london-streets

Updated: September 28, 2025

For it is wished you may be seen a beggar along London-streets. If all this is heavy, lay your hand to your heart, and ask yourself, why you have deserved it? Your worthy Norton is ashamed of you, and mingles her tears with your mother's; both reproaching themselves for their shares in you, and in so fruitless an education. Every body, in short, is ashamed of you: but none more than

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3