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The gentle to the mob, did not hear her; and the coach frenzy, persisted in detaining her
"I a to France!" cried she, still more wildly, "why do you stop me? he will die if I do not see hian to grow very abusive; but the stranger, touched by coallantry, and Mr Sihtened: she was, however, in no condition to listen to hith hitherto unknown to her, she forcibly disengaged herself from her persecutors; yet her senses holly disordered; she forgot her situation, her intention, and herself; the single idea of Delvile's danger took sole possession of her brain, though all connection with its occasion was lost, and the moment she was released, she fervently clasped her hands, exclai, "I will yet heal his wound, even at the hazard offorward, was alht
Mr Si after her, entered into a coht attend her; but the length of his negociation defeated its purpose, and before he was at liberty to follow her, all trace was lost by which he er he h they led him on some way, they led hied pursuit, he went quietly to his own ho to acquaint Mrs Belfield hat had happened the next
Mean while the frantic Cecilia escaped both pursuit and insult by the velocity of her own motion She called aloud upon Delvile as she flew to the end of the street No Delvile was there!--she turned the corner; yet saw nothing of hi whither, the distraction of her reater, froue, heat, and disappointht once or twice by her riding habit; but she forced herself along by her own vehe as thought Delvile, bleeding by the are before her eyes, and took such full possession of her senses, that still, as she ran on, she fancied it in view She scarce touched the ground; she scarce felt her own liding from place to place, from street to street; with no consciousness of any plan, and following no other direction than that of darting forhere-ever there wasback when she met with any obstruction; till quite spent and exhausted, she abruptly ran into a yet open shop, where, breathless and panting, she sunk upon the floor, and, with a look disconsolate and helpless, sat for so