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Mr Meadowshi: Mr Gosport, therefore, seizing the e report about you"

"Do you?" returned she, with quickness, "pray what is it? so monstrous impertinent, I dare say,---however, I assure you it i'n't true"

"Your assurance," cried he, "carries conviction indisputable, for the report was that you had left off talking"

"O, was that all?" cried she, disappointed, "I thought it had been soued so about him, I am quite sick of his na from me upon his account"

"Lord, Mr Gosport, how can you say so? I aht, for it was all over the town in a mo!--why, I know nothing else was talked of for a ! it is not two auntlet at Miss Beverley, and yet you are already prepared for another antagonist"

"O as to Miss Beverley, Iyou not to mention her; she has behaved so iain"

"Why, what has she done?"

"O she's been so rude you've no notion I'll tell you hoas You must know I met her at Mrs Barrel's the day she ca I waited on her myself, for I would not send a ticket, because I really wished to be civil to her; well, the day after, she never caain; however, I did not take any notice of that; but when the third day caht it monstrous ill bred indeed; and now there has passed more than a week, and yet she has never called: so I suppose she don't like me; so I shall drop her acquaintance"

Mr Gosport, satisfied noith the subject of her complaint, returned to Cecilia, and inforainst her

"I alad, at least, to know my crime," said she, "for otherwise I should certainly have sinned on in ignorance, as Iher visits: but even if I had, I should not have supposed I had yet lost much time"