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  • So young master sed, You may say any thing before Joseph; for, althoff he looks so seelie, he has as good a harte, and as good a hedd, as any sarvante in the world need to have.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But this, and the death of his dear young lady, is a grief, he declares, that he shall never claw off, were he to love to the age of Matthew Salem; althoff, and howsomever, he is sure, that he shall not live a month to an end: being strangely pined, and his stomach nothing like what it was; and Mrs. Betty being also (now she has got his love) very cross and slighting.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Natheless, if she was to angre me, althoff it is a shame to bete a woman, yet I colde make shift to throe my hat at her, or so, your Honner.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • For, althoff I think myself verry honnest, and all that, yet I am touched a littel, for fear I should not do the quite right thing: and too besides, your Honner has such a fesseshious way with you, as that I hardly know whether you are in jest or earnest, when your Honner calls me honnest so often.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • As I am sure I do myself; for I am, althoff a very plane man, and all that, a very honnest one, I thank my God.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Natheless, if she was to angre me, althoff it is a shame to bete a woman, yet I colde make shift to throe my hat at her, or so, your Honner.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • For, althoff I think myself verry honnest, and all that, yet I am touched a littel, for fear I should not do the quite right thing: and too besides, your Honner has such a fesseshious way with you, as that I hardly know whether you are in jest or earnest, when your

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • So young master sed, You may say any thing before Joseph; for, althoff he looks so seelie, he has as good a harte, and as good a hedd, as any sarvante in the world need to have.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

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