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Cecilia was satisfied by this assent, and he then went away

"A strange flighty character!" cried Mr Monckton, "yet of uncoinative, wild and eccentric, he has abilities for any station, and uish himself almost where-ever he pleased"

"I knew not," said Cecilia, "the full worth of steadiness and prudence till I knew this young , a love of virtue thesteadiness and prudence, he can neither act with consistency nor prosper with continuance"

"He is well enough," said Lady Margaret, who had heard the whole arguh, I say; and there co so difficult"

Cecilia, offended by a speech which implied a rude desire to dispose of her, went up stairs to her own roo men and Cecilia were alluded to in the same sentence, retired to his library

She then ordered a chair, and went to Portland-street, to fulfil what she had offered to Belfield, and to revive his mother and sister by the pleasure of the proence being of equal consequence to both, she did not now repine at the presence of Mrs Belfield She made her communication with thethe ill she had to relate with respect to Belfield's present way of living, by endeavouring to awaken affection and joy fro She counselled therin at his misfortunes, which he would but construe into reproach of his ill ement; and she represented that when once he was restored to his faht almost imperceptibly be led into some less wild and more profitable scheht proper to relate, kindly interspersing her account with the best advice and best coest, she made an end of her visit; for the affliction of Mrs Belfield upon hearing the actual situation of her son, was so cla at Belfield's want of courage to encounter it, and having no opportunity in such a storm to console the soft Henrietta, whose tears flowed abundantly that her brother should thus be fallen, she only pro Mrs Belfield to lad to leave the house, where her presence had no power to quiet their distress