Clarissa (1748) [ Practices / Concepts ]
… could find. All my comfort is, that your advice repeatedly given me to the same purpose, in your kind letter before 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 a preparation for it. I hope no mischief will happen on the road.—I hope these violent spirits will not meet. Every …
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