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And then he disappeared

"Why, ive the man so much money? Don't you see he is crazy? I dare say he would have been just as well contented with sixpence"

"I know not what he is," said Cecilia, "but his ular than his senti; and if he is actuated by charity to raise subscriptions for the indigent, he can surely apply to no one who ought so readily to contribute as erly told him the transaction

"Scandalous!" he exclaiive orders never to aduineas! I never heard so i in my life! Indeed, Miss Beverley, you must be more discreet in future, you will else be ruined before you knohere you are"

"Thus it is," said Cecilia, half s, "that we can all lecture one another! to-day you recommend econo it to you"

"Nay," answered he, "that was quite anotheris quite another thing to an extortion of this sort"

"It is another thing indeed," said she, "but I know not that it is therefore a better"

Mr Harrelupon the different estimates of expence and economy made by the dissipated and the charitable, soon retired to her own apartment, deter, by the assistance of her new and very singularher knowledge of distress

Objects are, however, never wanting for the exercise of benevolence; report soon published her liberality, and those ished to believe it, failed not to enquire into its truth She was soon at the head of a little band of pensioners, and, never satisfied with the generosity of her donations, found in a very short tiuardians was scarce adequate to the calls of her oodness and charity, passed undisturbed another week of the life of Cecilia: but when the fervour of self- approbation lost its novelty, the pleasure hich her new plan was begun first subsided into tranquillity, and then sunk into languor To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charh she had sickened of the turbulence of perpetual co all her tihed for the comfort of society and the relief of communication But she saith astonishment the difficulty hich this was to be obtained: the endless succession of diversions, the continual rotation of asseements, of which, while every one complained, every one was proud to boast, so effectually is and friendly intercourse, that, whichever way she turned herself, all commerce seemed impracticable, but such as either led to dissipation, or accidentally flowed from it