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The behaviour of young Delvile had pained, pleased, and disturbed her; his activity to save her froood nature; upon that, therefore, she dwelt little: but his eagerness, his anxiety, his insensibility to hi could clai from a motive less artificial

She now, therefore, believed that her partiality was returned; and this belief had power to shake all her resolves, and enfeeble all her objections The arrogance of Mr Delvile lessened in her reflections, the admonitions of Mr Monckton abated in their influence With the first she considered that though connected she need not live, and for the second, though she acknowledged the excellence of his judgnorant of her sentiined, when once revealed, would , when put in competition with mutual esteem and affection