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Delvile instantly held out his hand to him; "What you assert," he said, "upon your honour, requires no other testiallantry and your probity are equally well known to me; with either, therefore, I am content, and by no means require the intervention of both"

They then parted; and now, his doubts removed, and his punctilio satisfied, he flew to St Jaiveness of Cecilia for the alarm he had occasioned her, and to hear the reason of her sudden journey, and change of measures But when he came there, to find that his father, whom he had concluded was at Delvile Castle, was in the house, while Cecilia had not even enquired for him at the door, --"Oh let me not," he continued, "even to ony of that moment!--where to seek her I knew not, why she was in London I could not divine, for what purpose she had given the postilion a new direction I could form no idea Yet it appeared that she wished to avoid me, and once more, in the frenzy of my disappointain, therefore, I sought him,--at his own house,--at the coffee-house where I had left hi of my search, he ith equal restlessness, from place to place to meet me I rejoice we both failed; a repetition of my enquiries in my then irritable state, must inevitably have provoked the most fatal resentment

"I will not dwell upon the scenes that followed,--s, the distraction of my suspense, the excess of my despair!--even Belfield, the fiery Belfield, when I met with him the next day, was so much touched by , noble young h-souled patience

"And now, Dr Lyster, go to my Cecilia; tell her this tale, and try, for you have skill sufficient, to soften, yet not wound her with s If then she can bear to see er at ith her intellects, to hold out to iveness--Oh, Dr Lyster! preserver of ive to me but that exquisite moment, and every past evil will be for ever obliterated!"

"You must be calmer, Sir," said the Doctor, "before I hty well for sound health, and strong nerves, but they will not do for an invalide"