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Delvile, as i the house, only waited till they were out of sight, to present himself at the door He was shewn into a parlour, where she instantly attended hileton, and Mrs Delvile's woave him her hand in silence, and he led her to the chair

The calmness of stifled hope had now taken place in Cecilia of quick sensations and alarm Occupied with a firm belief she should never be the wife of Delvile, she only waited, with a desperate sort of patience, to see when and by whom she was next to be parted from him

When they arrived near the church, Delvile stopt the chair He handed Cecilia out of it, and discharging the chairmen, conducted her into the church He was surprised hi it to last, took care not to say to her a word that should ave her, as before, to Mr Singleton, secretly praying that not, as before, she iven hiyman was ready, and they all proceeded to the altar

The cereun; Cecilia, ratherto listen to it but at the words, If any man can shew any just cause why they ether, Delvile hiain answer it, and Cecilia, with a sort of steady dismay in her countenance, cast her eyes round the church, with noother view than that of seeing from what comer the prohibiter would start

She looked, however, to no purpose; no prohibiter appeared, the ceremony was performed without any interruption, and she received the thanks of Delvile, and the congratulations of the little set, before the idea which had so strongly pre-occupied her iination, was sufficiently removed from it to satisfy her she was really married

They then went to the vestry, where their business was not long; and Delvile again put Cecilia into a chair, which again he accoh still attended with strangeness and a sensation of incredulity But the sight of Delvile at her lodgings, contrary to their agreement, wholly recovered her senses from the stupor which had dulled thehly she had obliged him, to see her himself restored to the aniive her afro the return of her servants, he quitted her, and set out for Delvile Castle