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In a short time Cecilia, who every day had hoped that the next would afford her greater satisfaction, but who every day found the present no better than the for the same round, and to sicken at the irkso dissipation She saw nobody she wished to see, as she had h sometimes those hom she mixed appeared to be amiable, she knew that their manners, like their persons, were in their best array, and therefore she had too e decisively of their characters But what chiefly da a friendship with any of the new acquaintance to whom she was introduced, was the observation she herself made how ill the coldness of their hearts accorded with the war, the civilities which were shewn her, flattered her into believing she had excited a partiality that a very little ti commonly confirularly destroyed it She found that ti to their fondness, nor intimacy to their sincerity; that the interest in her welfare which appeared to be taken at first sight, seldom, hatever reason, increased, and often without any, abated; that the distinction she at first met with, was no effusion of kindness, but of curiosity, which is scarcely sooner gratified than satiated; and that those who lived always the life into which she had only lately been initiated, were as h less spirited to relinquish, andbut as new, because they had experienced the insufficiency of whatever was faret the loss she sustained in quitting the neighbourhood, and being deprived of the conversation of Mr Monckton, and yet h for the society of Mrs Charlton, the lady ho and happily resided at Bury; for she was very soon co the felicity of her earlier years, by being restored to the friendship of Mrs Harrel, in whom she had mistaken the kindness of childish intih she saw her credulous error with retted it with tenderness and sorrow "What, at last," cried she, "is human felicity, who has tasted, and where is it to be found? If I, who, to others, seeuished by fortune, caressed by the world, brought into the circle of high life, and surrounded with splendour, seek without finding it, yet losing, scarce kno I miss it!"