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Mean ti released, hurried into a corner, where she hoped to breathe and look on in quiet; and the white do exhorted Harlequin to torment the torratulations upon her recovered freedoht to thank for it, which indeed I do most heartily I was so tired of confinement, that my mind seemed almost as little at liberty as my person"

"Your persecutor, I presume," said the domino, "is known to you"

"I hope so," answered she, "because there is one man I suspect, and I should be sorry to find there was another equally disagreeable"

"O, depend upon it," cried he, "there are many ould be happy to confine you in the same manner; neither have you ressor, and played this game yourself without mercy, for I read in your face the captivity of thousands: have you, then, any right to be offended at the spirit of retaliation which one, out of such nue to exert in return?"

"I protest," cried Cecilia, "I took you for my defender! whence is it you are becoer to which in, indeed, to take you for a very mischievous sort of person, and I fear the poor devil frorace, by finding that the first use you e"

Here they were disturbed by the extre attentively, they heard frooddess of my heart!" uttered in accents of rapture; while from the other, the vociferation was so violent they could distinctly hear nothing

The white do to both parties; and then, returning to Cecilia, said, "Can you conjecture asthose soft speeches? a Shylock! his knife all the while in his hand, and his design, doubtless, to cut as near the heart as possible! while the loud cackling fro to the riotous merriment of a noisy Mentor! when next I hear a disturbance, I shall expect to see sooras stunned by his talkative disciples"

"To own the truth," said Cecilia, "the allect of the characters assumed by these masquers has been the chief source of : for at a place of this sort, the next best thing to a character well supported is a character ridiculously burlesqued"