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"Nor can I," answered the dos became so particularly your favourite as to be entrusted with powers to dispose of you"

"You are mistaken indeed; he is entrusted with no powers but such as his own fancy has suggested"

"But how has Mr Delvile offended you, that with him only you seem to have no commerce or communication?"

"Mr Delvile!" repeated Cecilia, still more surprised, "are you also acquainted with Mr Delvile?"

"He is certainly a man of fashion," continued the domino, "and he is also a man of honour; surely, then, he would be more pleasant for confidence and consultation than one whose only notion of happiness is money, whose only idea of excellence is avarice, and whose only conception of sense is distrust!" Here a violent outcry again interrupted their conversation; but not till Cecilia had satisfied her doubts concerning the white doht easily, at the house of Mr Monckton, have gathered the little circumstances of her situation to which he alluded, and whose size and figure exactly resembled those of her new acquaintance

The author of the former disturbance was now the occasion of the present: the fiend, having vainly traversed the room in search of Cecilia, stumbled accidentally upon Harlequin, before he was freed from the relicks of his own mischief; and unable to resist the teave vent to the wrath so often excited by the blunders, forwardness, and tricks of Morrice, and inflicted upon him, with his oooden sword, which he seized for that purpose, a chastisement the ine any reason for this violent attack, and already cut with the glass, and bruised with the fall, spared not his lungs inknown his disapprobation of such treatardless either of his complaints or his resistance, forbore not to belabour hihts And then, after artfully playing sundry antics under pretence of still supporting his character, with a motion too sudden for prevention, and too rapid for pursuit, he escaped out of the roo down stairs, threw himself into an hackney chair, which conveyed hied his dress before he returned ho the experiment he had made, and conscious too late that, had he appeared in a character he ht have avowed, he could, without i But such is deservedly the frequent fate of cunning, which, while it plots surprise and detection of others, corace