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  • But his disavowing of harm, was a demonstration with my apprehensive fair-one, that harm was intended.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But to the particulars of the conference between my fair-one and me, on her hasty messages; which I was loth to come to, because she has had an half triumph over me in it.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • By my troth, Jack, I am half as much ashamed to see the women below, as my fair-one can be to see me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Whatever be my luck, thought I, with this all-eyed fair-one, any other woman in the world, from fifteen to five-and-twenty, would be mine upon my own terms before the morning.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But here comes the widow with Dorcas Wykes in her hand, and I am to introduce them both to my fair-one?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Harlowe-spirited fair-one will not deserve my mercy! —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But you see, for all that, your game is as much owing to the knave as the king; and you, my fair-one, lost no advantage, when it was put into your power.

    Pamela 2006

  • You would grace a prince, my fair-one, said the good, kind, kind gentleman! in that dress, or any you shall choose: And you look so pretty, that, if you shall not catch cold in that round-eared cap, you shall go just as you are.

    Pamela 2006

  • O that the sagacious fair-one (with so much innocent charity in her own heart) had not so resolutely held those women at distance! — that as she boarded there, she had oftener tabled with them!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I suppose Mrs. Moore, (whom I left with my fair-one,) had apprized her of this before Miss Rawlins went in; for I heard her say, while I withheld Miss Rawlins, — ‘No, indeed: he is much mistaken — surely he does not think I will.’

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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