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Dr Lyster desired only that those who had already attendedup to his entreaties the accusto for them, he went to Cecilia
Delvile did not dare accompany him; and so as he acquainted with his plainness and sincerity, that though he expected his return with eagerness, he no sooner heard hi to know his opinion, he hastily snatched up his hat, and rushed vehemently out of the house to avoid him
He continued to walk about the streets, till even the dread of ill neas less horrible to him than this voluntary suspense, and then he returned to the house
He found Dr Lyster in a s she should noell paid, had appropriated for Delvile's use
Delvile, putting his hand upon the Doctor's shoulder, said, "Well, my dear Dr Lyster, you, still, I hope"-"I would I could make you easy!" interrupted the Doctor; "yet, if you are rational, one coive you; the crisis see, and either she will recover, or before to-led rage and horror, "I will not have her days liive ain he flew out of the house, leaving Dr Lyster unaffectedly concerned for him, and too kind-hearted and too wise to be offended at the injustice of immoderate sorrow
In a few minutes, however, frorew ize for his behaviour He received his hearty forgiveness, and prevailed upon him to continue in town till the whole was decided
About noon, Cecilia, froitation, sunk suddenly into a state of such utter insensibility, that she appeared unconscious even of her existence; and but that she breathed, shedead
When Delvile heard this, he could no longer endure even his post upon the stairs; he spent his whole ti in Dr Lyster's parlour to enquire if all was over
That huer of Cecilia, than grieved at the situation of Delvile, thought the present fearful crisis at least offered an opportunity of reconciling hientleerous state of Cecilia, and the ladly, to have annulled an alliance he held disgraceful to his faence that Cecilia was no s to which his own refusal of an asyluhty struggle between tenderness and wrath, he begged the advice of Dr Lyster how his son ht be drawn from such a scene