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"Is that, then, disagreeable to you?"

"You shall yourself judge, when I have told you that fro your house till this verywith you, I have never once had any conversation, society or intercourse, in which friendship or affection have had any share, or my mind has had the least interest"

She then entered into a detail of her way of life, told him how little suited to her taste was the unbounded dissipation of the Harrels, and feelingly expatiated upon the disappointment she had received fro friend "In her," she continued, "had I found the companion I came prepared to meet, the companion from whom I had so lately parted, and in whose society I expected to find consolation for the loss of yours and of Mrs Charlton's, I should have coht then have entertained ht then have worn the appearance of variety and pleasure But where the uid and insipid; and accusto been to think friendship the first of hureatest of human enjoyments, how ever can I reconcileacquaintance without any concern either for preserving or esteeer search of amusement, with no companion for the hours of retire the present htlessness?"

Mr Monckton, who heard these co to soften or rethen and encrease the out with added censures the change in it she had been lately coh ruinous of your time, and detrimental to your happiness, use will, I fear, familiarize, and familiarity render pleasant"

"These suspicions, sir," said Cecilia, " , should you still continue to harbour them?"

"Because your trial has yet been too short to prove your fir to which time cannot contentedly accusto such a test as ht fully satisfy you; but nevertheless, not to be too presuers which you think surroundat home and by myself"