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Cecilia, whose affection and reverence for Mrs Delvile were unfeigned, and who loved in her son this filial enthusias her, and sincerely estee women

"Now, then," cried he, with earnestness, "now is the tienerous admiration of her is put to the test; see what she writes to you;--she has left to me all explanation: but I insisted upon some credential, lest you should believe I only owed her concurrence to a happy dream"

Cecilia in much trepidation took the letter, and hastily run it over

To Miss Beverley

Misery,been busy with us all; much have ed to the clash of different interests, , deeneral perverseness which labours to place happiness in what is with-held Thus do we struggle on till we can struggle no longer; the felicity hich we trifle, at best is but temporary; and before reason and reflection shew its value, sickness and sorrow are commonly become stationary

Be it yours, my love, and my son's, to profit by the experience, while you pity the errors, of the many who illustrate this truth Your mutual partiality has been mutually unfortunate, and must always continue so for the interests of both: but how blind is it to wait, in our own peculiar lots, for that perfection of enjoy in the lot of others! My expectations for my son had "outstepped the h birth, with the fortune of Cecilia, and Cecilia's rare character Alas! a new constellation in the heavens ance, however, has been all for his felicity, dearer to s but his own honour! Let us but save that, and then let wealth, arandeur and pride, since they cannot constitute his happiness, be reer play the tyrant that, weighing good and evil byby the notions I have for all his own

I leave the kingdom with little reason to expect I shall return to it; I leave it--Oh blindness of vanity and passion!--from the effect of that violence hich so lately I opposed what now I anation to which you have agreed, shews your heart so wholly my son's, and so even more than worthy the whole possession of his, that it reflects upon hi, than any the most illustrious other alliance could now confer