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Yet, finding the error into which her ardour of reforid seclusion from company was productive of a lassitude as little favourable to active virtue as dissipation itself, she resolved to soften her plan, and byamuseolden rasp, yet always invites our wishes

For this purpose she desired to attend Mrs Harrel to the next Opera that should be represented

The following Saturday, therefore, she accompanied that lady and Mrs Mears to the Haymarket, escorted by Mr Arnott

They were very late; the Opera was begun, and even in the lobby the croas so great that their passage was obstructed Here they were presently accosted by Miss Larolles, who, running up to Cecilia and taking her hand, said, "Lord, you can't conceive how glad I am to see you! why, es? You are quite in luck in coht, I assure you; it's the best Opera we have had this season: there's such a et in this half hour The coffee-roohtful?"

This intimation was sufficient for Mrs Harrel, whose love of the Opera was merely a love of company, fashion, and shew; and therefore to the coffee-room she readily led the way

And here Cecilia found rather the appearance of a brilliant asseentlemen, collected merely to see and to entertain one another, than of distinct and casual parties,only for room to enter a theatre

The first person that addressed theuish, "How divinely you look to-night!" proceeded to pay his compliments to some other ladies

"Do, pray, now," cried Miss Larolles, "observe Mr Meadows! only just see where he has fixed hi the fire from every body! I do assure you that's always his way, and it's , for if one's ever so cold, he lollops so, that one's quite starved But youhe does that is quite as bad, for if he gets a seat, he never offers to ue And besides, if one is waiting for one's carriage two hours together, he makes it a rule never to stir a step to see for it Only think how monstrous!"