Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1

by Samuel Richardson

  TO JAMES HARLOWE, JUNIOR, ESQ.

  SIR,

  I will only say, That you may congratulate yourself on having so farsucceeded in all your views, that you may report what you please of me,and I can no more defend myself, than if I were dead. Yet one favour,nevertheless, I will beg of you. It is this--That you will not occasionmore severities, more disgraces, that are necessary for carrying intoexecution your further designs, whatever they be, against

  Your unhappy sister, CLARISSA HARLOWE.