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"And how contribute?" cried he, "by a paltry donation of uineas, may, indeed, obtain them; but he who asks kindness and protection, whose oppressed spirit calls for consolation evensoul, if superior to his fate, to brook the ostentation of patronage, and the insolence of condescension? Yes, yes, the world will save the poor beggar who is starving; but the fallen wretch, ill not cringe for his support, may consume in his oretchedness without pity and without help!"

Cecilia no that the wound his sensibility had received was too painful for argument, and too recent immediately to be healed She forbore, therefore, to detain hi her best wishes, without venturing to hint at her services, she arose, and they all took their leave;--Belfield hastening, as they went, to return to the garden, where, looking over the hedge as they passed, they saw hierness of a ot her own anxieties and sadness, in the concern which she felt for this unfortunate and extraordinary younghim from a life of such hardship and obscurity; but what to a man thus "jealous in honour," thus scrupulous in delicacy, could she propose, without ? His account had, indeed, convinced her how much he stood in need of assistance, but it had shewn her no less how fastidious he would be in receiving it

Nor was she wholly without fear that an earnest solicitude to serve hiht occasion even in himself a iven birth to in his forward and partial hed, seemed no season for her liberality, which she yet resolved to exert the first moment it was unopposed by propriety