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Cecilia gave him many thanks for the kind intention, and deteruided by him in the disposal and direction of her fortune

Mean time he had now another part to act; he saw that with Cecilia nothingnot a doubt of hisbut honour; but he had too e him in the same manner, and too ment at defiance

To parry, therefore, the conjectures whichher, he had already prepared Lady Margaret to wish herself of the party: for however disagreeable to him was her presence and her company, he had no other means to be under the same roof with Cecilia

Miss Bennet, the wretched tool of his various schemes, and the mean sycophant of his lady, had been employed by hi her of his intention to go to town, at the sauardians She pretended to have learned this intelligence by accident, and to coo to London herself at the sans, and be so infiraret made this counsel by nothe artful instructions which she received, put in her way so strong aher how little her company ished, that in the madness of her spite she deter how she tor Mr Monckton, she was led on by her false confident to invite Cecilia to her own house

Mr Monckton, in who his wife's perverseness, affected to look much disconcerted at the proposal; while Cecilia, by noit necessary to extend her coy, and declined the invitation

Lady Margaret, little versed in civility, and unused to the arts of persuasion, could not, even for a favourite project, prevail upon herself to use entreaty, and therefore, thinking her sche ht how h the moment he could speak alone with Cecilia he made it his care to remove it

He represented to her that, however privately she s by herself, and gave an hint which she could not but understand, that in going or in staying with only servants, suspicions ht soon be raised, that the plan and iven out