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She then left the room: but Cecilia, whose pride had no power to resist this tenderness, ran hastily after her, saying "Shall I not see you again, madam?"

"You shall yourself decide," answered she; "if ive you more pain than pleasure, I ait upon you whenever you please"

Cecilia sighed and paused; she knew not what to desire, yet rather wished any thing to be done, than quietly to sit down to uninterrupted reflection

"Shall I postpone quitting this place," continued Mrs Delvile, "till to-, and will you adain?"

"I should be sorry," said she, still hesitating, "to detain you,"-"You will rejoice ht"

And she then went into her carriage

Cecilia, unfitted to attend her old friend, and unequal to the task of explaining to her the cruel scene in which she had just been engaged, then hastened to her own apartment Her hitherto stifled es: her fate was finally determined, and its deter; she was openly rejected by the family whose alliance she was known to wish; she was coh satisfied his affections were her own A misery so peculiar she found hard to support, and al passions, her heart alternately swelled from offended pride, and sunk from disappointed tenderness