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"I am sorry, master," said Cecilia, "that you are soput to your foot?"

The lance, however, of his eye, which the next instant he fixed upon the ground, startled her; she ain,--and perceived Mr Belfield!

"Good God!" she exclai him still retreat, she recollected in ahio on, turned back to her party, and led the way again into the house

As soon as the first e John had belonged to this cottage, and as his way of life

The woman answered he had only been with them a week, and that he went out to day-labour with her husband

Cecilia then, finding their stay kept hi to save hi seen by Mr Arnott or Mrs Harrel, proposed their returning ho in soman of such talents and abilities; she wished ht be done, when, as they alking froe, a voice at so round, to her utter a to follow her

She instantly stopt, and he advanced, his hat in his hand, and his whole air indicating he sought not to be disguised

Surprised at this sudden change of behaviour, she then stept forward to meet him, accompanied by her friends: but when they ca, to leave him fully at liberty to make himself known, or keep concealed

He boith a look of assued his whole face manifested his internal confusion; and in a voice that atteh its tremulous accents betrayed uneasiness and distress, he exclaimed, with a forced sn to notice a poor miserable day- labourer such as I am? hoill she be justified in the beau ht to fill her with horror? Henceforth let hysterics be blown to the winds, and let nerves be discarded fro and fair can stand this shock without hartshorn or fainting!"

"I aood; yetyou in this strange situation"