Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson
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mine?
I will free you from your executorship, and all your cares. Take notice, Belford, that I do hereby actually discharge you, and every body, from all cares and troubles relating to her. And as to her last testament, I will execute it myself. There were no articles between us, no settlements; and she is mine, as you see I have proved to a demonstration; nor could she dispose of herself but as I pleased.--D----n----n seize me then if I make not good my right against all opposers! Her bowels, if her friends are very solicitous about them, and very humble and sorrowful, (and none have they of their own,) shall be sent down to them--to be laid with her ancestors--unless she has ordered otherwise. For, except that, she shall not be committed to the unworthy earth so long as she can be kept out of it, her will shall be performed in every thing. I send in the mean time for a lock of her hair. I charge you stir not in any part of her will but by my express direction. I will order every thing myself. For am I not her husband? and, being forgiven by her, am I not the chosen of her heart? What else signifies her forgiveness? The two insufferable wretches you have sent me plague me to death, and would treat me like a babe in strings.--D--n the fellows, what end can they mean by it? Yet that crippled monkey Doleman joins with them. And, |
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