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"Speak not to ; "your friends will not listen to them, neither, therefore, y, "are henceforth out of the question: my father's concurrence with a proposal he knew you had not power to grant, was in fact a es, he had given any authority for your losses, I had myself spared you the shock you have so undeservedly received fro it--But to consent to a plan which could not be accepted!-- to nity to Miss Beverley!--He has released me from his power by so erroneous an exertion of it, and ive place That honour binds me to Miss Beverley as forcibly as my admiration, and no voice but her own shall determine ain refers you to your mother Mr Delvile, indeed, has not treated me kindly; and this last mock concession was unnecessary cruelty; but Mrs Delvilewhich has not her previous sanction"

"But will her sanction be sufficient? andit, the security of yours?"

"When I have said I will hear nothing without it,with it!"

The acknowledgments he would now have poured forth, Cecilia would not hear, telling hiaiety, they were yet unauthorized by Mrs Delvile She insisted upon his leaving her i, without his ard to his father, she left him totally to his own inclination; she had received fro but pride and incivility, and determined to skew publicly her superior respect for Mrs Delvile, by whose discretion and decision she was content to abide

"Will you not, then, from time to time," cried Delvile, "suffer me to consult with you?"

"No, no," answered she, "do not ask it! I have never been insincere with you, never but from motives not to be overcome, reserved even for ainto the power of Mrs Delvile, but I will not a second tiratefully acknowledged her goodness, and pro leave, eager hi only that her good wishes ht follow his enterprise