THE

HISTORY

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Sir CHARLES GRANDISON,

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SERIES OF LETTER S.

BY MR. SAMUEL RICHARDSON,

AUTHOR OF PAMELA AND CLARISSA:

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

THE SIXTH EDITION,

LONDON:

Printed for J. and F. RIVINGTON, R. BALDWIN, S. CROWDER,
W. and J. RICHARDSON, W. GRIFFIN, JOHNSON
and PAYNE, W. DAVENHILL, T. CADELL,

and G. PEARCH.

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THE

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Sir Charles Grandison, Bart.

LETTER I

Mifs HARRIET BYRON, To Mifs LUCY SELBY.

Saturday, March 18.

ELF, my dear Lucy, is a very wicked thing; a fanctifier, if one would give way to its partialities, of actions, which in others we should have no doubt to condemn. DELICACY, too, is often a misleader; an idol, at whose shrine we fometimes offer up our fincerity; but, in that case, it fhould be called Indelicacy.

Nothing, furely, can be delicate, that is not true, or that gives birth to equivocation Yet how was ĺ pleased with Lord and Lady L. and Mifs Grandifon, for endeavouring to pass me off to good Dr. Bartlett in the light I had no title to appear in !-As if my mind, in a certain point, remained to be known;

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