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"Good heaven!" cried Cecilia, extremely moved, "is it then your own money for which you sue thus humbly?"

"Yes, madam, for my own just and honest money, as his honour knows, and will tell you himself"

"Impossible!" cried Cecilia, "he cannot know it; but I will take care he shall soon be informed of it How much is the bill?"

"Two-and-twenty pounds, entlefolks little think howfao on for a long while quite in paradise"

"Poor worthy woman!" cried Cecilia, whose eyes were filled with tears of compassion, "if 20 pounds will place you in paradise, and that 20 pounds only your just right, it is hard, indeed, that you should be kept without it; especially when your debtors are too affluent toyou the money immediately"

Away she flew, and returned to the breakfast room, but found there only Mr Arnott, who told her that Mr Harrel was in the library, with his sister and soed he would inform Mr Harrel she wished to speak to him directly Mr Arnott shook his head, but obeyed

They returned together, and ilad you are not gone, for ant much to consult with you Will you come up stairs?"

"Presently," answered she; "but first I must speak to you about a poor woed me to intercede with you to pay a little debt that she thinks you have forgotten, but that probably you have never heard e of countenance, "to whom?"

"Her name, I think, is Hill; she is wife to the carpenter you employed about a new temple at Violet-Bank"

"O, what--what, that woo to the library"

"What, with my commission so ill executed? I promised to petition for her to have the money directly"

"Pho, pho, there's no such hurry; I don't knohat I have done with her bill"

"I'll run and get another"

"O upon no account! She may send another in two or three days She deserves to wait a twelve you at all about it"

"That was entirely accidental: but indeed you ive me leave to perform my promise and plead for her It must be almost the same to you whether you pay such a trifle as 20 pounds now or a month hence, and to this poor woman the difference seems little short of life or death, for she tells , and her children are half-fah she looks an object of the cruellest want and distress herself, she appears to be their only support"