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This was, however, only a circumstance of horror to her: she found herself shut up in a place of confinee where she was, and not a hu reason which enabled her to take this view of her own situation, brought also to her mind that in which she had left Delvile;--under all the perturbation of new-kindled jealousy, just calling upon Belfield,--Belfield, tenacious of his honour even more than himself,--to satisfy doubts of which the very e!

"Oh yet, oh yet," cried she, "let , and to-night it must surely have been too late for this work of death!"

She then arose to feel for the door, and succeeded; but it was locked, and no effort she could ony was unspeakable; she called out with violence upon the people of the house, conjured them to set her at liberty, offered any reward for their assistance, and threatened them with a prosecution if detained

Nobody, however, ca all the disturbance she could h awakened by her cries, concluded thes of a mad woman, and listened not to what she said

Her head was by no means in a condition to bear this violence of distress; every pulse was throbbing, every vein see, her reason, so lately returned, could not bear the repetition of such a shock, and fro and understanding, she soon continued the cry from mere veheht; and in the , when the wo with such frenzy, and desperation, that her conscience was perfectly at ease in the treat now firmly satisfied she required the strictest confineet away; talked of Delvile without cessation, said she should be too late to serve him, told the woman she desired but to prevent murder, and repeatedly called out, "Oh beloved of my heart! wait but a moment, and I will snatch thee froer to draw from her whence she came, or who she was, but heard her frantic excla that her h fever, refused all sustenance, and had every syerous malady, she was fully persuaded that her case was that of decided insanity, and had not any notion of temporary or accidental alienation of reason