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"Poor distracted creature!" exclais I have felt, but thy innocence I have forfeited!--my oounds bleed afresh,-- up, "Good woman," he added, "kindly attend her,--I will seek out her friends, put her into bed, coain, and as soon as I can"

He then hurried away

"Oh hour of joy!" cried Cecilia, "he is gone to rescue hihter!"

The wo the orders she had received; she was put into bed, and nothing was neglected, as far as she had power and thought, to give a look of decency and attention to her accommodations

He had not left them an hour, when Mary, the maid who had attended her from Suffolk, ca over the town in search of soined she was known, had hastened to that of Mrs Hill the first of any, as he ell acquainted with her obligations to Cecilia; there, Mary herself, by the directions which her lady had given Mrs Belfield, had gone; and there, in the utmost astonishht news of her

She was surprised and afflicted beyond measure, not only at the state of her mind, and her health, but to find her in a bed and an apartment so unsuitable to her rank of life, and so different to what she had ever been accustomed She wept bitterly while she enquired at the bed- side how her lady did, but wept stillto know her, Cecilia started up, and called out, "I o to St Ja-bell will toll, and then how shall I be in time for the funeral?"

Mary, alarmed and amazed, turned hastily from her to the woman of the house, who cal fit, and ence, she entreated her to be quiet and lie still But Cecilia grew suddenly so violent, that force only could keep her fro; and Mary, unused to dispute her commands, prepared to obey them

Mrs Wyers now in her turn opposed in vain; Cecilia was pereh not withouthabit This operation over, she iving, her a hardiness that coue, and feebleness Mary, however averse and fearful, assisted her, and Mrs Wyers, compelled by the obedience of her own servant, went before them to order a chair