader will see, that upon some favourable appearances she blames herself for her readiness to suspect him. But his character, his principles, said she, are so faulty!⁠—He is so light, so vain, so various.⁠—Then, my dear, I have no guardian to depend upon. In Letter 125 Must I not with such a man, says she, be wanting to myself, were I not jealous and vigilant?

By this time the reader will see, that she had still greater