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"Good Lord, Miss Beverley!" cried Mrs Harrel, starting, "you talk just as if ere ruined!"

"I mean not that," replied Cecilia, "but I would fain, by pointing out your danger, prevail with you to prevent in time so dreadful a catastrophe"

Mrs Harrel, more affronted than alarmed, heard this ansith much displeasure, and after a sullen hesitation, peevishly said, "I htful things to me; I am sure we only live like the rest of the world, and I don't see why a man of Mr Harrel's fortune should live any worse As to his having now and then a little debt or two, it is nothing but what every body else has You only think it so odd, because you a'n't used to it: but you are quite mistaken if you suppose he does notthat as soon as ever he receives his rents, he intends to discharge every bill he has in the world"

"I alad to hear it," answered Cecilia, "and I heartily wish he may have the resolution to adhere to his purpose I feared you would thinkood-will could alone have induced me to hazard what I have said to you Ithat I hope what has already passed will sometiry at reht only censorious, and Cecilia offended at her pettishness and folly, though grieved at her blindness

She was soon, however, recompensed for this vexation by a visit fro her alone, sat with her soance, dissipated all her chagrin

From another circuh a little perplexity; Mr Arnott brought her word that Mr Belfield, alone into the country

She now half suspected that the account of his illness given her by young Delvile, was merely the effect of his curiosity to discover her sentin to his character appeared every species of artifice, she exculpated hin, and concluded that the impatient spirit of Belfield had hurried hi She had no means, however, to hear h uneasy, she was compelled to be patient