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<h2> LETTER XXXVIII </h2>
<p>MRS. HARLOWE, TO MRS. HOWE SAT. JULY 22.</p>
<p>DEAR MADAM,</p>
<p>I send you, enclosed, copies of five letters that have passed between Miss
Howe and my Arabella. You are a person of so much prudence and good sense,
and (being a mother yourself) can so well enter into the distresses of all
our family, upon the rashness and ingratitude of a child we once doated
upon, that, I dare say, you will not countenance the strange freedoms your
daughter has taken with us all. These are not the only ones we have to
complain of; but we were silent on the others, as they did not, as these
have done, spread themselves out upon paper. We only beg, that we may not
be reflected upon by a young lady who knows not what we have suffered, and
do suffer by the rashness of a naughty creature who has brought ruin upon
herself, and disgrace upon a family which she had robbed of all comfort. I
offer not to prescribe to your known wisdom in this case; but leave it to
you to do as you think most proper. I am, Madam,</p>
<p>Your most humble servant, CHARL. HARLOWE.</p>
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