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"I wonder not at her disappointuine, and a son of so ht well indeed be bitter"

"Yes, and besides the disappoint herself for always co hih ht herself so sure of his rising, that she believed we should all thank her for it in the end And she always used to say that he was born to be a gentle it would be to have him made a tradesman"

"I hope, at least, she has not the additional rateful for her fondness, however injudicious itbut coood of him, for he has owned to ement, he could not have run the course he has run, for he should have been obliged to enter into business, whether he had liked it or not But h he will not tell it her, and therefore she says that unless he gets well, she will punish herself all the rest of her life, and never go back to her house, and never hire another servant, and never eat any thing but bread, nor drink any thing but water!"

"Poor unhappy woman!" cried Cecilia, "how dearly does she pay for her ience! but surely you are not also to suffer in the same o and live with one of my sisters: but I would not quit her for the world; I should think myself wicked indeed to leave her now Besides, I don't at all repine at the little hardships I go through at present, because my poor brother is in so much distress, that all we save may be really turned to account; but e lived so hardly only to procure hiht to, I must own I used often to think it unfair, and if I had not loved him dearly, I should not have borne it so well, perhaps, as I ought"

Cecilia now began to think it high tih she felt herself so ave her a desire to lengthen the conversation She ardently wished to make her so, or of being again refused; she had, however, devised a private sche her uineas, and therefore, after earnestly begging to hear from her if she could possibly be of any use, she told her that she should not find her confidence ain to see her soon, reluctantly departed