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He answered that he o i into the house

"Let him not know it if you value his life!" cried she, with new terror "Where is Mr Arnott? call hi him to come this moment;--I ait for hi she had ti lest Mr Harrel, by hearing of the arrival of the bailiffs, should relapse into despair, determent she possessed, and, since to act she was compelled, endeavour with her best ability, to save his credit, and retrieve his affairs

The moment Mr Arnott came, she ordered Davison to hasten to hisMr Arnott, "Will you Sir," she said, "go and tell those people that if they will instantly quit the house, every thing shall be settled, and Mr Harrel will satisfy their demands?"

"Ah madam!" cried Mr Arnott, mournfully, "and how? he has no means to pay them, and I have none--without ruin to myself,--to help him!"

"Send them but away," said Cecilia, "and I will raced"

"Alas, ? well as I wish to Mr Harrel, miserable as I aoodness, such beneficence should be injured!"

Cecilia, however, persisted, and with evident reluctance he obeyed her

While she waited his return, Davison came from Mr Harrel, who had ordered hiht Cecilia, that a man so wretchedly selfish and worldly, should dare, with all his guilt upon his head, To rush unlicenced on eternity! [Footnote: Mason's Elfrida] Mr Arnott was more than half an hour with the people; and when, at last, he returned, his countenance immediately proclaimed the ill success of his errand The creditors, he said, declared they had so frequently been deceived, that they would not dismiss the bailiffs, or retire themselves, without actual payment

"Tell them, then, Sir," said Cecilia," to send e them directly"

Mr Arnott's eyes were filled with tears at this declaration, and he protested, be the consequence to hi he orth, rather than witness such injustice

"No," cried Cecilia, exerting ht shock him less, "I did not save Mr Harrel, to destroy so much better a man! you have suffered but too much oppression already; the present evil is mine; and from me, at least, none I hope will ever spread to Mr Arnott"