Nevertheless, I will dare to hope for a continued interest in your
affections [I shall be miserable indeed if I may not!] and to be
remembered in your daily prayers. For neither time nor accident shall
ever make me cease to be

Your faithful and affectionate
CLARISSA HARLOWE.



LETTER III

MR. LOVELACE, TO JOSEPH LEMAN
SAT. APRIL 8.


HONEST JOSEPH,

At length your beloved young lady has consented to free herself from the
cruel treatment she has so long borne. She is to meet me without the
garden-door at about four o'clock on Monday afternoon. I told you she
had promised to do so. She has confirmed her promise. Thank Heaven she
has confirmed her promise!

I shall have a chariot-and-six ready in the by-road fronting the private
path to Harlowe-paddock; and several of my friends and servants not far
off, armed to protect her, if there be occasion: but every one charged to
avoid mischief. That, you know, has always been my principal care.