that you will avoid reading to or transcribing for others such
passages as may have the appearance of treating too freely the
parental, or even the fraternal character, or induce others to censure
for a supposed failure in duty to the one, or decency to the other,

Your truly affectionate,
CL. HARLOWE.



LETTER XIV

MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE, TO MISS HOWE
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2.


On Hannah's depositing my long letter, (begun yesterday, but by reason
of several interruptions not finished till within this hour,) she
found and brought me yours of this day. I thank you, my dear, for
this kind expedition. These few lines will perhaps be time enough
deposited, to be taken away by your servant with the other letter: yet
they are only to thank you, and to tell you my increasing
apprehensions.

I must take or seek the occasion to apply to my mother for her
mediation; for I am in danger of having a day fixed, and antipathy
taken for bashfulness.--Should not sisters be sisters to each other?
Should not they make a common cause of it, as I may say, a cause of
sex, on such occasions as the present? Yet mine, in support of my
brother's selfishness, and, no doubt, in concert with him, has been