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The next entleed permission of Mrs Harrel to have him asked upstairs, and was not a little surprized when he proved to be the saular exclamations had so much struck her at Mr Monckton's, and at the rehearsal of Artaserse

Abruptly and with a stern aspect advancing to her, "You are rich," he cried; "are you therefore worthless?"

"I hope not," answered she, in so his intention was to rob the without ceasing till two or three servants hastened into the roons to them to stay, and stood quietly herself to ould follow

The old ue with Cecilia

"Know you then," he said, "a blalare of day shall shine resplendent, but in the darkness of ive you reflections unembittered, and slumbers unbroken? tell me, know you this use?"

"Not so well, perhaps," answered she, "as I ought; but I ain, then, while yet youth and inexperience, new to the callousness of power and affluence, leave soance of luxury and folly; to-day look deeper, and see, and learn to pity, the misery of disease and penury"

He then put into her hand a paper which contained aaccount of the misery to which a poor and wretched family had been reduced, by sickness and various other misfortunes

Cecilia, "open as day tohastily perused it, took out her purse, and offering to hiive if this is insufficient"

"Hast thou so h it has cursed thee with the temptation of prosperity, not yet rooted from thy mind its native benevolence? I return in part thy liberal contribution; this," taking one guinea, "doublesthy charity distress thee, accelerate the fatal hour of hardness and degeneracy"

He was then going; but Cecilia, following him, said "No, take it all! Who should assist the poor if I will not? Rich, without connections; powerful, without wants; upon whom have they any clai the rest, "and wise as true Give, therefore, whilst yet thou hast the heart to give, and make, in thy days of innocence and kindness, some interest with Heaven and the poor!"