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The whole world, he says, is but one great Bedlam. Every one in it mad but himself. LETTER XXIV. Belford to Mowbray.-- Desires that Lovelace, on his recovery, may be prevailed upon to go abroad; and why. Exhorts him and Tourville to reform, as he is resolved to do. LETTER XXV. Belford to Lovelace.-- Describing the terrible impatience, despondency, and death of the wretched Sinclair. [As the bad house is often mentioned in this work, without any other stigma than what arises from the wicked principles and actions occasionally given of the wretches who inhabit it; Mr. Belford here enters into the secret retirements of those creatures, and exposes them in the appearances they are supposed to make, before they are tricked out to ensnare weak and inconsiderate minds.] LETTER XXVI. Colonel Morden to Mr. Belford.-- With an account of his arrival at Harlowe-place before the body. The dreadful distress of the whole family in expectation of its coming. The deep remorse of James and Arabella Harlowe. Mutual recriminations on recollecting the numerous instances of their inexorable cruelty. Mrs. Norton so ill he was forced to leave her at St. Alban's. He dates again to give a farther account of their distress on the arrival of the hearse. Solemn respect paid to her memory by crowds of people. LETTER XXVII. From the same.-- Farther interesting accounts of what passed among the Harlowes. Miss Howe expected to see, for the last time, her beloved friend. LETTER XXVIII. From the same.-- Miss Howe arrives. The Colonel receives her. Her tender woe; and characteristic behaviour. LETTER XXIX. Colonel Morden to Mr. Belford.-- Mrs. Norton arrives. Amended in spirits. To what owing. Farther recriminations of the unhappy parents. They attempt to see the corpse; but cannot. Could ever wilful hard-heartedness, the Colonel asks, be more severely punished? Substance of the lady's posthumous letter to Mrs. Norton. LETTER XXX. From the same.-- Account of the funeral solemnity. Heads of the eulogium. The universal justice done to the lady's great and good qualities. Other affecting particulars. LETTER XXXI. Belford to Colonel Morden.-- Compliments him on his pathetic narratives. Farther account of his executorial proceedings. LETTER XXXII. James Harlowe to Belford. LETTER XXXIII. Mr. Belford. In answer. The lady's LAST WILL. In the preamble to which, as well as in the body of it, she gives
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