The Dean also arranges for her to have three guardians and trustees: Mr. The Dean, however, has attached a requirement to his legacy: when she marries, Cecilia must keep the Beverley name and her husband must change his name to Beverley. Cecilia Beverley is a country heiress, although still a minor, who is destined for money, standing to inherit when she comes of age 10000 pounds in her own right and, from her uncle the Dean, an estate worth 3000 pounds a year. Summary: Cecilia satirizes a society obsessed with Money and Family Name, which are treated as more important than intelligence, virtue, noble title, or usefulness to society. 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. “Peace to the spirits of my honoured parents, respected be their remains, and immortalized their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relicks 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 be solaced in death, that by her it was unsullied!”
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