Cecilia, Or, Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 1 Paperback - 2012

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 Excerpt: ...guardian master Harrel! and where's t'other? where's old Don Puffabout?" "If you mean Mr. Delvile, sir, I have not ve.t seen him." "Thought so. No matter; as well not. Only tell you he's a German Duke, or a Spanish Don Ferdinand. Well you've me! poorly off else. A couplers ignoramussus! don't know when to buy isor when to sell. No doing business with either of them. We met oncq or twice; all to no purpose; only heard Don Vampus count his old Grandees; how will that get interest for money? Then comes master Harrel----twenty bows to a word, --looks at a watch, --about as big as a sixpence, --poor raw ninny!--a couple of rare guardians! Well you've me, I say; mind that!" Cecilia was wholly unable to devise any answer to these effusions of contempt and anger; and therefore his harrangue lasted without interruption, till he had exhausted G 3.-' aU all his subjects of complaint, and emptied his mind of ill-will; and then settling his-wig, he drew a chair near her, and twinkling his little black eyes in her sace, his rage subfided into the most perfect good humour; and after peering at her some time with a look of much approbation, he said, with an arch nod, " Well, my duck, got ever a sweet-heart yet?" Cecilia laughed, and said "No." "Ah, little rogue, don't believe you! all a fib! better speak out: come, fit I should know; a'n't you my own ward? to be sure almost of age, but not quite, so what's that to me?" She then, more seriously, assured him she had no intelligence of that sort to communicate. "Well, when you have, tell, that's all. Warrant sparks enough hankering. I'll give you some advice. Take care of sharpers; don't trust shoe-buckles, nothing but Bristol stones! tricks in all things. A fine g...