villain-purposes

Updated: May 21, 2025

Can violence enter into the heart of a wretch, who might entitle himself to all her willing yet virtuous love, and make the blessings he aspireth after, her duty to confer? Begone, villain-purposes! Sink ye all to the hell that could only inspire ye!

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