Cecilia: Or Memoirs of an Heiress ¿ Volume 1

Cecilia this fair traveller had lately entered into the one-and-twentieth year of her age. Her ancestors had been rich farmers in the county of Suffolk though her father in whom a spirit of elegance had supplanted the rapacity of wealth had spent his time as a private country gentleman satisfied without increasing his store to live upon what he inherited from the labours of his predecessors.