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"Well, then," said Cecilia, more and more interested to hear him, "if you will not visit us, will you at least permit us to return with you to some place where you can be seated?"

"I ith pleasure," cried he, "go to any place where you ard accommodation or inconvenience"

They then all went back to the cottage, which was now e out at work

"Will you then, Sir," said Cecilia, "give me leave to enquire whether Lord Vannelt is acquainted with your retirement, and if it will not much surprize and disappoint hiht to be surprised I would have quitted his house, if no other, not even this cottage, had a roof to afford me shelter!"

"I am sorry, indeed, to hear it," said Cecilia; "I had hoped he would have known your value, and e," answered he, "is as hard to relate as to be endured There is coh oppression in a general sense provokes the wrath of ation of itsbut derision Those who give the offence, by the worthy few e will be despised Conscious of this, I disdained ht to be the only judge, and, shaking off the base trammels of interest and subjection, I quitted the house in silent indignation, not chusing to remonstrate, where I desired not to be reconciled"

"And was there nowith Lord Vannelt, or giving up the whole world?"

"I weighed every thing maturely," answered he, "before I ible, that I am certain I can never repent it I had friends ould with pleasure have presented ainst leading that kind of life, and I would not, therefore, idly rove frorace, and pursuing hope in defiance of coive up patronage for ever

"I retired to private lodgings to deliberate what next could be done I had lived in many ways, I had been unfortunate or imprudent in all The law I had tried, but its rudi; the arued with indolence, than eneral dissipation had then its turn, but the expence to which it led was ruinous, and self-reproach baffled pleasure while I pursued it; I have even--yes, there are few things I have left untried,--I have even,--for why now disguise it?--"