LETTER LXXXV.
Miss Howe. In Reply.
Friday, July 21.
Miss Arabella Harlowe,
If you had half as much sense as you have ill-nature, you would (notwithstanding the exuberance of the latter) have been able to distinguish between a kind intention to you all (that you might
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have the less to reproach yourselves with, if a deplorable case should happen) and an officiousness I owed you not, by reason of freedoms at least reciprocal. I will not, for the unhappybody's sake, as you call a Sister you have helped to make so, say all that I could say. If what I fear happen, you shall hear (whether desired or not) all the mind of
Anna Howe.