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Cecilia now, growing very iht not et into the pit?

"I fear," said the Captain, s any assistance, "you will find it extre; for "

The ladies, however, accompanied by Mr Arnott,to the custo of it, had been considerably exaggerated They were separated, indeed, but their accoood

Cecilia was much vexed to find the first act of the Opera almost over; but she was soon still more dissatisfied when she discovered that she had no chance of hearing the little which remained: the place she had happened to find vacant was next to a party of young ladies, ere so earnestly engaged in their own discourse, that they listened not to a note of the Opera, and so infinitely diverted with their oitticis and loquacity allowed no one in their vicinity to hear better than themselves Cecilia tried in vain to confine her attention to the singers; she was distant froe, and to therin and ith she resolved to make an effort for entertainht her to the Opera were destroyed, to try by listening to her fair neighbours, whether those who occasioned her disappointment could make her any amends

For this purpose she turned to them wholly; yet was at first in no little perplexity to understand as going forward, since so universal was the eagerness for talking, and so insur, that every one seemed to have her wishes bounded by a continual utterance of words, without waiting for any answer, or scarce even desiring to be heard

But when, soan better to comprehend their discourse, wretchedly indeed did it supply to her the loss of the Opera She heard nothing but descriptions of tris, and complaints of hair-dressers, hints of conquest that teeements which were inflated with exultation

At the end of the act, by the crowding forward of the gentle room for her by herself, and she had then so the rest of the Opera in peace, for the co , lest their attention should be drawn for a e