#a cruel angels thesis
But I should own that in the letters [Lovelace] sent me upon the general subject, he more than once enclosed a particular one declaring his passionate regards for me, and complaining with fervour enough of my reserves: but of these I took not the least notice; for as I had not written to him at all, but upon a subject so general, I thought it was but right to let what he wrote upon one so particular pass off as if I never had seen it; and the rather as I was not then at liberty, from the approbation his letters met with, to break off the correspondence without assigning the true reason for doing so. (L3, clarissa to anna)
i’m noticing parallels ngl…
you’re so weird and creepy *kicking my legs*
