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Cecilia: Or, Memoirs of an Heiress ? Volume 1
Cecilia Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 1 Author:Fanny Burney 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 ... more »what he inherited from the labours of his predecessors.« less