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She went on, therefore, as before, distributing with a lavish hand all she could spare froainst ih she sometimes unavoidably endured, her discernence, saved her fro frequently And the steadiness hich she repulsed those whom she detected in deceit, was a check upon tricks and fraud, though it could not wholly put a stop to the appeared worthless and valueless; it had failed to procure her the establishment for which she once flattered herself it seened; it had been disdained by the Delviles, for the sake of whose connection she had alone ever truly rejoiced in possessing it; and after such a conviction of its inefficacy to secure her happiness, she regarded it as of little iht it alave it a consequence to which with her it was a stranger

In this manner with Cecilia passed the first winter of her majority She had sedulously filled it with occupations, and her occupations had proved fertile in keeping herit to chearfulness Calls upon her attention so soothing, and avocations so various for her tiinally she had planned thehts those sorrohich, if indulged, would have rested in them incessantly