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The next , as soon as breakfast was over, Cecilia went in a chair to S-street; she enquired for Miss Belfield, and was told to go up stairs: but as her a out of the roo Delvile!

They both started, and Cecilia, froeness of her situation, felt a confusion hich she had hitherto been unacquainted But Delvile, presently recovering froood is Miss Beverley thus to visit the sick! and howMr Belfield, had I but, by prescience, known her design, and deferred my own enquiries till he had been revived by hers!"

And then, bowing and wishing her goodthe openness and purity of her intentions, was so , and pointed speech, that she had not the presence of mind to call hiatories and railleries which had already passed between them upon the subject of Mr Belfield, made her suppose that what he had formerly suspected he would now think confirmed, and conclude that all her assertions of indifference, proceeded merely from that readiness at hypocrisy upon particular subjects, of which he had openly accused her whole Sex

This circumstance and this apprehension took from her for a while all interest in the errand upon which she caht it back, when, upon going into the room, she saw her new favourite in tears

"What is the matter?" cried she, tenderly; "no new affliction I hope has happened? Your brother is not worse?"

"No,for him"

"For what then? tell me, acquaint me with your sorrows, and assure yourself you tell them to a friend"

"I was crying, ht there was so little! to find I have soht I wasbut unhappiness, and I thought there was nothing else to be had; but yesterday, ht me you, with every promise of nobleness and protection; and to-day, a friend of enerously, that even my brother has listened to hied to him!"

"And have you already known so much sorrow," said Cecilia, "that this little dawn of prosperity should wholly overpower your spirits? Gentle, airl! may the future recompense you for the past, and may Mr Albany's kind wishes be fulfilled in the reciprocation of our comfort and affection!"