Excerpt from The British Novelists, Vol. 40: With an Essay and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical

"Peace to the spirits of my honoured parents, respected be their remains, and immortalised their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relics to dust, commit to tradition the record of their goodness! and, oh! may their orphan descendant be influenced through life by the remembrance of their purity, and in death be solaced, that by her it was unsullied!"

Such was the secret prayer with which the only survivor of the Beverley family quitted the abode of her youth, and residence of her forefathers; while tears of recollecting sorrow filled her eyes, and obstructed the last view of her native town which had excited them.

Cecilia, this fair traveller, had lately entered into the one-and-twentieth year of her age.

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