The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, consisting of Wieland;or, The transformation. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker. Jane Talbot. Ormond; or, The secret witness. Clara Howard; or, The enthusiasm of love. With a memoir of the author.

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CLARA HOWARD; OR,

whether she be vile as dirt or bright as heaven, is equally
her right.
Seek her out this moment; never rest till you have
found her; restore to her her own property; tender her
your counsel, your aid. Mention me to her as one extremely anxious to cultivate her good opinion and enjoy
her friendship. Do this, Philip, instantly, I exhort, I
entreat, I command you; and let me know the result.
CLARA HOWARD.
LETTER XVII.
To Clara Howard.
Philadelphia, May 4.
I HAVE just returned from Germantown, and find your
letter on my table. Thank Heaven, I have not merited
all your rebukes. That anxiety to ascertain the truth,
and that unwillingness to trust to such witnesses as gossips
and nurses, which you think I ought to feel, I really haye
felt. My last was written in the first tumult of my
thoughts. The moment I laid down the pen, and began
more deliberately to reflect upon the subject, doubts and
hopes thronged into my imagination; I resolved to bend
every nerve to discover the retreat of Mary and ascertain her true situation.
As Sedley was so well known to Mrs. Kalm, I resolved
to visit that lady. I had no acquaintance with her, but
I overlooked the impropriety of my application, and set
out immediately to Germantown.
Being admitted to an apartment in which I found that
lady alone, I introduced myself in some confused way, I
scarcely know how, and inquired whether she knew the
person whom Sedley was about to marry, and whether
she could afford me any information of the place where
Mary Wilmot was likely to be found.
She answered, with great civility, that Sedley's sister
was her dear friend; that Mrs.Valentine resided at this
time in New England; that her brother, passing lately
through this city, in order to join her, had spent part
of a day with Mr. Kalm; that Sedley had given his