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"I have no intention, no wish, Sir," cried she, "to break into the income or estate left me by my uncle; on the contrary, I hold them sacred, and think myself bound in conscience never to live beyond theard as more peculiarly my own property, and therefore think myself at liberty to dispose of it as I please"

"What," cried he, in a rage, "ive it up for an old pot-hook? no, no, won't suffer it; sha'n't be, sha'n't be, I say! if you want soet 'eh, too"

Cecilia for soe and sordid humour by an opposition that was only intended to teize her; but she soon found herself extremely ible in avarice; he neither troubled hi, but was contented with refusing her as a childher she did not knohat she wanted, and therefore should not have what she asked

And with this answer, after all that she could urge, she was compelled to leave the house, as he co in vinegar, and he could stay talking no longer

The disgust hich this behaviour filled her, was doubled by the sha to the Harrels with her promise unperformed; she deliberated upon everyto serve the to prevail upon Mr Delvile to interfere in her favour She liked not, indeed, the office of solicitation to so haughty a ave way to her generosity, and she ordered the chairmen to carry her to St James's Square