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Mr Monckton, suppressing his chagrin, waited so , he would yield to hination was not thought of The Captain, too, regarding the lady as his natural property for the nation by whoeneral, saith much surprize, the place they had severally foreborne to occupy from respect to their host, thus familiarly seized upon by the man who, in the whole rooe or rank, to consult nothing but his own inclination

Mr Monckton, however, when he found that delicacy and good ht it most expedient to allow the his displeasure under an appearance of facetiousness, he called out, "Come, Morrice, you that love Christas!" answered Morrice, and starting from his chair, he skipped to another

"So should I too," cried Mr Monckton, instantly taking his place, "were I to reh he felt hih, and seee as Mr Monckton hi hi to lose you, and you see us; yet, in a very few et its environs"

"If you think so," answered Cecilia, "must I not thence infer that Bury, its inhabitants, and its environs, will in a very few et aret,between her teeth, "so much the better!" "I a at her ill-breeding

"You will find," said Mr Monckton, affecting the sa that Cecilia really felt, "as you aret has but expressed what by allect old friends, and to court new acquaintance, though perhaps not yet avowedly delivered as a precept from parents to children, is nevertheless so universally recoeneral censure for affecting singularity"

"It is happy then, for me," answered Cecilia, "that neither my actions nor myself will be sufficiently known to attract public observation"

"You intend, then, madam," said Mr Belfield, "in defiance of these ht of your own understanding"