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 CLARISSA.

Part F ﬁst—Her Home.

MISS ANNA HOWE T0 MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE. January 10. 1 AM extremely concerned, my dearth friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family. I long to have the particulars from yourself.

Mr. Diggs the Surgeon, whom I sent for at the ﬁrst hearing of the rencounter, to inquire, for your sake, how your brother was, told me, that there was no danger from the wound, if there were none from the fever.

They say, that Mr. Lovelace could not avoid drawing his sword, and that either your brother’s unskilfulness or passion left him from the very ﬁrst pass entirely in his power.

Write to me, therefore, my dear, the whole of your story from the time that Mr. Lovelace was ﬁrst introduced into your family ; and particularly an account of all that passed between him and your sister, about which there are different reports; some people scrupling not to insinuate that the younger sister has stolen a lover from the elder.

Your ever grateful and affectionate ANNA HOWE.