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"O!" cried his lady, "don't think of wondering at that, for it happens continually He dines at ho of him at all"

"Indeed? why, how does he fill up his time?"

"That I am sure I cannot tell, for he never consults me about it; but I suppose much in the same way that other people do"

"Ah, Priscilla!" cried Cecilia, with some earnestness, "how little did I ever expect to see you so much a fine lady!"

"A fine lady?" repeated Mrs Harrel; "hat is it I do? Don't I live exactly like every body else that mixes at all with the world?"

"You, Miss Beverley," said Mr Arnott in a low voice, "will I hope give to the world an example, not take one froht

The next eously, than in wandering about the house in search of a coether her books, arranged them to her fancy, and secured to herself for the future occupation of her leisure hours, the exhaustless fund of entertainhest, and noblest source of intellectual enjoyment, perpetually affords

While they were yet at breakfast, they were again visited by Miss Larolles "I aerly, "to run aith you both to rade's sale All the world will be there; and we shall go in with tickets, and you have no notion hoill be crowded"

"What is to be sold there?" said Cecilia

"Oh, every thing you can conceive; house, stables, china, laces, horses, caps, everything in the world"

"And do you intend to buy any thing?"

"Lord, no; but one likes to see the people's things"

Cecilia then begged they would excuse her attendance

"O, by no o, I assure you; there'll be such a monstrous crowd as you never saw in your life I dare say we shall be half squeezed to death"

"That," said Cecilia, "is an induceht with a poor rustic just out of the country: itresidence in the o, for I assure you it will be the best sale we shall have this season I can't irade will do with herself; I hear the creditors have seized every thing; I really believe creditors are the cruelest set of people in the world! they have taken those beautiful buckles out of her shoes! Poor soul! I declare it will , upon my word I wonder who'll buy them I assure you they were the prettiest fancied I ever saw But co in"