conveniencies and indulgencies with which she was now parting, would
soon be restored to her, and though not with equal power, with far more
satisfaction. She told her steward her design of going the next morning
to London, bid him pay instantly all her debts, and discharge all her
servants, determining to keep no account open but that with Mr
Eggleston, which he had made so intricate by double and undue demands,
that she thought it most prudent and safe to leave him wholly to
Delvile.

She then packed up all her papers and letters, and ordered her maid to
pack up her clothes.

She next put her own seal upon her cabinets, draws, and many other
things, and employed almost all her servants at once, in making
complete inventories of what every room contained.

She advised Mrs Harrel to send without delay for Mr Arnott, and return
to his house. She had first purposed to carry Henrietta home to her
mother herself; but another scheme for her now occurred, from which she
hoped much future advantage to the amiable and dejected girl.

She knew well, that deep as was at present her despondency, the removal
of all possibility of hope, by her knowledge of Delvile's marriage,
must awaken her before long from the delusive visions of her romantic
fancy; Mr Arnott himself was in a situation exactly similar, and the
knowledge of the same event would probably be productive of the same
effect. When Mrs Harrel, therefore, began to repine at the solitude to
which she was returning, Cecilia proposed to her the society of
Henrietta, which, glad to catch at any thing that would break into her
loneliness, she listened to with pleasure, and seconded by an