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"They say?" cried he, firing with rage, "and who are they? be so good as inform me that?"

"Lord, every body, Sir! it's his common character"

"Then every body is extre very loud, "to pay no land It is a licentiousness that ought by no means to be suffered with i kept open by the servants in waiting, a new step was heard in the passage, which Henrietta i, turned, with uplifted hands to Cecilia, and whispered, "How unlucky! it's ht!"

"Surely he will not come in here?" re-whispered Cecilia

But, at the same moment, he opened the door, and entered the roo back, but Henrietta catching him by the arm, told him in a low voice, that she had ed for the day, but begged him to keep still and quiet, as the least noise would discover them

Belfield then stopt; but the embarrassment of Cecilia was extreme; to find herself in his room after the speeches she had heard from his mother, and to continue with him in it by connivance, when she knew she had been represented as quite at his service, distressed and provoked her iry with Henrietta for not sooner infor her whose apartment she had borrowed Yet now to reht of; she kept, therefore, fixed to her seat, though changing colour everythis painful interruption she lost Mrs Belfield's next answer, and another speech or two fro Belfield's entering his room unheard: but the next voice that called their attention was that of Mr Hobson, who just then walked into the parlour

"Why what's to do here?" cried he, facetiously, "nothing but chairs and livery servants! Why, ma'am, what is this your rout day? Sir your most humble servant I ask pardon, but I did not know you at first But co's as cheap as standing, and what I say is this; when afurther, reat solemnity, "to corily, "it's no business of entleman that I don't know the naentleman?"