Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
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and I, standing very high at present in their good graces, am to gallant
them to Oxford, to Blenheim, and to several other places. LETTER IX MISS HOWE, TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE THURSDAY NIGHT, JULY 13. Collins sets not out to-morrow. Some domestic occasion hinders him. Rogers is but now returned from you, and cannot be well spared. Mr. Hickman is gone upon an affair of my mother's, and has taken both his servants with him, to do credit to his employer: so I am forced to venture this by post, directed by your assumed name. I am to acquaint you, that I have been favoured with a visit from Miss Montague and her sister, in Lord M.'s chariot-and-six. My Lord's gentleman rode here yesterday, with a request that I would receive a visit from the two young ladies, on a very particular occasion; the greater favour if it might be the next day. As I had so little personal knowledge of either, I doubted not but it must be in relation to the interests of my dear friend; and so consulting with my mother, I sent them an invitation to favour me (because of the distance) with their company at dinner; which they kindly accepted. I hope, my dear, since things have been so very bad, that their errand to me will be as agreeable to you, as any thing that can now happen. They |
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