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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