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"What can I do so well? Mrs Delvile is a char woman, and her conversation would afford le day, than under this roof I should obtain in a twelve such a change?"

"I really wish it, but I know not yet if it is practicable: on Thursday, however, I am to dine with her, and then, if it is in my power, I will hint to her my desire"

"And can Miss Beverley possibly wish," cried Mr Monckton with earnestness, "to reside in such a house? Is not Mr Delvile the hty, and self-sufficient of men? Is not his wife the proudest of women? And is not the whole family odious to all the world?"

"You aeneral character? Mr Delvile, indeed, deserves all the censure he can meet for his wearisome parade of superiority; but his lady by no means merits to be included in the sa with her, and though I waited upon her with a strong prejudice in her disfavour, I observed in her no pride that exceeded the bounds of propriety and native dignity"

"Have you often been at the house? Do you know the son, too?"

"I have seen him three or four times"

"And what do you think of him?"

"I hardly know enough of hie fairly"

"But what does he seeance, all the contemptuous insolence of his father?"

"O no! far from it indeed; his mind seems to be liberal and noble, open to ier to honour and pro your own ht you had read his: I would advise you sedulously to avoid the whole family; you will find all intercourse with them irksome and comfortless: such as the father appears at once, the wife and the son will, in a few s, appear also They are descended from the same stock, and inherit the same self-complacency Mr Delvile ates the other to believe that all birth and rank would be at an end in the world, if their own superb family had not a promise of support from their hopeful Mortimer Should you precipitately settle yourself in their house, you would very soon be totally weighed down by their united insolence"

Cecilia again and warmly attempted to defend them; but Mr Monckton was so positive in his assertions, and so significant in his insinuations to their discredit, that she was at length persuaded she had judged too hastily, and, after thanking him for his counsel, promised not to take any measures towards a removal without his advice