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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady Volume 1 Letter II
In which the correspondent relates with candid amusement and delicate observation the curious courtship of her sister by a gentleman named Mr. Lovelace, detailing the mixture of bashfulness and reserve that perplexes and yet charms her, while the family remains unsettled by these events. The letter conveys both the tension of familial expectations and the subtleties of young affection, all rendered with a considerate eye to character and circumstance.
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