Clarissa (1748) [ Practices / Concepts ]
… worse I had been: for I had fainted away more than once. I think the contents of it have touched my head as well as my heart. He would fain have seen it. But I would not permit that, because of the threatenings he would have found in it … I have now no hopes, and only you to pity me, and you restrained, as I may say, I have been forced to turn my desolate heart to such protection as I could find. All my comfort is, that your advice repeatedly given me to the same purpose, in … me, warrants me. I now set out the more cheerfully to London on that account: for, before, a heavy weight hung upon my heart; and although I thought it best and safest to go, yet my spirits sunk, I know not why, at every motion I made towards …
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