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Lady Margaret's town house was in Soho Square; and scarcely had Cecilia entered it, before her desire to speed her departure,the, if possible, to see the answers: To Miss Cecilia Beverley,----These November 8, 1779 Miss,--Received yours of the same date; can't cos

Miss Cecilia Beverley To Miss Beverley

Mr Delvile has too many affairs of importance upon his hands, to e them Mr Delvile will acquaint Miss Beverley when it shall be in his power to see her

St James's-square, Nov 8

These characteristic letters, which at another tiht have diverted Cecilia, now er to quit town, she waswith Mr Delvile over, who, oppressive to her even when he meant to be kind, she foresaas in wrath, would be imperious even to rudeness Desirous, however, to make one interview suffice for both, and to settle whatever business gs, whom she had not spirits to encounter without absolute necessity, and infored he would not trouble hiain

Two days passed without any e from them; they were spent chiefly alone, and very unco content to see little of her, while he knew she saw nothing of any body else On the third aret's ill- humoured looks, and still more weary of Miss Bennet's parasitical conversation, she detero to her bookseller, and look over and order into the country such new publications as seemed to promise her any pleasure

She sent therefore, for a chair, and glad to have devised for herself any a the shop, she saw the Bookseller engaged in close conference with ato hi, said, "To ter is no labour to ht of my life, and therefore, and not for dirty pelf, I wish to make it my profession"

The speech struck Cecilia, but the voice struck her reat, that she stopt short to look at hi a man who attended her, and desired to know her commands