Clarissa Harlowe; Or the History of a Young Lady — volume 4
Clarissa Harlowe; Or the History of a Young Lady — volume 4
Richardson Samuel
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Must I not with such a man, says she, be wanting to myself, were I notjealous and vigilant? By this time the reader will see, that she had still greater reason forher jealousy and vigilance. And Lovelace will tell the sex, as he doesin Letter XI. Of Vol. V. , that the woman who resents not initiatoryfreedoms, must be lost. Love is an encroacher, says he: loves never goesbackward. Nothing but the highest act of love can satisfy an indulgedlove. But the reader perhaps is too apt to form a judgmen...t of Clarissa'sconduct in critical cases by Lovelace's complaints of her coldness; notconsidering his views upon her; and that she is proposed as an example;and therefore in her trials and distresses must not be allowed todispense with those rules which perhaps some others of the sex, in herdelicate situation, would not have thought themselves so strictly boundto observe; although, if she had not observed them, a Lovelace would havecarried all his points. [Four letters are written by Mr. Lovelace from the date of his last, giving the state of affairs between him and the Lady, pretty much the same as in hers in the same period, allowing for the humour in his, and for his resentments expressed with vehemence on her resolution to leave him, if her friends could be brought to be reconciled to her.
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