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This re the connection so long neglected All scruples concerning Delvile had now lost their foundation, since the doubts from which they arose were both explained and removed: she was certain alike of his indifference to Henrietta, and his separation fro was to be feared from painful or offensive rivalry, and she resolved, therefore, to lose no ti the first pleasure to which since her disappointment she had voluntarily looked forward

Early in the evening, she told Lady Margaret she was going out for an hour or two, and sending again for a chair, was carried to Portland- street

She enquired for Miss Belfield, and was shewn into a parlour, where she found her drinking tea with her mother, and Mr Hobson, their landlord

Henrietta alht, fro up to her, flung her arms round her neck, and e back with a look of tiized for her freedo, "Indeed, dearest Miss Beverley, it is no want of respect, but I aet enuously affectionate, soon satisfied her doubting diffidence by the warard for her, and by doubling the kindness hich she returned her caresses

"Mercy onthis ti so her handkerchief and apron, "why the girl's enough to smother you Henny, how can you be so troublesome? I never saw you behave in this way before"

"Miss Beverley, , "is so kind as to pardonher, that I hardly knehat I was about"

"The young ladies,one another till such tiet husbands: and then I'll warrant you they can meet without any salutation at all That's my remark, at least, and what I've seen of the world has setit"

This speech led Cecilia to check, however artless, the tenderness of her fervent young friend, who in such company, but who seeave her expressive of a wish to be alone with her

"Come, ladies," continued the facetious Mr Hobson, "what if ere all to sit down, and have a good dish of tea? and suppose, Mrs Belfield, you was to order us a fresh round of toast and butter? do you think the young ladies here would have any objection? and what if ere to have a littlea little more tea in the teapot What I say is this, let us all be cos"