sister-beauties

Updated: May 28, 2025

This letter, when I have it, must be my compass to steer by. The fire of friendship then blazes and crackles. I never before imagined that so fervent a friendship could subsist between two sister-beauties, both toasts. But even here it may be inflamed by opposition, and by that contradiction which gives vigour to female spirits of a warm and romantic turn.

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