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"Stop h faintly, "I aer, I shall be unable to supporther; "rest but upon me till the ceremony is over!--you will drive me to despair and to madness if you leave ather, and the words bride and bridegroom reached the ears of Cecilia; who half dead with shame, with fear, and with distress, hastily said "You are deter away her hand, which Delvile at those words could no longer hold, she threw herself into the carriage

Delvile, however, jumped in after her, and with an air of authority ordered the coachlasses, with a look of fierceness at the mob

Cecilia had neither spirits nor power to resist him; yet, offended by his violence, and shocked to be thus publickly pursued by hi than any verbal reproach

"Inhuman Cecilia!" cried he, passionately, "to desert me at the very altar!--to castus!--and then thus to look at me!--to treat me with this disdain at a time of such distraction!--to scorn me thus injuriously at the moment you unjustly abandonfrom her consternation, "have you exposed race!"

"Oh heaven!" cried he with horror, "if any crime, any offence of mine has occasioned this fatal blow, the whole world holds not a wretch so culpable as our! my veneration for you has ever equalled h nity, I should soon abhor myself, as you seem to abhor me But what is it I have done? How have I thus incensed you? By what action, by what guilt, have I incurred this displeasure?

"Whence," cried she, "came that voice which still vibrates in my ear? The prohibition could not be on ht or interest in even wishing it"

"What an inference is this! over me, then, do you conclude this woman had any power?"