Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress. Volume 3
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Burney Fanny. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress. Volume 3
BOOK VIII. Continued
CHAPTER ii. – AN EVENT
CHAPTER iii. – A CONSTERNATION
CHAPTER iv. – A PERTURBATION
CHAPTER v. – A COTTAGE
CHAPTER vi. – A CONTEST
CHAPTER vii. – A MESSAGE
CHAPTER vii. – A PARTING
CHAPTER viii. – A TALE
CHAPTER ix. – A SHOCK
BOOK IX
CHAPTER i. – A COGITATION
CHAPTER ii. – A SURPRIZE
CHAPTER iii. – A CONFABULATION
CHAPTER iv. – A WRANGLING
CHAPTER v. – A SUSPICION
CHAPTER vi. – A DISTURBANCE
CHAPTER vii. – A CALM
CHAPTER viii. – AN ALARM
CHAPTER ix. – A SUSPENSE
CHAPTER x. – A RELATION
CHAPTER xi. – AN ENTERPRISE
BOOK X
CHAPTER i
CHAPTER ii. – AN INTERVIEW
CHAPTER iii. – A SUMMONS
CHAPTER iv. – A DELIBERATION
CHAPTER v. – A DECISION
CHAPTER vi. – A PRATING
CHAPTER vii. – A PURSUIT
CHAPTER vii. – AN ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER ix. – A TRIBUTE
CHAPTER x. – A TERMINATION
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Scarce less unhappy in her decision than in her uncertainty, and every way dissatisfied with her situation, her views and herself, Cecilia was still so distressed and uncomfortable, when Delvile called the next morning, that he could not discover what her determination had been, and fearfully enquired his doom with hardly any hope of finding favour.
But Cecilia was above affectation, and a stranger to art. “I would not, Sir,” she said, “keep you an instant in suspense, when I am no longer in suspense myself. I may have appeared trifling, but I have been nothing less, and you would readily exculpate me of caprice, if half the distress of my irresolution was known to you. Even now, when I hesitate no more, my mind is so ill at ease, that I could neither wonder nor be displeased should you hesitate in your turn.”
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Cecilia, struck by these reproaches, turned back; but while she hesitated how to answer them, he went on, “You are insensible to my misery, and impenetrable to my entreaties; a secret enemy has had power to make me odious in your sight, though for her enmity I can assign no cause, though even her existence was this morning unknown to me! Ever ready to abandon, and most willing to condemn me, you have more confidence in a vague conjecture, than in all you have observed of the whole tenour of my character. Without knowing why, you are disposed to believe me criminal, without deigning to say wherefore, you are eager to banish me your presence. Yet scarce could a consciousness of guilt itself, wound me so forcibly, so keenly, as your suspecting I am guilty!”
“Again, then,” cried Cecilia, “shall I subject myself to a scene of such disgrace and horror? No, never!—The punishment of my error shall at least secure its reformation. Yet if I merit your reproaches, I deserve not your regard; cease, therefore, to profess any for me, or make them no more.”
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