to our accepting money from other people, that we might save up our
own for him, it would be answering no purpose, for he should think
himself a monster to make use of it."

"And what said your mother?"

"Why she gave him a great many promises that she would never vex him
about it again; and indeed, much as I know we are obliged to you,
madam, and gratefully as I am sure I would lay down my life to serve
you, I am very glad in this case that my brother has found it out. For
though I so much wish him to do something for himself, and not to be
so proud, and live in a manner he has no right to do, I think, for all
that, that it is a great disgrace to my' poor father's honest memory,
to have us turn beggars after his death, when he left us all so well
provided for, if we had but known how to be satisfied."

"There is a natural rectitude in your heart," said Cecilia, "that the
ablest casuists could not mend."

She then enquired whither they were removing, and Miss Belfield told
her to Portland Street, Oxford Road, where they were to have two
apartments up two pair of stairs, and the use of a very good parlour,
in which her brother might see his friends. "And this," added she, "is
a luxury for which nobody can blame him, because if he has not the
appearance of a decent home, no gentleman will employ him."

The Padington house, she said, was already let, and her mother was
determined not to hire another, but still to live as penuriously as
possible, in order, notwithstanding his remonstrances, to save all she
could of her income for her son.