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Grief and horror for as past, apprehension and suspense for as to come, so disordered her whole frame, so confused even her intellects, that when not all the assistance of fancy could persuade her she still heard the footsteps of Delvile, she went to the chair upon which he had been seated, and taking possession of it, sat with her arms crossed, silent, quiet, and erect, alht, yet with a secret idea she was doing soht

Here she continued till Henrietta caht; whose surprise and concern at the strangeness of her look and attitude, once more recovered her But terrified herself at this threatened wandering of her reason, and certain she er to rest, she accepted the affectionate offer of the kind-hearted girl to stay with her, as too rief to sleep any more than herself

She told her not what had passed; that, she kneould be fruitless affliction to her: but she was soothed by her gentleness, and her conversation was so of her ideas

Henrietta herself found no little consolation in her own private sorrows, that she was able to give comfort to her beloved Miss Beverley, from whom she had received favours and kind offices innuht nor day, and in the honest pride of a little power to skew the gratefulness of her heart, she felt a pleasure and self-consequence she had never before experienced