Tobin Moffatt’s Reviews > Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady > Status Update

‘Hickman, a great over-grown, lank-haired chubby boy, who would be hunched and punched by everybody; and go home with his finger in his eye, and tell his mother.’

This is so disturbing.

'But remember that there would not be any merit in your compliance, if it were *not* to be against your own will.'

‘ . . . but made a virtue of necessity . . .’