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"It will be strange indeed," said Cecilia, "should a reconciliation now be difficult!"

"True; but it is long since he was young himself, and the softer affections he never was acquainted with, and only regards theatory to his whole race However, if there were not sodorand-father I am not, I must own, of his huer, than peculiarly worse than most other peoples; and how, for example, was that of your uncle a whit the better? He was just as fond of his name, as if, like Mr Delvile, he could trace it froly felt the truth of this observation, but not chusing to discuss it, ood- natured apologies, both for his friends the Delviles and himself, went up stairs

"What continual disturbance," cried she, when left alone, "keeps me thus for-ever from rest! no sooner is one wound closed, but another is opened; mortification constantly succeeds distress, and when my heart is spared; my pride is attacked, that not a moment of tranquility may ever be allowed me! Had the lowest of women won the affections of Mr Delvile, could his father with less delicacy or less decency have acquainted her with his inflexible disapprobation? To send with so little ceree so contemptuous and so peremptory!--but perhaps it is better, for had he, too, like Mrs Delvile, joined kindness with rejection, I ht still more keenly have felt the perverseness of my destiny"