Your
CLARISSA HARLOWE.


* See Letter XL, ibid.



LETTER II

MISS HOWE, TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MARCH 22.


ANGRY!--What should I be angry for? I am mightily pleased with your
freedom, as you call it. I only wonder at your patience with me;
that's all. I am sorry I gave you the trouble of so long a letter
upon the occasion,* notwithstanding the pleasure I received in reading
it.


* See Vol. I, Letter XXXVII, for the occasion; and Letters XXXVIII.
and XL. of the same volume, for the freedom Clarissa apologizes for.


I believe you did not intend reserves to me: for two reasons I believe
you did not: First, because you say you did not: Next, because you
have not as yet been able to convince yourself how it is to be with
you; and persecuted as you are, how so to separate the effects that
spring from the two causes [persecution and love] as to give to each