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He then bowed, shut the door, and ran off Cecilia, though happy to understand by this speech that he was actually restored to his family, was sorry at these repeated intrusions in the presence of Mr Delvile, as now the only one that re for his chair, which he kept in waiting; but, after a pause of some continuance, to her equal surprise and disturbance, hespeech "As it is probable I am now for the last time alone with you, ma'am, and as it is certain we shall meet no more upon business, I cannot, in justice to my own character, and to the respect I retain for the memory of the Dean, your uncle, take a final leave of the office hich he was pleased to investyou so to your future establishment"

This was not a preface much to enliven Cecilia; it prepared her for such speeches as she was least willing to hear, and gave to her the mixt and painful sensation of spirits depressed, with ride alarements," he continued, "and the appropriation of my time, already settled, to their various claims, must make me brief in what I have to represent, and so to the purpose But that you will excuse"

Cecilia disdained to huance by any compliments or concessions: she was silent, therefore; and when they were both seated, he went on

"You are now at a ti woeness of your fortune will remove from you such difficulties as prove bars to the pretensions, in this expensive age, of those who possess not such advantages It would have been some pleasure to me, while I yet considered you as my Ward, to have seen you properly disposed of: but as that tieneral advice, which youit, I shall satisfy myself; for the rest, I am not responsible"

He paused; but Cecilia felt less and less inclination toin her turn

"Yet though, as I just now hinted, young wo theht not, therefore, to trifle when proper ones are in their power, nor to suppose themselves equal to any they may chance to desire"