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"Well, then," said Cecilia, "at least it must be confessed I have judiciously chosen you!"

"You have, indeed, done hest honour," he answered

They then talked of Belfield, and Mr Monckton confirood health After which, he enquired if she had seen any thing more of the Delviles?

"Yes," said Cecilia, "Mrs Delvile called upon htful woh to do her justice"

"Is she civil to you?"

"Civil? she is all kindness!"

"Then depend upon it she has so in viehenever that is not the case she is all insolence And Mr Delvile,--pray what do you think of him?"

"O, I think him insufferable! and I cannot sufficiently thank you for that tie of habitation I would not live under the same roof with him for the world!"

"Well, and do you not now begin also to see the son properly?"

"Properly? I don't understand you"

"Why as the very son of such parents, haughty and impertinent"

"No, indeed; he has not the smallest resemblance [to] his father, and if he resembles his mother, it is only what every one must ho impartially sees her"

"You know not that family But how, indeed, should you, when they are in a coe? They have all their designs upon you, and if you are not carefully upon your guard, you will be the dupe to the but what every body else reat share of pride, and a s in their way, and doubtless theytheir estates"

"Indeed you are mistaken; I am certain they have no such intention: on the contrary, they all even teasingly persist in thinking ave him a history of their several suspicions

"The impertinence of report," she added, "has so much convinced theht merely as rivals, that I can only clear myself of partiality for one of them, to have it instantly concluded I feel it for the other And, far fro hurt that I appear to be disposed of, Mr Delvile openly seconds the pretensions of Sir Robert, and his son officiously persuadesbut tricks to discover your real situation"