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"That you wholly give me up?" interrupted Delvile, "is that what you would say?--Oh how have I offended you? how have I merited a displeasure that can draw upon me such a sentence?--Answer, speak to , Sir," said Cecilia, confounded at this language in the presence of his ,--but yet--"

"Yet what?--have you conceived to me an aversion? has any dreadful and horrible antipathy succeeded to your esteeuise, do you hate, do you abhor hed, and turned away her head; and Mrs Delvile indignantly exclaimed, "What madness and absurdity! I scarce know you under the influence of such irrational violence Why will you interrupt Miss Beverley in the only speech you ought to hear from her? Why, at once, oppress her, and irritate irl, finish what so wisely, so judiciously you were beginning, and then you shall be released froo on!" cried Delvile, "if she does not utterly abhor o on;--Pardon, pardonnot only my happiness, but your own Once more, therefore, I conjure you to hear me, and then if, deliberately and unbiassed, you renounceyour decree"

Cecilia, abashed and changing colour, was silent, and he proceeded

"All that has past between us, the vows I have offered you of faith, constancy and affection, the consent I obtained froally h honour you conferred uponme to lead you to the altar,--all these particulars are already known to so many, that the least reflection must convince you they will soon be concealed from none: tell me, then, if your own fame pleads not foranother direction, will not, with e, nay enjoin you to accept me!--You hesitate at least,--O Miss Beverley!--I see in that hesitation--"

"Nothing, nothing!" cried she, hastily, and checking her rising irresolution; "there is nothing for you to see, but that every way I now turn I have rendered myself miserable!"

"Mortimer," said Mrs Delvile, seized with terror as she penetrated into theof Cecilia, "you have now spoken to Miss Beverley; and unwilling as I am to obtrude upon her our difference of sentiment, it is necessary, since she has heard you, that I, also, should claim her attention"