you answerable to her for your conduct in points so very delicate and
concerning.

Every eye, in short, is upon you with the expectation of an example.
I wish to heaven you were at liberty to pursue your own methods: all
would then, I dare say, be easy, and honourably ended. But I dread
your directors and directresses; for your mother, admirably well
qualified as she is to lead, must submit to be led. Your sister and
brother will certainly put you out of your course.

But this is a point you will not permit me to expatiate upon: pardon
me therefore, and I have done.--Yet, why should I say, pardon me? when
your concerns are my concerns? when your honour is my honour? when I
love you, as never woman loved another? and when you have allowed of
that concern and of that love; and have for years, which in persons so
young may be called many, ranked in the first class of your friends,

Your ever grateful and affectionate,
ANNA HOWE?


Will you oblige me with a copy of the preamble to the clauses in your
grandfather's will in your favour; and allow me to send it to my aunt
Harman?--She is very desirous to see it. Yet your character has so
charmed her, that, though a stranger to you personally, she assents to
the preference given you in that will, before she knows the testator's
reasons for giving you that preference.