Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe Samuel Richardson

No rest, says a text that I once heard preached upon, to the wicked-and I cannot close my eyes (yet only wanted to compound for half an hour in an elbow-chair)-so must scribble on. I parted with the Captain after another strong debate with him in relation to what is to be the fate of this lady. As the fellow has an excellent head, and would have made an eminent figure in any station of life, had not his early days been tainted with a deep crime, and he detected in it; and as he had the right side of the argument; I had a good deal of difficulty with him; and at last brought myself to promise...