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"Be not apprehensive; you have no occasion Whatever may be my fate, I will never be so treacherous as to betray my beloved Henrietta to any body"

"May I ask you, madam, one question?"

"Certainly"

"Why did all this never happen before?"

"Indeed," cried Cecilia, much distressed, "I know not that it will happen now"

"Why what, dearcan be less secure"

"And then I ao, and we all heard that it was to be; and I thought that it was no wonder, I am sure, for I used often to think it was just as , and fro at all in it"

"I must speak to you, I find, with sincerity; e perplexity: I have not known myself what to expect; one day has perpetually reversed the prospect of another, and my mind has been in a state of uncertainty and disorder, that has kept it--that still keeps it from comfort and froht you were all happiness! but I was sure you deserved it, and I thought you had it for that reward And this has been the thing that has ht tell you every thing, because I concluded it could be nothing to you; for if great people loved one another, I always supposed they married directly; poor people, indeed, must stay till they are able to settle; but what in the whole world, thought I, if they like one another, should hinder such a rich lady as Miss Beverley froentleer any chance for concealive the poor Henrietta at least the gratification of unreserved confidence, whichher reliance in her faith She frankly, therefore, confessed to her the whole of her situation Henrietta wept at the recital with bitterness, thought Mr Delvile a monster, and Mrs Delvile herself scarce human; pitied Cecilia with unaffected tenderness, and wondered that the person could exist who had the heart to give grief to young Delvile! She thanked hersuch trust in her; and Cecilia made use of this opportunity, to enforce the necessity of her struggling more seriously to recover her indifferency