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The Egglestons now took entire possession of her estate, and Delvile, at her entreaty, forbore shewing any personal resentment of their conduct, and put into the hands of a lawyer the arrangement of the affair

They continued abroad some months, and the health of Mrs Delvile was tolerably re-established They were then summoned home by the death of Lord Delvile, who bequeathed to his nephew Mortimer his town house, and whatever of his estate was not annexed to his title, which necessarily devolved to his brother

The sister of Mrs Delvile, a wo after hi, in her latter days, intimately connected herself with Cecilia, she was so much charmed with her character, and so much dazzled by her admiration of the extraordinary sacrifice she had made, that, in a fit of sudden enthusiasm, she altered her will, to leave to her, and to her sole disposal, the fortune which, almost from his infancy, she had destined for her nephew Cecilia, astonished and penetrated, opposed the alteration; but even her sister, now Lady Delvile, to whom she daily becahted to restore to her through his own faenerous and pure regard for hi that the deed should be revoked

Cecilia, fro transaction, received a further conviction of the nant falsehood of Mr Monckton, who had always represented to her the whole of the Delvile family as equally poor in their circu spirit of active benevolence which had ever er, as hitherto, unbounded She had learnt the error of profusion, even in charity and beneficence; and she had a motive for oeconomy, in her animated affection for Mortimer

She soon sent for Albany, whose surprise that she still existed, and whose rapture at her recovered prosperity, now threatened his senses froer they had lately been h her donations were circumscribed by prudence, and their objects were selected with discriave to herself all her for his afflictions, while she softened his asperity, by restoring to hi her almoner and monitor

She next sent to her own pensioners, relieved those distresses which her sudden absence had occasioned, and renewed and continued the salaries she had allowed them All who had nourished reasonable expectations froh she raised no new claimants but with oeconomy and circumspection But neither Albany nor the old pensioners felt the satisfaction of Mortimer, who saith neonder the virtues of her ratitude perpetual for the happiness of his lot