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"Yes, Sir, soberly, as Lady Grace says"

"Then I envy you extremely, for you have some amusement always in your oer How desirable that is!"

"And have not you the same resources?"

"O no! I aive the universe for a disposition less difficult to please Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing O, 'tis heavy work! Don't you find it so, ma'a, that Cecilia would not trouble herself to answer it: but her silence, as before, passed wholly unnoticed, exciting neither question nor co pause now succeeded, which he broke at last, by saying, as he writhed hireeable if there were backs to them "Tis intolerable to be forced to sit like a school-boy The first study of life is ease There is, indeed, no other study that pays the trouble of attainment Don't you think so, ma'am?"

"But may not even that," said Cecilia, "by so much study, become labour?"

"I a your pardon,your pardon, but I was thinking of sohing, "for what I said by no means merited any attention"

"Will you do lass to examine some lady at a distance

"O no," said Cecilia, "that would be trying your patience too severely"

"These glasses shew one nothing but defects," said he; "I am sorry they were ever invented They are the ruin of all beauty; no complexion can stand them I believe that solo will never be over; I hate a solo; it sinks, it depresses me intolerably"

"You will presently, Sir," said Cecilia, looking at the bill of the concert, "have a full piece; and that, I hope, will revive you"

"A full piece! oh insupportable! it stuns, it fatigues, it overpowers me beyond endurance! no taste in it, no delicacy, no roo"

"Perhaps, then, you are only fond of singing?"

"I should be, if I could hear it; but we are now so miserably off in voices, that I hardly ever atte myself deaf fro that requires attention Nothing gives pleasure that does not force its oay"

"You only, then, like loud voices, and great powers?"