Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
Chapter 11
A letter from Captain Tomlinson makes all up. Her uncle Harlowe's pretended proposal big with art and plausible delusion. She acquiesces in it. He writes to the pretended Tomlinson, on an affecting hint of her's, requesting that her uncle Harlowe would, in person, give his niece to him; or permit Tomlinson to be his proxy on the occasion.--And now for a little of mine, he says, which he has ready to spring.