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Cecilia, char further enquiries into what had passed, when Mrs Hill, in a low voice, said, "There's the gentleave hi me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would"

Cecilia then looked--and perceived young Delvile! who, after stopping a moment at the door, caloves, which, as, were laid in the

Extrean now al her acquaintance with hi, when she had any reason to wish avoiding him

As soon as he saas observed by her, he boith the ut the salutation, and prepared, with no little vexation, for another attack, and further [raillery], similar to what she had already received from him: but, as soon as he had ain, and, without speaking, left the shop

A silence so unexpected at once astonished and disturbed her; she again desired to hear all that had passed at Mr Rupil's, and froathered that Delvile had himself undertaken to be responsible for his attendance upon Mr Belfield

A liberality so like her own failed not to impress her with the ment than lessen the pain hich she considered the clandestine appearance she thus repeatedly made to him She had no doubt he had immediately concluded she was author of the application to the surgeon, and that he followed her er merely to ascertain the fact; while his silence when he had made the discovery, she could only attribute to his now believing that her regard for Mr Belfield was too serious for raillery

Doubly, however, she rejoiced at the generosity of Mr Rupil, as it rendered wholly unnecessary her further interference: for she noith soer to which benevolence itself, directed towards a youthful object, ht expose her