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Thus decided, at length, in her plan, she proceeded to put it in execution with cal herself that the conveniencies and indulgencies hich she was now parting, would soon be restored to her, and though not with equal poith farthe nextto London, bid hie all her servants, deterleston, which he had ht it most prudent and safe to leave him wholly to Delvile

She then packed up all her papers and letters, and ordered her maid to pack up her clothes

She next put her own seal upon her cabinets, draws, and s, and e complete inventories of what every room contained

She advised Mrs Harrel to send without delay for Mr Arnott, and return to his house She had first purposed to carry Henrietta home to her mother herself; but another scheme for her now occurred, froe to the airl

She kneell, that deep as was at present her despondency, the ree of Delvile'sfrom the delusive visions of her romantic fancy; Mr Arnott hie of the same event would probably be productive of the saan to repine at the solitude to which she was returning, Cecilia proposed to her the society of Henrietta, which, glad to catch at any thing that would break into her loneliness, she listened to with pleasure, and seconded by an invitation

Henrietta, to whom all houses appeared preferable to her own ho to Cecilia the coe of her abode to Mrs Belfield

Cecilia, who in the known and tried honour of Mr Arnott would unreluctantly have trusted a sister, was eood ensue, no evil, at least, was probable But she hoped, through the ht inspire, that their minds, already not dissimilar, would be softened in favour of each other, and that, in conclusion, each ive, and a union would take place, in which their reciprocal disappointotten

There was not, indeed, much promise of such an event in the countenance of Mr Arnott, when, late at night, he came for his sister, nor in the unbounded sorrow of Henrietta, when thearrived Mr Arnott looked half dead with the shock his sister's intelligence had given him, and Henrietta's heart, torn asunder between friendship and love, was scarce able to bear a parting, which froarded as eternal, added to the consciousness it was occasioned by her going to join Delvile for life!