Your unhappy sister,
CL. HARLOWE.


Betty tells me, my brother has taken my letter all in pieces; and has
undertaken to write such an answer to it, as shall confirm the wavering.
So, it is plain, that I should have moved somebody by it, but for this
hard-hearted brother--God forgive him!



LETTER VIII

MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE, TO MISS HOWE
THURSDAY NIGHT, MARCH 23.


I send you the boasted confutation-letter, just now put into my hands.
My brother and sister, my uncle Antony and Mr. Solmes, are, I
understand, exulting over the copy of it below, as an unanswerable
performance.


TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE

Once again, my inflexible Sister, I write to you. It is to let you know,
that the pretty piece of art you found out to make me the vehicle of your
whining pathetics to your father and mother, has not had the expected
effect.