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"I took her to a house in the country, each of us silent the whole way I gave her an apartment and a female attendant, and ordered for her every convenience I could suggest I stayed myself in the sauilt and ruin into which I had terrified her, I could not bear her sight

"In a few days her maid assured me the life she ledbut bread and water, never spoke, and never slept

"Alarmed by this account, I flew into her apartave way to pity and fondness, and I besought her to take comfort I spoke, however, to a statue, she replied not, nor seemed to hear me I then humbled myself to her as in the days of her innocence and first power, supplicating her notice, entreating even her commiseration! all was to no purpose; she neither received nor repulsed me, and was alike inattentive to exhortation and to prayer

"Whole hours did I spend at her feet, vowing never to arise till she spoke to me,--all, all, in vain! she seemed deaf, mute, insensible; her face unmoved, a settled despair fixed in her eyes,--those eyes that had never looked at me but with dove-like softness and coed her dress, no persuasions could prevail with her to lie down, and at ht save her fro for want of food

"What was the distraction of my soul, to find her bent upon this course to her last hour!--quick caone, but eternally it will be reed she hadthe house, to live speechless and motionless, as a pennance for her offences!

"I kept her loved corpse till my own senses failed me,--it was then only torn from me,--and I have lost all recollection of three years of my existence!"

Cecilia shuddered at this hint, yet was not surprised by it; Mr Gosport had acquainted her he had been fore, and extraordinary way of life, bad long led her to suspect his reason had been impaired

"The scene to whichher grave; soleh not by one of equal severity To her poor ree myself, that the day should never pass in which I would receive nourishht come in which I would take rest, till I had done, or zealously attempted to do, some service to a fellow-creature