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"And a very good notion too," said Mrs Belfield, "for you who have nothing to vex you Ah, one off! nobody knohere! left that lord's house, where he one out into the orld nobody knows for what!"

"Indeed?" said Cecilia, who, froain with his family, "and has he not acquainted you where he is?"

"No, ma'am, no," cried Mrs Belfield, "he's never once told one, nor let me know the least about the ain for a twelveain to that lord's! and I believe in doms, for he has sent here after him I dare say a score of times And no wonder, for I will take upon me to say he won't find his fellow in a hurry, Lord as he is"

"As to his being a Lord," said Mr Hobson, "I areat stress upon that, unless he has got a good long purse of his own, and then, to be sure, a Lord's no bad thing But as to theLord such a one, how d'ye do? and Lord such a one, what do you want? and such sort of co, in coo the right way to work He should have begun with business, and gone into pleasure afterwards and if he had but done that, I'll be bold to say wetea with us over this fireside"

"My son, Sir," said Mrs Belfield, rather angrily, "was another sort of a person than a person of business: he always despised it from a child, and coentle business," said Mr Hobson, very contemptuously, "why soAnd if he had been brought up behind a counter, instead of dangling after these saht have had a house of his own over his head, and been as good a man as myself"

"A house over his head?" said Mrs Belfield, "why he ht have had what he would, and have done what he would, if he had but followed my advice, and put himself a little forward I have told hireat people he lived ast for a place at court, for I know they've so many they hardly knohat to do with the that he should be soh, for anything I know, as I have often told hiht have been an Aone nobody knohere!"-"I am sorry, indeed," said Cecilia, who knew not whether most to pity or wonder at her blind folly; "but I doubt not you will hear of him soon"