. Before they are gone, I'll take
care you shall be further supplied. I don't think you'll have a shilling
or a shilling's worth of your own from your relations, unless you extort
it from them.

As they believe you went away by your own consent, they are, it seems,
equally surprised and glad that you have left your jewels and money
behind you, and have contrived for clothes so ill. Very little
likelihood this shews of their answering your requests.

Indeed every one who knows not what I now know, must be at a loss to
account for your flight, as they will call it. And how, my dear, can
one report it with any tolerable advantage to you?--To say, you did not
intend it when you met him, who will believe it?--To say, that a person
of your known steadiness and punctilio was over-persuaded when you gave
him the meeting, how will that sound?--To say, you were tricked out of
yourself, and people were given credit to it, how disreputable!--And
while unmarried, and yet with him, the man a man of such a character,
what would it not lead a censuring world to think?

I want to see how you put it in your letter for your clothes.

As you may depend upon all the little spiteful things they can offer,
instead of sending what you write for, pray accept the sum that I
tender. What will seen guineas do?--And I will find a way to send you
also any of my clothes and linen for present supply. I beg, my dear
Clarissa, that you will not put your Anna Howe upon a footing with
Lovelace, in refusing to accept of my offer. If you do not oblige me, I
shall be apt to think you rather incline to be obliged to him, than to
favour me. And if I find this, I shall not know how to reconcile it with
your delicacy in other respects.

Pray inform me of every thing that passes between you and him. My cares
for you (however needless, from your own prudence) make me wish you to
continue to be every minute. If any thing occur that you would tell me
of if I were present, fail not to put it down in writing, although
from your natural diffidence, it should not appear to you altogether so
worthy of your pen, or my knowing. A stander-by may see more of the game
than one that plays. Great consequences, like great folks, generally owe
their greatness to small causes, and little incidents.

Upon the whole, I do not now think it is in your power to dismiss him
when you please. I apprized you beforehand, that it would not. I
repeat, therefore, that were I you, I would