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"Your eyes," cried he, "are red, your voice is inarticulate;--young, rich, and attractive, the world at your feet; that world yet untried, and its falsehood unknown, how have you thus found means to anticipate misery? which way have you uncovered the cauldron of human woes? Fatal and early anticipation! that cover once re woes, will pour out upon you continually, and only when your heart ceases to beat, will their ebullition cease to torture you!"

"Alas!" cried Cecilia, shuddering, "how cruel, yet how true!"

"Why went you," cried he, "to the cauldron? it came not to you Misery seeks not man, but man misery He walks out in the sun, but stops not for a cloud; confident, he pursues his way, till the storht have avoided, bursts over his devoted head Scared and amazed, he repents his temerity; he calls, but it is then too late; he runs, but it is thunder which follows hiance and shallowness of his nature! And thou, simple and blind! hast thou, too, follohither Fancy has led thee, unheeding that thy career was too vehe that lovely companion of youth's early innocence, till, adventurous and unthinking, thou hast lost her for ever!"

In the present weak state of Cecilia's spirits, this attack was too much for her; and the tears she had just, and with difficulty restrained, again forced their way down her cheeks, as she answered, "It is but too true,--I have lost her for ever!"

"Poor thing," said he, while the rigour of his countenance was softened into the gentlest co, too, so innocent-- 'tis hard!--And is nothing left thee? no s hope, to cheat, huuished credulity?"

Cecilia ithout answering

"Let ; compassion is with me no effusion of affectation; tell inary, and thy grief is factitious?"

"Factitious," repeated she, "Good heaven!"

"Answer me, then, these questions, in which I shall comprise the only calamities for which sorrow has no controul, or none from human motives Tell me, then, have you lost by death the friend of your bosoance, and your power of relieving the distressed at an end?"

"No; the power and the will are I hope equally undiuilty of sos remorse thus heavy on your conscience?"