Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9

part in the more active and lively amusements and kill-times, as some

call them, used to employ Miss to read to her, happy enough, in her own imagination, that while she was diverting her own ears, and sometimes, as the piece was, corrupting her own heart, and her child's too, she was teaching Miss to read, and improve her mind; for it was the boast of every tea-table half-hour...