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"This lady," cried Morti to becoer that such contempt ratefully at hi conte lady!" said Dr Lyster, "the first of blessings indeed is yours in the tean your career in life, you appeared to us short-sighted s of this world; such a union of riches, beauty, independence, talents, education and virtue, seeeneral envy and discontent; but ood and bad is ever balanced! You have had a thousand sorrows to which those who have looked up to you have been strangers, and for which not all the advantages you possess have been equivalent There is evidently throughout this world, in things as well as persons, a levelling principle, at ith pre-eminence, and destructive of perfection"

"Ah!" cried Mortiher must we all rise, or howprinciple will approxith and spirits by returning to her own apartment, and the conversation was broken up

"Pray per leave, "to beg that the first guest you invite to Delvile Castle may be me You know my partiality to it already I shall be particularly happy in waiting upon you in teether, you know, very sociably; and I sha'n't be much in your way, for if there should happen to be a storreat tree, and while you aence ofalone, you know,--especially in thunder and lightning!"

She then ran away; and they all separated: Cecilia was conveyed up stairs, and the worthy Dr Lyster, loaded with acknowledgments of every kind, set out for the country

Cecilia, still weak, and much emaciated, for sorateful and solicitous attendance of Mortimer, alleviated the pain both of her illness and confine, he hastened with her abroad

Here tranquility oncetorn with anguish, suspense and horrour! Mrs Delvile received her with the radually wore away, from her kind and hted tenderness of her son