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The candour of this speech, in which his aversion to the Delviles was openly acknowledged, and rationally justified, somewhat quieted the suspicions of Cecilia, which far an, therefore, to conclude that some accident, inexplicable as unfortunate, had occasioned the partial discovery to Mr Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defa upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her
Coue and afflicting, she could only clear him to be lost in perplexity, she could only accuse him to be penetrated with horror She endeavoured to suspend her judgment till tiht to finish her business and leave London
She renewed, therefore, again, the subject of Mr Briggs, and told him how vain had been her effort to settle with hi her, and the next ether to his house, where, after an obstinate battle, they gained a coave up all his accounts, and, in a few days, by the active interference of Mr Monckton, her affairs holly taken out of his hands He stormed, and prophesied all ill to Cecilia, but it was not to any purpose; he was so disagreeable to her, by his ible to her in matters of business, that she was happy to have done with hi his accounts, they were all found clear and exact, and his desire to retain his power over her fortune, proved to have no other e it, even for another, gave him a satisfaction he knew not how to relinquish
Mr Monckton, who, though a man of pleasure, understood business perfectly well, now instructed and directed her in ement of her affairs The estate which devolved to her from her uncle, and which was all in landed property, she continued to coement of the steas employed in his life-time; and her own fortune from her father, which was all in the stocks, she now di out to pay Mr Monckton the principal and interest which she owed hi with her Bookseller