"Oh, every thing you can conceive; house, stables, china, laces,
horses, caps, everything in the world."

"And do you intend to buy any thing?"

"Lord, no; but one likes to see the people's things."

Cecilia then begged they would excuse her attendance.

"O, by no means!" cried Miss Larolles; "you must go, I assure you;
there'll be such a monstrous crowd as you never saw in your life. I
dare say we shall be half squeezed to death."

"That," said Cecilia, "is an inducement which you must not expect
will have much weight with a poor rustic just out of the country: it
must require all the polish of a long residence in the metropolis to
make it attractive."

"O but do go, for I assure you it will be the best sale we shall
have this season. I can't imagine, Mrs Harrel, what poor Lady
Belgrade will do with herself; I hear the creditors have seized
every thing; I really believe creditors are the cruelest set of
people in the world! they have taken those beautiful buckles out of
her shoes! Poor soul! I declare it will make my heart ache to see
them put up. It's quite shocking, upon my word. I wonder who'll buy
them. I assure you they were the prettiest fancied I ever saw. But
come, if we don't go directly, there will be no getting in."

Cecilia again desired to be excused accompanying them, adding that