Cecilia, Volume 2 (of 3)

re, whither she went in the utmost anxiety, from her uncer

vile were at breakfast, and that the Duke of

arty to send for Mrs Delvile, would, by her stately guardian, be deemed an indecorum unpardonable. She wa

d! My sister believed she should see you no more, Mr Harrel feared a premature discovery of his purp

l too much occupied to miss me. I have been, indeed, preparing for a removal, but I meant not to leave your sister without bid

as wept without ceasing. Indeed, if she will take no consolation, I believe I s

, "and I know not how, while flying from danger my

atest danger for me is what I

not difficult to see that the destruction which awaits Mr Harrel, is ready also to ensnare his brother-in-law; but let not that blindness to the future which we have so often lamented for him, hereafter be lamented for yourself. Till his present connections are broken, and his

ght, "that you can deign to be interested in what may become of me! and that m

the brother of my earliest friend, I ca

s her brother!-Oh that t

room, "of what I have mentioned, and, for your siste

thing," cried he, "that M

our own judgment; or, should my advice have any weight with you, remember it is given from the most disin

the goodness to hear my situation, a

nce to my opinion. I have seen, however, nothing in your conduct I have ever

rapture should I hear those

You called me back to talk of your sister; if you cha

passed my desert; yet has it never blinded me to my own unworthiness. Do not, then, fear to indulge me with your conversation; I shall draw from it no i

utmost gentleness, said "Mr Arnott, your regard does me honour, and, were it somewhat more rational, would give me pleasure; tak

in having at last told my sufferings. Could I but continue to see you every day, and to be

and moving towards the door, "infringing the cond

ocks, as well as a considerable sum in a banker's hands, I have parted with, as I now find for ever but I have no heart for refusal, nor would my sister at this moment be thus distressed, but that I have nothing mor

arned him, and have not the clamours of his creditors assailed him? yet what has been the consequence? he has not submitted to the smallest change in his way of life, he has not denied himself a single indulgence, nor spared any expence, nor thought of any reformation. Luxury has foll

ted with your opinion, I will wholly new model myself upon it, and

l, and indeed it is high time you should quit this scene; yet I hope you intend not to go

a, "for I mean to be gone wi

s your deserting his house at this critical time, will raise a suspicion of hi

, however, be the voluntary instrument of his disgrace; and if you think my st

lia, happy in making it to him instead of Mr Harrel, then went

s Delvile, St

SQUARE,

any part of it. Do not, however, think me now ungrateful if I stay away, nor to-morrow impertinent, if I venture to enquire whether that apartment which you had once the goodness to appropriate to my use, may then again be spared for me! The accidents which have p

of Mr Arnott made her fear, in the present perilous situat

er was returned he

erley, Port

d difficulty insurmountable in trying to lament them, if they are productive of a leng

hter prospects, flattering herself that once under the roof of Mrs Delvile, she must