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He had one abroad; but the indisposition of his dom till her health seemed in a situation less precarious That tirew evidently worse He gave over, therefore, his design till the next Spring, when, if she were able, it was her desire to try the South of France for her recovery, whither hehis attendance upon her, the plan he had just reater would be his chance of happiness inCecilia with scarce any fortune at all, than in est He was convinced she was far other than expensive, or a lover of shew, and soon flattered hiht be prevailed upon to concur with hih comparatively upon little, they shouldasunder upon much

When he started this scheled adret at its occasion: yet the loftiness of her own h personal value for Cecilia, her anxiety to see her son finally settled while she lived, lest his disappointust, joined to a dejection of spirits from an apprehension that her interference had been cruel, all favoured his scheme, and forbid her resistance She had often protested, in their former conflicts, that had Cecilia been portionless, her objections had been less than to an estate so conditioned; and that to give to her son a woman so exalted in herself, she would have conquered the h that of family honour she held invincible Delvile now called upon her to remember those words, and ever strict in fidelity, she still proht Cecilia, is virtue, then, as inconsistent as vice? and can the sah-souled, thus nobly disinterested with regard to riches, whose pride is so narrow and so insurmountable, with respect to family prejudice!

Yet such a sacrifice from Cecilia herself, whose income intitled her to settleht scarcely to be solicited; but as her son was conscious he gave up in expectation no less than she would give up in possession, he resolved uponthe experiment, and felt an internal assurance of success

Thisfinally settled with histhe father, by whom, and before whom the name of Cecilia was never h loaded with iainst her Mr Delvile held it a diminution of his own in the honour of his son, to suppose he wanted still freshher He kept, therefore, to hiht down, as a resource in case of danger, but a resource he disdained to make use of, unless driven to it by absolute necessity