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Nor was this all she had to suffer; the news of her intention to quit the county was now reported throughout the neighbourhood, and had spread the uteneral, and the lower close of her own tenants in particular, and the road was soon lined o They followed her carriage with supplications that she would return to thes with their lamentations, and prayers for her happiness with the bitterest repinings at their own loss!

Cecilia was extremely affected; her liberal and ever-ready hand was every other instant involuntarily seeking her purse, which her many immediate expences, made her prudence as often check: and now first she felt the capital error she had co constantly to the uth so able to have done it, against any unfortunate contingency

When she escaped, at last, froer this painful tribute to her benevolence, she gave orders to her man to ride forward and stop at the Grove, that a precise and ht be the last, as it was now become the most important, news she should hear in Suffolk This he did, when to her equal surprise and delight, she heard that he was suddenly so ence so joyful ; yet she hesitated not in her plan of going abroad, as she knew not where to be in England, and could not endure to hurry Delvile fro him with her helpless and distressed situation But so revived were her spirits by these unexpected tidings, that a gleahtest hope once orated with fresh courage and new strength, sufficient to support her through all hardships and fatigues

Spirits and courage were indeed much wanted for the enterprize she had for never been out of England, she knew nothing of the route but by a general knowledge of geography, which, though it could guide her east or west, could teach her nothing of foreign customs, the preparations necessary for the journey, the iers to which she h which she had to pass

Conscious of these deficiencies for such an undertaking, she deliberated without intermission how to obviate the from her youth and sex were added, she was upon the point of relinquishing her sche to continue privately in London till soe happened in her affairs