CHAPTER vii. — AN EXPEDIENT.
CHAPTER viii. — A REMONSTRANCE.
CHAPTER ix. — A VICTORY.
BOOK IV.
CHAPTER i. — A COMPLAINT.
CHAPTER ii. — A SYMPATHY.
CHAPTER iii. — A CONFLICT.
CHAPTER iv. — AN EXPECTATION.
CHAPTER v. — AN AGITATION.
CHAPTER vi. — A MAN OF THE TON.
CHAPTER vii. — A REPROOF.
CHAPTER viii. — A MISTAKE.
CHAPTER ix. — AN EXPLANATION.
PREFACE
“Fanny's Cecilia came out last summer, and is as much liked and read, I believe, as any book ever was,” wrote Charlotte Burney in Jan. 1783. “She had 250 pounds for it from Payne and Cadell. Most people say she ought to have had a thousand. It is now going into the third edition, though Payne owns that they printed two thousand at the first edition, and Lowndes told me five hundred was the common number for a novel.” {Footnote: The Early Diary of Frances Burney, with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals
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