The Complete Novels
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217756860
Paperback|9780217756860
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: possession of your own estate. The knot once tied, and with so resolute a man, it is my opinion your relations will soon resign what they cannot legally hold: and, were even a litigation to follow, you will not be able, nor ought you to be willing, to help it: for your estate will then be his right; and it will be unjust to wish it to be withheld from him. One thing I would advise you to think of; and that is, of proper settlements: it will be to the credit of your prudence and of his justice (and the more as matters stand) that something of this should be done before you marry. Bad as he is, nobody accounts him a sordid man. And I wonder he has been hitherto silent on that subject. I am not displeased with his proposal about the widow lady's house. I think it will do very well. But if it must be three weeks before you can be certain about it, surely you need not put off his day for that space: and he may bespeak his equipages. Surprising to me, as well as to you, that he could be so acquiescent I repeat?continue to write to me. I insist upon it; and that as minutely as possible: or, take the consequence. I send this by a particular hand. I am, and ever will be, Your affectionate, Anna Howe. LETTER IV. Miss Clarissa Harlowe to Miss Howe. Thursday, Ma; 4. I Forego every other engagement, I suspend every wish, I banish every other fear, to take up my pen, to beg of you that you will not think of being guilty of such an act of love as I can never thank you for; but must for ever regret. If I must continue to write to you, I must. I know full well your impatience of control, when you havethe least imagination that your generosity or friendship is likely to be wounded by it. My dearest, dearest creature, would you incur a maternal, as I have a paternal, m...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217756860 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217756867 |
| Weight | 0.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 In |
| List Price | $19.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 266 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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