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Cecilia now felt uneasy and alared him to explain hiun the discourse, and after a grave, yet gentle preparation, expressive of his unwillingness to distress her, and his firm persuasion of her uncoer to her situation with respect to the Delvile fa and much amazed; "and who"--"I knew it," said he, "from the moment I attended Mr Mortimer in his illness at Delvile Castle He could not conceal from me that the seat of his disorder was histhe cause, when I saas his father's guest, and when I kneas his father's character He found he was betrayed toa journey, he understood me properly His openness to counsel, and theyou, er was blown over But last week, when I was at the Castle, where I have for soout, I found hiitation of spirits that made me apprehend it would be thrown into his stomach I desired Mrs Delvile to use her influence to calreater eed to leave him, desired I would spend with him every moment inher absence, and, in the course of our ed to me the uneasiness under which he has laboured, fro his son, which he had just received"

Cecilia wished here to enquire how received, and froe, and therefore he proceeded

"I was still with the father when Mr Mortimer arrived post at my house to fetch me hither I was sent for houise, for he kneell acquainted with the original secret whence all the evil arose I told him my distress in what manner to leave his father; and he was extrereed that it would be vain to conceal from him the indisposition of Mrs Delvile, which the delay of her return, and a thousand other accidents, ht in some unfortunate way make known to him He coht consent to my journey, and at the sa him all he had apprehended holly at an end"