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The next , while the fa to his proh colour overspread his face as he entered the roorief at his fallen fortune, and shah he endeavoured to cover under an air of gaiety and unconcern, gave an aardness to his manners, and a visible distress to his countenance: Mr Monckton received him with pleasure, and Cecilia, who saw the conflict of his philosophy with his pride, dressed her features once more in smiles, which however faint and heartless, shewed her desire to reassure him Miss Bennet, as usual when not called upon by the aret, always disagreeable and repulsive to the friends of her husband, though she was not nowand irritable Belfield, to wear an air of rude superiority race

This notion, which strongly affected him, made him, for one instant, hesitate whether he should remain another in the same rooentleness and good breeding of Cecilia, seemed so studious to make anation, and took his seat at the table Yet was it some time before he could recover even the assumed vivacity which this suspected insult had robbed him of, sufficiently to enter into conversation with any appearance of ease or pleasure But, after a while, soothed by the attentions of Cecilia and Mr Monckton, his uneasiness wore off, and the native spirit and liveliness of his character broke forth with their accusto himself, however, only to Cecilia, "will not soas to criticiseto rule, and to rule established from time immemorial: but lest any of you should so much err as to fancy shabby what is only characteristic, I must endeavour to be beforehand with the malice of conjecture, and have the honour to inforiment, of the third story, and under the tattered banner of scribbling volunteers! a race which, if it boasts not the courage of heroes, at least equals them in enmity This coat, therefore, is merely the uniform of my corps, and you will all, I hope, respect it as emblematical of wit and erudition"

"We aily can sport with it"