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I would fain see you ere I go, lest I should see you no more; fain ratify by word of mouth the consent that by word of mouth I so absolutely refused! I know not how to come to Suffolk,--is it not possible you can come to London? I a you to my son, I best shew my sense of such an honour

Hasten then, er a concurrence thus unjustly with-held, but hasten, that I hter I have so often wished to own! that I iveness for all the pain I have occasioned her, and coe the future happiness of my son, fold to my maternal heart the two objects most dear to it!

AUGUSTA DELVILE

Cecilia wept over this letter with tenderness, grief and alarm; but declared, had it even su it, have hesitated in co suspenses end! hear me with the candour; my mother has already listened to me--be mine, my Cecilia, at once,--and force me not, by eternal scruples, to risk another separation"

"Good heaven, Sir!" cried Cecilia, starting, "in such a state as Mrs Delvile thinks herself, would you have her journey delayed?"

"No, not a o with her all over the world!"

"Wild and impossible!--and what is to be done with Mr Delvile?"

"It is on his account wholly I am thus earnestly precipitate If I do not by an ie prevent his further interference, all I have already suffered ain be repeated, and some fresh contest with my mother may occasion another relapse"

Cecilia, who now understood him, ardently protested she would not listen for a ht her to be patient; and then anxiously represented to her their peculiar situations All application to his father he was pere, all efforts to remove his prejudices their ie, therefore, with such obstacles, would al defiance of his prohibition and authority

"Alas!" exclai!"

"Say it not," cried he, "I conjure you! we shall yet live, I hope, to prove the contrary" "And can you, then," cried she, reproachfully, "Oh Mr Delvile! can you again urge me to enter your family in secret?"