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His ardour, however, to attain the blessed period of returning liberty, deprived him neither of spirit nor inclination for intermediate enjoyment; he knew the world too well to incur its censure by ill-treating the woman to whom he was indebted for the rank he held in it; he saw her, indeed, but seldo her, to shew no abate thus sacrificed to ambition all possibility of happiness in dohts to those otherit, which he had so dearly purchased the power of essaying
The resources of pleasure to the possessors of wealth are only to be cut off by the satiety of which they are productive: a satiety which the vigorous mind of Mr Monckton had not yet suffered him to experience; his time, therefore, was either devoted to the expensive a the gayest of its diversions
The little knowledge of fashionable manners and of the characters of the tiathered at the house of this gentleman, hom the Dean her uncle had been intimately connected: for as he preserved to the world the same appearance of decency he supported to his wife, he was everywhere well received, and being but partially knoas extre his circu the voice of censure, guarding his character from impeachment, and his name from reproach
Cecilia had been known to him half her life; she had been caressed in his house as a beautiful child, and her presence was now solicited there as an amiable acquaintance Her visits, indeed, had by no aret Monckton had rendered them painful to her; yet the opportunities they had afforded her ofwith people of fashion, had served to prepare her for the new scenes in which she was soon to be a perforuest at the Deanery; his conversation was to Cecilia a never-failing source of infore of life and manners enabled hinorant; and her ee, received all new ideas with avidity
Pleasure given in society, like money lent in usury, returns with interest to those who dispense it: and the discourse of Mr Monckton conferred not a greater favour upon Cecilia than her attention to it repaid And thus, the speaker and the hearer being ratified, they had always ret