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He then told her that in order to settle with her guardians, she must write to them in form, to de her minority, and announce her intention for the future to take the ement of her fortune into her own hands

She immediately followed his directions, and consented to re now, therefore, unavoidably fixed for soht it proper and decent to attearet in her favour She exerted all her powers to please and to oblige her; but the exertion was necessarily vain, not only from the disposition, but the situation of her ladyship, since every effort made for this conciliatory purpose, rendered her doubly amiable in the eyes of her husband, and consequently to herself more odious than ever Her jealousy, already but too well founded, received every hour the poisonous nourishment of fresh conviction, which so much soured and exasperated a terew daily more acri this irascibility by general moroseness, had not the same suspicious watchfulness which discovered to her the passion of her husband, served equally to make manifest the indifference and innocence of Cecilia; to reproach her therefore, she had not any pretence, though her knowledge how much she had to dread her, past current in her ry and the Violent use little discrimination; whom they like, they enquire not if they approve; but whoever, no ly, stands in their way, they scruple not to ill use, and conclude they ave not over her attempt, which she considered but as her due while she continued in her house Her general character, also, for peevishness and haughty ill-breeding, skilfully, from time to time, displayed, and artfully repined at by Mr Monckton, still kept her fro any peculiar animosity to herself, and made her impute all that passed to the mere rancour of ill-humour She confined herself, however, as much as possible to her own apartment, where her sorrow for Mrs Charlton almost hourly increased, by the co of her house with the Grove

That worthy old lady left her grand-daughters her co-heiresses and sole executrixes She bequeathed froh she left some donations for the poor, and several of her friends were re them Cecilia had her picture, and favourite trinkets, with a paragraph in her will, that as there was no one she so much loved, had her fortune been less splendid, she should have shared with her grand-daughters whatever she had to bestow