Clarissa, Volume 8

Clarissa, Volume 8

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Title: Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8
Author: Samuel Richardson
Release Date: April 27, 2004 [EBook #12180]
Language: English
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CLARISSA HARLOWE
or the
HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY
Nine Volumes Volume VIII.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII
LETTER I. Miss Howe, from the Isle of Wight.-- In answer to her's, No. LXI. of Vol. VII. Approves not of her choice of Belford for her executor; yet thinks she cannot appoint for that office any of her own family. Hopes she will live any years.
LETTER II. Clarissa to Miss Howe.-- Sends her a large packet of letters; but (for her relations' sake) not all she has received. Must now abide by the choice of Mr. Belford for executor; but farther refers to the papers she sends her, for her justification on this head.
LETTER III. Antony Harlowe to Clarissa.-- A letter more taunting and reproachful than that of her other uncle. To what owing.
LETTER IV. Clarissa. In answer.-- Wishes that the circumstances of her case had been inquired into. Concludes with a solemn and pathetic prayer for the happiness of the whole family.
LETTER V. Mrs. Norton to Clarissa.-- Her friends, through Brand's reports, as she imagines, intent upon her going to the plantations. Wishes her to discourage improper visiters. Difficult situations the tests of prudence as well as virtue. Dr. Lewen's solicitude for her welfare. Her cousin Morden arrived in England. Farther pious consolations.
LETTER VI. Clarissa. In answer.-- Sends her a packet of letters, which, for her relations' sake, she cannot communicate to Miss Howe. From these she will collect a good deal of her story. Defends, yet gently blames her mother. Afraid that her cousin Morden will be set against her; or, what is worse, that he will seek to avenge her. Her affecting conclusion on her Norton's divine consolations.
LETTER VII. Lovelace to Belford.-- Is very ill. The lady, if he die, will repent her refusal of him. One of the greatest felicities that can befal a woman, what. Extremely ill. His ludicrous behaviour on awaking, and finding a clergyman and his friends praying for him by his bedside.
LETTER VIII. Belford to Lovelace.-- Concerned at his illness. Wishes that he had died before last April. The lady, he tells him, generously pities him; and prays that he may meet with the mercy he has not shown.
LETTER IX. Lovelace to Belford.-- In raptures on her goodness to him. His deep regrets for his treatment of her. Blesses her.
LETTER X. Belford to Lovelace.-- Congratulates him on his amendment. The lady's exalted charity to him. Her story a fine subject for tragedy. Compares with it, and censures, the play of the Fair Penitent. She is very ill; the worse for some new instances of the implacableness of her relations. A meditation on the subject. Poor Belton, he tells him, is at death's door; and desirous to see him.
LETTER XI. Belford to Clarissa.-- Acquaints her with the obligation he is under to go to Belton, and (lest she should be surprised) with Lovelace's resolution (as signified in the next letter) to visit her.
LETTER XII. Lovelace to Belford.-- Resolves to throw himself at the lady's feet. Lord M. of opinion that she ought to admit of one interview.
LETTER XIII. From the same.-- Arrived in London, he finds the lady gone abroad. Suspects Belford. His unaccountable freaks at Smith's. His motives for behaving so ludicrously there. The vile Sally Martin entertains him with her mimicry of the divine lady.
LETTER XIV. From the same.-- His frightful dream. How affected by it. Sleeping or waking, his Clarissa always present with him. Hears she is returned to her lodgings. Is hastening to her.
LETTER XV. From the same.-- Disappointed again. Is affected by Mrs. Lovick's expostulations. Is shown a meditation on being hunted after by the enemy of her soul, as it is entitled. His light comments upon it. Leaves word that he resolves to see her. Makes several other efforts for that purpose.
LETTER XVI. Belford to Lovelace.-- Reproaches him that he has not kept his honour with him. Inveighs against, and severely censures him for his light behaviour at Smith's. Belton's terrors and despondency. Mowbray's impenetrable behaviour.
LETTER XVII. From the same.-- Mowbray's impatience to run from a dying Belton to a too-lively Lovelace. Mowbray abuses Mr. Belton's servant in the language of a rake of the common class. Reflection on the brevity of life.
LETTER XVIII. Lovelace to