Samuel Richardson

I am sure it is my duty, and it shall be my care, to love and cherish you both; for you have loved and cherished me, when I could do nothing for myself

But we would sooner live upon the water, and, if possible, the clay of the ditches I

But we would sooner live upon the water, and, if possible, the clay of the ditches I contentedly dig, than live better at the price of our child's ruin

thousand deaths, rather than be

dishonest any way.

But this is more pride to me, that I am come of such honest parents, than if I had

But this is more pride to me, that I am come of such honest parents, than if I had been born a lady.

that I had never left my little bed in the loft, to be thus exposed to temptations on one hand, or disgusts on the other! How happy was I awhile ago!

this frightful to-morrow; how I dread it!

great courage, and sometimes