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"And could you bring him to consent to no compromise before you left hiot to hiood heaven!--and do you know the event?"

"I called again this s, but he was not returned home"

"And was it impossible to follow hione?"

"None; to elude all pursuit, he went out before any body in the house was stirring, and took his servant with him"

"Have you, then, been to Sir Robert?"

"I have been to Cavendish-Square, but there, it seeh his servants, frohouse, where I found he had a"

The uneasiness of Cecilia now encreased everyhe had no other chance of satisfying her, offered his service to go again in search of both the gentle her better inforratitude, and he departed

Soon after she was joined by Mr Arnott, who, though seized with all the horrors of jealousy at sight of her apprehensions, was so desirous to relieve the her, he almost instantly set out upon the same errand that en till he found whether it would enable hione when she was told that Mr Delvile begged to have the honour of speaking to her Surprised at this condescension, she desired he uardian, she again beheld her masquerade friend, the white domino

He entreated her pardon for an intrusion neither authorised by acquaintance nor by business, though somewhat, he hoped, palliated, by his near connection with one as privileged to take an interest in her affairs: and then, hastening to the motives which had occasioned his visit, "when I had the honour," he said, "of seeing you last night at the Opera-house, the dispute which had just happened between two gentleive you an uneasiness which could not but be painful to all who observed it, and as aive, I hope, ence that nothing fatal has happened, or is likely to happen"

"You do me, sir," said Cecilia, "much honour; and indeed you relieve reeable The acco?"