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Updated: May 28, 2025

I will not recriminate upon thee, Belford, as I might, when thou flatterest thyself that thou never ruinedst the morals of any young creature, who otherwise would not have been corrupted the palliating consolation of an Hottentot heart, determined rather to gluttonize on the garbage of other foul feeders than to reform.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4