ABSTRACT

IN the mean time Celestina was alone at Cheltenham, indulging that regret which arose from the certain loss of Willoughby’s friendship, and the assurance that she should see him no more. – Every day she expected to see in the newspapers, or to hear from Lady Horatia, that he was married – and though she tried to reason herself into a calm acquiescence with what was unavoidable, she never opened a paper or a letter without trembling.