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"I know it only by common report,in a ht is so easy"
"Have you any objection,me your name?"
"No, sir; but your business can hardly be very important, if you are yet to learn whoh, therefore, for us to meet when you are elsewhere satisfied in this point"
She would then have left the rooer, "you will have patience; it is necessary, before I can open my business, that I should hear your name from yourself"
"Well, sir," cried she with some hesitation, "you can scarce have co that its owner is Cecilia Beverley"
"That, madam, is your maiden name"
"My
"Are you not married, madam?"
"Married, sir?" she repeated, while her cheeks were the colour of scarlet
"It is, properly, therefore, madam, the name of your husband that I mean to ask"
"And by what authority, sir," cried she, equally astonished and offended, "do you make these extraordinary enquiries?"
"I aleston, the next heir to this estate, by your uncle's will, if you die without children, or change your name when you marry His authority of enquiry, madam, I presume you will allow, and he has vested it in me by a letter of attorney"
Cecilia's distress and confusion were now unspeakable; she knew not what to own or deny, she could not conjecture how she had been betrayed, and she had never gleston, madam," he continued, "has been pretty credibly informed that you are actually married: he is very desirous, therefore, to knohat are your intentions, for your continuing to be called Miss Beverley, as if still single, leaves him quite in the dark: but, as he is so deeply concerned in the affair, he expects, as a lady of honour, you will deal with him without prevarication"
"This de, "is so extremely--so--so little expected--"
"The way, madam, in these cases, is to keep pretty closely to the point; are you married or are you not?"
Cecilia, quite confounded, e, when thus fore it in her present situation, would involve her in difficulties innuleston has a large faain, very much enculy connive at cheating hi actually h your husband does not take your name"