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As not a ested this scheme, than she hastened to St James's-Square, to try its practicability

She found Mrs Delvile alone, and still at breakfast

After the first co in what manner to introduce her proposal, Mrs Delvile herself led to the subject, by saying, "I am very sorry to hear we are so soon to lose you; but I hope Mr Harrel does not intend tostay at his villa; for if he does, I shall be half tempted to come and run aith you frohted with this opening, "would be an honour I amLondon at this time," continued Mrs Delvile, "is, for me, particularly unfortunate, as, if I could now be favoured with your visits, I should doubly value theone to spend the holidays at the Duke of Derwent's, whither I was not well enough to accoements, and there are so few people I can bear to see, that I shall live almost entirely alone"

"If I," cried Cecilia, "in such a situation ladly for that happiness would I exchange ood, and very aive me infinite satisfaction Yet I am no enemy to solitude; on the contrary, company is coive me entertainment, and even of those few, the chief part have in their , that generally renders a near connection with thereeable There are, indeed, so ard and intimacy, from pride, from propriety, and various other collateral causes, that rarely as we meet with people of brilliant parts, there is alain Yet to live wholly alone is chearless and depressing; and with you, at least," taking Cecilia's hand, "I find not one single obstacle to oppose to a thousand inducements, which invite , as I am sure it will be pleasant"

Cecilia expressed her sense of this partiality in the war by her ht in her intended visit to Violet Bank, began next to question her whether it would be possible for her to give it up