[776]Ibid. III. Letter XVIII. 89.
[777]Ibid. VII. Letter XXXVIII. 122.
[778]See the Mémoirs of the Marshal de Richelieu.
[779]"Clarissa Harlowe," II. Letter XXXIX. 294.
[780]Ibid, IV, XXXIII. 232.
[781]See ("Clarissa Harlowe," vol. VII. Letter XLIX.) among other things her last will.
[782]She makes out statistics and a classification of Lovelace's merits and faults, with subdivisions and numbers. Take an example of this positive and practical English logic: "That such a husband might unsettle me in all my own principles, and hazard my future hopes. That he has a very immoral character to women. That knowing this, it is a high degree of impurity to think of joining in wedlock with such a man." She keeps all her writings, her memorandums, summaries or analyses of her own letters.
[783]"Swearing is a most unmanly vice, and cursing as poor and low a one, since it proclaims the profligate's want of power and his wickedness at the same time; for could such a one punish as he speaks, he would be a fiend."—Vol. II. Letter XXXVIII. 282.
[784]The contrary is the case with the heroines of George Sand's novels.
[785]See "Sir Charles Grandison," 7 vols. 1811, III. Letter XVI. 142: "He received the letters, standing up, bowing; and kissed the papers with an air of gallantry, that I thought greatly became him."