Clarissa, Volume 6

ﳘClarissa, Volume 6 - The History Of A Young Lady

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Title: Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) The History Of A Young Lady
Author: Samuel Richardson
Release Date: February 28, 2004 [EBook #11364]
Language: English
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CLARISSA HARLOWE
or the
HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY
Nine Volumes Volume VI.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI
LETTER I. II. Lovelace to Belford.-- His conditional promise to Tomlinson in the lady's favour. His pleas and arguments on their present situation, and on his darling and hitherto-baffled views. His whimsical contest with his conscience. His latest adieu to it. His strange levity, which he calls gravity, on the death of Belford's uncle.
LETTER III. IV. From the same.-- She favours him with a meeting in the garden. Her composure. Her conversation great and noble. But will not determine any thing in his favour. It is however evident, he says, that she has still some tenderness for him. His reasons. An affecting scene between them. Her ingenuousness and openness of heart. She resolves to go to church; but will not suffer him to accompany her thither. His whimsical debate with the God of Love, whom he introduced as pleading for the lady.
LETTER V. VI. VII. From the same.-- He has got the wished-for letter from Miss Howe.--Informs him of the manner of obtaining it.--His remarks upon it. Observations on female friendships. Comparison between Clarissa and Miss Howe.
LETTER VIII. From the same.-- Another conversation with the lady. His plausible arguments to re-obtain her favour ineffectual. His pride piqued. His revenge incited. New arguments in favour of his wicked prospects. His notice that a license is actually obtained.
LETTER IX. X. From the same.-- Copy of the license; with his observations upon it. His scheme for annual marriages. He is preparing with Lady Betty and Miss Montague to wait upon Clarissa. Who these pretended ladies are. How dressed. They give themselves airs of quality. Humourously instructs them how to act up their assumed characters.
LETTER XI. XII. Lovelace to Belford.-- Once more is the charmer of his soul in her old lodgings. Brief account of the horrid imposture. Steels his heart by revengeful recollections. Her agonizing apprehensions. Temporary distraction. Is ready to fall into fits. But all her distress, all her prayers, her innocence, her virtue, cannot save her from the most villanous outrage.
LETTER XIII. Belford to Lovelace.-- Vehemently inveighs against him. Grieves for the lady. Is now convinced that there must be a world after this to do justice to injured merit. Beseeches him, if he be a man, and not a devil, to do all the poor justice now in his power.
LETTER XIV. Lovelace to Belford.-- Regrets that he ever attempted her. Aims at extenuation. Does he not see that he has journeyed on to this stage, with one determined point in view from the first? She is at present stupified, he says.
LETTER XV. From the same.-- The lady's affecting behaviour in her delirium. He owns that art has been used to her. Begins to feel remorse.
LETTER XVI. From the same.-- The lady writes upon scraps of paper, which she tears, and throws under the table. Copies of ten of these rambling papers; and of a letter to him most affectingly incoherent. He attempts farther to extenuate his villany. Tries to resume his usual levity; and forms a scheme to decoy the people at Hampstead to the infamous woman's in town. The lady seems to be recovering.
LETTER XVII. From the same.-- She attempts to get away in his absence. Is prevented by the odious Sinclair. He exults in the hope of looking her into confusion when he sees her. Is told by Dorcas that she is coming into the dining-room to find him out.
LETTER XVIII. From the same.-- A high scene of her exalted, and of his depressed, behaviour. Offers to make her amends by matrimony. She treats his offer with contempt. Afraid Belford plays him false.
LETTER XIX. From the same.-- Wishes he had never seen her. With all the women he had known till now, it was once subdued, and always subdued. His miserable dejection. His remorse. She attempts to escape. A mob raised. His quick invention to pacify it. Out of conceit with himself and his contrivances.
LETTER XX. XXI. Lovelace to Belford.-- Lord M. very ill. His presence necessary at M. Hall. Puts Dorcas upon ingratiating herself with her lady.--He re-urges marriage to her. She absolutely, from the most noble motives, rejects him.
LETTER XXII. From