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Nor was this friendly exertion any longer a hardship to her; the sudden res and affairs, of distress and expectation, had now so htened her heart, that she could spare without repining, so friend

But an incident happened two s after which called back, and most unpleasantly, her attention to herself She was told that Mrs Matt, the poor woed an audience, and upon sending for her up stairs, and desiring to knohat she could do for her, "Nothing, madam, just now," she answered, "for I don't come upon my own business, but to tell some news to you, , that was to be, and I'm sure I never opened my mouth about it from that time to this; but I have found out who it was put a stop to it, and so I coerly desired her to go on

"Why, ht yet, but I can tell you where she lives, for I knew her as soon as I set eyes on her, when I see her at church last Sunday, and I would have followed her hoh; but I asked one of the footreat house at the Grove: and perhaps, madam, you may knohere that is: and then he told me her name, but that I can't just now think of"

"Good heaven!" cried Cecilia,--"it could not be Bennet?"

"Yes, ain now I hear it"

Cecilia then hastily dis her not to mention the circumstance to any body

Shocked and dismayed, she no, but saith horror, the removal of all her doubts, and the explanation of all her difficulties, in the full and irrefragable discovery of the perfidy of her oldest friend and confident

Miss Bennet herself she regarded in the affair as a h in effect it did the work, was innocent of its mischief, because powerless but in the hand of its employer

"That employer," cried she, " I have knoho so willingly has been rity I have confided, upon whose friendship I have relied! uide in all perplexities!--Mr Monckton thus dishonourably, thus barbarously to betray ainst ard for me! and make use of my own trust to furnish the means to injure ed her with Mr Delvile; she could not have two enely could dissolve a union at the very altar, could alone have the baseness to calumniate her so cruelly