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"That you have done so well," cried Mr Gosport, "that if you had known it the whole time, you could have done it no better"

The Captain, who had not heard this speech, which was rather made at him than to him, continued his address to Cecilia; "Giveyou intend to honour our select masquerade at the Pantheon with your presence We shall have but five hundred tickets, and the subscription will only be three guineas and a half"

"Oh objects of penury and want!" again exclainito; "Oh vassals of famine and distress! Come and listen to this wantonness of wealth! Come, naked and breadless as ye are, and learn how thatraie wretch," said the Captain, "ought really to be confined; I have had the honour to be degoute by him so often, that I think him quite obnoxious I make it quite a principle to seal up my lips the moment I perceive him"

"Where is it, then," said Cecilia, "that you have so often reater bore about town But the ti was once when I happened to have the honour of dancing with a very young lady, as but just co-school, and whose friends had done ing her out: and while I was doingthe time, he ca in any thing I said! I e with a person in years, in ht the ladies word that their carriage was ready, and they quitted their box: but as Cecilia had never before seen the interior parts of a theatre, Mr Monckton, hoping while they loitered to have an opportunity of talking with her, asked Morrice why he did not shew the lions? Morrice, always happy in being eged perer in the search of aly accepted his offer

They all, therefore,the only one that remained

"We shall make a triumphal entry here," cried Sir Robert Floyer; "the very tread of the stage half tempts me to turn actor"

"You are a rare man," said Mr Gosport, "if, at your time of life, that is a turn not already taken"