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There were also soentle to notice any of the coure in the circle was Mr Belfield, a tall, thin young man, whose face was all anience He had been intended by his father for trade, but his spirit, soaring above the occupation for which he was designed, fro, to rebel He eloped from his friends, and contrived to enter the arer for the acquiree, he found not this way of life much better adapted to his inclination than that froreeary of it, was reconciled to his father, and entered at the Teay for laborious application, he our of iht have raised hi unhappily associated with fickleness and caprice, served only to impede his improvement, and obstruct his preferlected, a s less, the ad simply in civility, he lived an unsettled and unprofitable life, generally caressed, and universally sought, yet careless of his interest and thoughtless of the future; devoting his time to company, his inco you," said Mr Monckton, as he attended Cecilia into the rooave disturbance to her friends but in quitting the upon her his piercing eyes, "wears in your part of the world a fore it for a view of joy?"

"She's divinely handso an involuntary exclamation

Meantime, Cecilia, as placed next to the lady of the house, quietly began her breakfast; Mr Morrice, the young lawyer, with thehi the rest of his guests, in order to secure that place for hihbour; he talked of her journey, and the prospects of gaiety which it opened to her view; but by these finding her unhts of the spot she was quitting Studious to recommend himself to her notice, and indifferent by what means, one moment he flippantly extolled the entertainments of the town; and the next, rapturously described the charms of the country A word, a look sufficed to mark her approbation or dissent, which he no sooner discovered, than he slided into her opinion, with as inally been his own