Clarissa, Volume 2

By: Richardson, Samuel

Book Excerpt: ...than to perform --Say then, my dear, that you will consider of it. Say you will but reason with yourself. Give us but hopes. Don't let me entreat, and thus entreat, in vain-- for still she kneeled, and I by her].What a hard case is mine --Could I but doubt, I know I could conquer. --That which is an inducement to my friends, is none at all to me--How often, my dearest Aunt, must I repeat the same thing?--Let me but be single--Cannot I live single? Let me be sent, as I have proposed, to Scotland, to Florence, any where: let me be sent a slave to the Indies, any where--any of these I will consent to. But I cannot, cannot think of giving my vows to man I cannot endure Well then, rising, (Bella silently, with uplifted hands, reproaching my supposed perverseness, ) I see nothing can prevail with you to oblige us.What can I do, my dearest Aunt Hervey? What can I do? Were I capable of giving a hope I meant not to enlarge, then could I say, I would consider of your kind advice. But I would rathClose..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J5CQ49R
• ISBN13: 9798677224287
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"