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"What is it?"

"Why you reatest hopes in the world that my father will quarrel with old Mr Delvile!"

"And is that such a delightful thing!"

"O yes; I have lived upon the very idea this fortnight; for then, you know, they'll both be in a passion, and I shall see which of thehtfullest"

"When Lady Honoria whispers," cried Mortimer, "I always suspect some mischief"

"No indeed," answered her ladyship, "I was h really, upon second thoughts, I don't knohether I should not rather condole with her, for I have long been convinced she has a prodigious antipathy to you I saw it the whole tie colour at the very sound of your name; a symptom I never perceived when I talked to her of my Lord Derford, ould certainly have made her a thousand times a better husband"

"If you mean on account of his title, Lady Honoria," said Mr Delvile; "your ladyship etful of the connections of your family, not to remember that Mortimer, after the death of his uncle and myself, must inevitably inherit one far -up family, like my Lord Ernolf's, could offer"

"Yes, Sir; but then, you know, she would have kept her estate, which would have been a vastly better thing than an old pedigree of new relations Besides, I don't find that any body cares for the noble blood of the Delviles but themselves; and if she had kept her fortune, every body, I fancy, would have cared for that"

"Every body, then," said Mr Delvile, "noble, or the blood of an ancient and honourable house, would be thought conta a comparison"

"Dear Sir, what should we all do with birth if it was not for wealth? it would neither take us to Ranelagh nor the Opera; nor buy us caps nor wigs, nor supply us with dinners nor bouquets"

"Caps and wigs, dinners and bouquets!" interrupted Mr Delvile; "your ladyship's estimate of wealth is really extres, they are very serious things, for we should look o about bare-headed; and as to dinners, hoould the Delviles have lasted all these thousand centuries if they had disdained eating them?"

"Whatever rily, "in depreciating a house that has the honour of being nearly allied with your own, you will not, I hope at least, instruct this lady," turning to Cecilia, "to adopt a sinity"