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When Cecilia was a little recovered froue of her removal, the anxious Mortimer would instantly have had her conveyed to her own aparte Mr Delvile, she declared she ell able to reood friends," said Dr Lyster, "in the course ofpractice, I have found it i the human mind; and from all that I have yet been able to make out, either by observation, reflection, or comparison, it appears to ot the best wife, and that you, Sir, have here the hter-in-law, that any husband or any father in the three kingdo to his Majesty can either have or desire"

Cecilia shted concurrence; Mr Delvile forced himself to aily exclaimed, "Dr Lyster, when you say the best and the most faultless, you should always add the rest of the co your ladyship's pardon; but there is a certain unguarded warmth comes across a man now and then, that drives etiquette out of his head, and makes him speak truth before he well knohere he is"

"O terrible!" cried she, "this is sinking deeper and deeper I had hoped the town air would have taught you better things; but I find you have visited at Delvile Castle till you are fit for no other place"

"Whoever, Lady Honoria," said Mr Delvile, much offended, "is fit for Delvile Castle, h every other place iddily, "every possible place will be fit for him, if he can once bear with that Don't you think so, Dr Lyster?"

"Why, when a ood-humouredly, "he is apt to think too in to have some hopes of you," cried she, "for I see, for a Doctor, you have really a very pretty notion of a coreat fault still; you look the whole time as if you said it for a joke"

"Why, in fact, madam, when a man has been a plain dealer both in word and look for upwards of fifty years, 'tis expecting too quick a reformation to deive ement, and, with such a tutress, 'twill be hard if I do not, in a very few lessons, learn the righta si"