Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7

  LETTER XXXV

  MISS HOWE[IN REPLY.]FRIDAY, JULY 21.

  MISS ARABELLA HARLOWE,

  If you had half as much sense as you have ill-nature, you would(notwithstanding the exuberance of the latter) have been able todistinguish between a kind intention to you all (that you might have theless to reproach yourselves with, if a deplorable case should happen) andan officiousness I owed you not, by reason of freedoms at leastreciprocal. I will not, for the unhappy body's sake, as you call asister you have helped to make so, say all that I could say. If what Ifear happen, you shall hear (whether desired or not) all the mind of

  ANNA HOWE.