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"Why it is but common prudence," answered Delvile, "to feel our way a little before we mention e most wish, and so cast the hazard of the refusal upon so rather less important"

"Admirably settled!" cried Mrs Delvile: "so my rest is but to prove Miss Beverley's disturbance!--Well, it is only anticipating our future way of life, when her disturbance, in taking the ement of you to herself, will of course prove my rest"

She then quietly reposed herself, and Delvile discoursed with Cecilia upon their future plans, hopes and actions

He meant to set off from the church-door to Delvile Castle, to acquaint his father with his e, and then to return instantly to London: there he entreated Cecilia to stay with his ht not exhaust her patience, byvisit occasion another journey to Suffolk

But here Cecilia resolutely opposed hi instantly to her own house; and representing so earnestly her desire that their land, upon a thousand motives of delicacy, propriety, and fearfulness, that the obligation he owed already to a corew ratitude and pity fro him in Suffolk; which could but delay his mother's journey, and expose her to unnecessary suspicions; she promised, however, to write to him often, and as, from his mother's weakness, he aged that he should find a letter froreat town

The bond which he had already had altered, he insisted upon leaving in her own custody, averse to applying to Mr Monckton, whose behaviour to hiust, and in whoain applied to the sah to his secrecy he had no tie, he had still less to any entire stranger Mrs Delvile was too ill to attend them to church, nor would Delvile have desired froave another sigh to her departed friend Mrs Charlton, whose presence upon this awful occasion would else again have soothed and supported her She had no fenance invincible to being accompanied only by men, she accepted the attendance of Mrs Delvile's ooh in the favour and confidence of her lady