debasest

Updated: August 20, 2026

But take care, fair one; take care, O thou most exalted of female minds, and loveliest of persons, how thou debasest thyself by encouraging such a competition as thy sordid relations have set on foot in mere malice to me! Thou wilt say I rave. And so I do: Perdition catch my soul, but I do love her. Else, could I hear the perpetual revilings of her implacable family?

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1