Date: 1782

"Cecilia, too much astonished for speech, stood for some time immoveable, revolving in her mind various conjectures upon the meaning of an exhortation so strange and so urgent."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"While this was passing in her mind, on the evening of the day in which she had so dearly purchased the right of giving counsel, she was summoned to tea."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"She had no time, however, for comments, as she was presently called to the second cotillon; but the confused and unpleasant ideas which, without waiting for time or reflection, crowded upon her imagination on observing his behaviour, were not more depressing to herself, than obvious to her part...

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"Left at length by herself, she revolved in her mind the adventure of the evening, and the whole behaviour of Delvile since first she was acquainted with him."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"The consternation of doubt and astonishment which had seized every faculty of Cecilia, now changed into certainty that Delvile indeed was present, all her recollection returned as she listened to this question, and the wild rambling of fancy with which she had incautiously indulged her sorrow, r...

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"This question, which so often and so angrily she had revolved in her own mind, again silenced her; and Delvile, with the eagerness of approaching success, redoubled his solicitations."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"She determined, as much as was in her power, in quitting her desultory dwellings, to empty her mind of the transactions which had passed in them, and upon entering a house where she was permanently to reside, to make the expulsion of her past sorrows, the basis upon which to establish her future...

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"She told her not what had passed; that, she knew, would be fruitless affiction to her: but she was soothed by her gentleness, and her conversation was some security from the dangerous rambling of her ideas."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"These thoughts, which confusedly, yet forcibly, rushed upon her mind, brought with them at once an excuse for his conduct, and an alarm for his danger."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"Again her fancy roved, and Mr. Monckton took sole possession of it."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)