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"Peace to the spirits of my honoured parents, respected be their remains, and immortalized their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relicks to dust, cooodness; and Oh, h life by the remembrance of their purity, and be solaced in death, that by her it was unsullied!"

Such was the secret prayer hich the only survivor of the Beverley family quitted the abode of her youth, and residence of her forefathers; while tears of recollecting sorrow filled her eyes, and obstructed the last view of her native tohich had excited them

Cecilia, this fair traveller, had lately entered into the one-and- twentieth year of her age Her ancestors had been rich farh her father, in whoance had supplanted the rapacity of wealth, had spent his tientle his store, to live upon what he inherited from the labours of his predecessors She had lost hi survived hined her to the care of the Dean of ------, her uncle With this gentleencies, the accu and prosperous family were centred, she had passed the last four years of her life; and a feeeks only had yet elapsed since his death, which, by depriving her of her last relation, made her heiress to an estate of 3000 pounds per annu her name, if she married, to the disposal of her hand and her riches

But though thus largely indebted to fortune, to nature she had yet greater obligations: her forant, her heart was liberal; her countenance announced the intelligence of her mind, her complexion varied with every emotion of her soul, and her eyes, the heralds of her speech, now bealistened with sensibility

For the short period of her ement of her fortune and the care of her person, had by the Dean been entrusted to three guardians, a whom her own choice was to settle her residence: but her mind, saddened by the loss of all her natural friends, coveted to regain its serenity in the quietness of the country, and in the bosoed and maternal counsellor, whom she loved as her mother, and to whom she had been known froed to relinquish, a long repining expectant being eager, by entering it, to bequeath to another the anxiety and suspense he had suffered hih probably without much impatience to shorten their duration in favour of the next successor; but the house of Mrs Charlton, her benevolent friend, was open for her reception, and the alleviating tenderness of her conversation took fro it