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Her first effort, in this work of mental reformation, was to part with Fidel, whouarded, but whoerous recollections She sent hie; Mrs Delvile, she was sure, would require none to make her rejoice in his restoration

Her next step riting to Albany, who had given her his direction, to acquaint hi concerted scheme Albany instantly hastened to her, and joyfully accepted the office of beco at once her Almoner and her Monitor He made it his business to seek objects of distress, and always but too certain to find the her hi to her own liberality the assistance their several cases de of his zeal upon these occasions, and the rapture of his heart in thus disposing, almost at his pleasure, of her noble fortune, he seemed, at times, to feel an extasy that, from its novelty and its excess, was alars in pouring blessings upon her head, he prayed for her with the poor, and he thanked her with the succoured

The pew-opener and her children failed not to keep their appointment, and Cecilia presently contrived to settle thehbourhood: where the poor woot a little work, and all deficiencies in her power of enerous patroness The children, however, she ordered to be coarsely brought up, having no intention to provide for the the made to Mrs Harrel of an apartment in her house, was now perforlad to e in her situation, which constant solitude had rendered wholly insupportable Mr Arnott accompanied her to the house, and spent one day there; but receiving froh extremely civil and sweet to hi his visit, he left it in sadness, and returned to his own in deep dejection Cecilia saith concern how he nourished his hopeless passion, but knew that to suffer his visits would al it; and while she pitied unaffectedly the unhappiness she occasioned, she resolved to double her own efforts towards avoiding similar wretchedness

This action, however, was a point of honour, not of friendship, the ti since past that the society of Mrs Harrel could afford her any pleasure; but the promises she had so often h extorted from her merely by the terrors of the moment, still were promises, and, therefore, she held herself bound to fulfil them