London. Lovelace has offered marriage to her in so unreserved a manner,
that she wishes she had never written with diffidence of him. Is sorry
it was not in her power to comply with his earnest solicitations.
Returns her Norris: and why.

LETTER LVIII. LIX. Miss Howe to Clarissa.--
Sorry she has returned her Norris. Wishes she had accepted of Lovelace's
unreserved offer of marriage. Believes herself to have a sneaking
kindness for Hickman: and why. She blames Mrs. Harlowe: and why.

In answer to Letter VIII.
Clarissa states the difference in the characters of Mr. Lovelace and Mr.
Hickman; and tells her, that her motives for suspending marriage were not
merely ceremonious ones. Regrets Mrs. Howe's forbidding the
correspondence between them. Her dutiful apology for her own mother.
Lesson to children.

LETTER LX. Lovelace to Belford.--
Thinks he shall be inevitably manacled at last. The lady's extreme
illness. Her filial piety gives her dreadful faith in a father's curses.
She lets not Miss Howe know how very ill she was. His vows of marriage
bring her back to life. Absolutely in earnest in those vows. [The only
time he was so.] He can now talk of love and marriage without check.
Descants upon Belford's letter, No. LI.

LETTER LXI. From the same.--
Is setting out for London. A struggle with his heart. Owns it to be a
villain of a heart. A fit of strong, but transitory remorse. If he do
marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife. Thinks it would be
better for both not to marry. His libertine reasons. Lessons to the