… should I choose to be wedded to my shroud than to any man on earth! Indeed I have at present no pleasure but in your friendship. Continue that to me, I beseech you. If my heart rises hereafter to a capacity of more, it must be built on … may say, I have been forced to turn my desolate heart to such protection as I could find." … Fiction … Correspondence … Friendship … Samuel Richardson, Clarissa. Or, the history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of …