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"We are all over-ready," continued Henrietta, "to bla all this ti so with the great as I used to do, for now I have seen a little er at his behaviour: for I kno it is, and I see that those who have had good educations, and kept great co!--they seeentle, so soft-e! they seeive pleasure to other people, and as if they never thought at all of the her head, "you have caught the enthusias condemned it! Oh have a care lest, like hi!"

"There, is no danger for me, madam," answered she, "for the people I so much admire are quite out of my reach I hardly ever even see them; and perhaps it may so happen I , "are there, then, uish?"

"Oh no indeed!" cried she, eagerly, "there is only one! there can be --I mean there are only a few--" she checked herself, and stopt

"Whoever you admire," cried Cecilia, "your ade it not too far, lest it should wander from your heart to your peace, and make you wretched for life"

"Ah mada of! but indeed you are quitebad ofher, "I scarce think so well of any one!"

"But I et he is so much above oodness to my brother, and never think of hi him, sometimes, to the other people that I see, because he ain"

"His acquaintance, then," said Cecilia, "has done you but an ill office, and happy it would be for you could you forget you had ever made it"

"O, I shall never do that! for the more I think of him, the more I am out of humour with every body else! O Miss Beverley! we have a sad acquaintance indeed! I'm sure I don't wonder my brother was so ashamed of them They are all so rude, and so free, and put one so out of countenance,--O how different is this person you are thinking of! he would not distress anybody, or make one ashaentle, always obliging!--sometimes I think you must be his sister--once, too, I heard--but that was contradicted"