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"Why so?" said Cecilia "If her tri is dirty, yours will look theit see like it And I quite ruinedwas ever half soIt distressed me so, I could hardly speak to her If she had stayed a er, I should not havein the world to come over just noish the Custom-house officers had kept all her cloaths till summer"

"The wish is tender, indeed," said Cecilia, "for a particular friend"

Mrs Mears now rising from the card-table, Miss Larolles tript away to pay her compliments to her

"Here, at least," cried Cecilia, "no receipt seems requisite for the cure of silence! I would have Miss Larolles be the constant coree ad lady seems determined never to speak, and the VOLUBLE Miss Larolles never to be silent Were each to borrow soreatly would both be the better!"

"The composition would still be a sorry one," answered Mr Gosport, "for I believe they are equally weak, and equally ignorant; the only difference is, that one, though silly, is quick, the other, though deliberate, is stupid Upon a short acquaintance, that heaviness which leaves to others the whole weight of discourse, and whole search of entertainer intimacy, even that is less irkso but itself"

Mrs Harrel arose now to depart, and Cecilia, notthan entertained with its conclusion, was handed to the carriage by Mr Arnott