Clarissa, Volume 5

Clarissa, Volume 5

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Title: Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)
Author: Samuel Richardson
Release Date: January 23, 2004 [EBook #10799]
Language: English
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CLARISSA HARLOWE
or the
HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY
Nine Volumes
Volume V.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V
LETTER I. Lovelace to Belford.-- An agreeable airing with the lady.
Delightfully easy she. Obsequiously respectful he. Miss Howe's plot
now no longer his terror. Gives the particulars of their agreeable
conversation while abroad.

LETTER II. From the same.-- An account of his ipecacuanha plot.
Instructs Dorcas how to act surprise and terror. Monosyllables and
trisyllables to what likened. Politeness lives not in a storm.
Proclamation criers. The lady now sees she loves him. Her generous
tenderness for him. He has now credit for a new score. Defies Mrs.
Townsend.
LETTER III. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-- Acknowledged tenderness for
Lovelace. Love for a man of errors punishable.
LETTER IV. Lovelace to Belford.-- Suspicious inquiry after him and
the lady by a servant in livery from one Captain Tomlinson. Her terrors
on the occasion. His alarming management. She resolves not to stir
abroad. He exults upon her not being willing to leave him.
LETTER V. VI. From the same.-- Arrival of Captain Tomlinson, with a
pretended commission from Mr. John Harlowe to set on food a general
reconciliation, provided he can be convinced that they are actually
married. Different conversations on this occasion.--The lady insists that
the truth be told to Tomlinson. She carries her point through to the
disappointment of one of his private views. He forms great hopes of
success from the effects of his ipecacuanha contrivance.
LETTER VII. Lovelace to Belford.-- He makes such a fair
representation to Tomlinson of the situation between him and the lady,
behaves so plausibly, and makes an overture so generous, that she is all
kindness and unreserved to him. Her affecting exultation on her
amended prospects. His unusual sensibility upon it. Reflection on the
good effects of education. Pride an excellent substitute to virtue.
LETTER VIII. From the same.-- Who Tomlinson is. Again makes
Belford object, in order to explain his designs by answering the
objections. John Harlowe a sly sinner. Hard- hearted reasons for giving
the lady a gleam of joy. Illustrated by a story of two sovereigns at war.
Extracts from Clarissa's letter to Miss Howe. She rejoices in her present
agreeable prospects. Attributes much to Mr. Hickman. Describes
Captain Tomlinson. Gives a character of Lovelace, [which is necessary
to be attended to: especially by those who have thought favourably of
him for some of his liberal actions, and hardly of her for the distance
she at first kept him at.]
LETTER IX. Lovelace to Belford.-- Letter from Lord M. His further
arts and precautions. His happy day promised to be soon. His opinion

of the clergy, and of going to church. She pities every body who wants
pity. Loves every body. He owns he should be the happiest of men,
could he get over his prejudices against matrimony. Draughts of
settlements. Ludicrously accounts for the reason why she refuses to
hear them read to her. Law and gospel two different things. Sally flings
her handkerchief in his face.
LETTER X. From the same.-- Has made the lady more than once look
about her. She owns that he is more than indifferent to her. Checks him
with sweetness of temper for his encroaching freedoms. Her proof of
true love. He ridicules marriage purity. Severely reflects upon public
freedoms between men and their wives. Advantage he once made upon
such an occasion. Has been after a license. Difficulty in procuring one.
Great faults and great virtues often in the same person. He is willing to
believe that women have no souls. His whimsical reasons.
LETTER XI. Lovelace to Belford.-- Almost despairs of succeeding (as
he had hoped) by love and gentleness. Praises her modesty. His
encroaching freedoms resented by her. The woman, he observes, who
resents not initiatory freedoms, must be lost. He reasons, in his free
way, upon her delicacy. Art of the Eastern monarchs.
LETTER XII. From the same.-- A letter from Captain Tomlinson
makes all up. Her uncle Harlowe's pretended proposal big with art and
plausible delusion. She acquiesces in it. He writes to the pretended
Tomlinson, on an affecting hint of her's, requesting that her uncle
Harlowe would, in person, give