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Froy of sadness Cecilia was soon, however, awakened by the return of the surgeon, who had brought with him a physician to consult upon Mrs Delvile's situation Terror for the hts, and she waited with the most apprehensive impatience to hear the result of the consultation The physician declined giving any positive opinion, but, having written a prescription, only repeated the injunction of the surgeon, that she should be kept extremely quiet, and on no account be suffered to talk
Cecilia, though shocked and frightened at the occasion, was yet by no means sorry at an order which thus precluded all conversation; unfitted for it by her own lad to be relieved fro upon herself the irkso subjects for discourse to which she holly indifferent, while obliged with sedulity to avoid those by which alone her mind was occupied
The worthy Mrs Charlton heard the events of the hters to assist her young friend in doing the honours of her house to Mrs Delvile, while she ordered another apartment to be prepared for Cecilia, to whom she adest
Cecilia, however unhappy, had too just a way of thinking to indulge in selfish grief, where occasion called her to action for the benefit of others: scarce a moment, therefore now did she allow to sorrow and herself, but assiduously bestowed the whole of her ti to their own desire or convenience, without consulting or regarding any choice of her own Choice, indeed, she had none; she loved Mrs Charlton, she revered Mrs Delvile; the warloas the recovery of both, but too deep was her affliction to receive pleasure fro which the constancy of her attendance, which at another tiued her, proved the only relief she was capable of receiving Mrs Delvile was evidently affected by her vigilant tenderness, but seemed equally desirous with herself to make use of the prohibition to speech as an excuse for uninterrupted silence She enquired not even after her son, though the eagerness of her look towards the door whenever it was opened, shewed either a hope, or an apprehension that he one, but dreaded trusting her voice with his name; and their silence, after a while, seemed so e as she had inclination to break it