Clarissa

Samuel Richardson

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1. Yet do I find that one may be driven by violent measures step by step, as it were, into something that may be called—I don’t know what to call it—a conditional kind of liking, or so.


2. Oh my dear, what a poor, passive machine is the body when the mind is disordered!”


3. Adversity is your shining-time: I see evidently that it must call forth graces and beauties that could not have been seen in a run of that prosperous fortune which attended you from your cradle till now.”


4. I have time for a few lines preparative to what is to happen in an hour or two; and I love to write to the moment—


5. Let me go, said she: I am but a woman—but a weak woman—but my life is in my own power, though my own person is not—I will not be thus constrained.


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