ABSTRACT
WHILE these things passed at Rochemorte, Celestina, no longer doubting of Willoughby’s marriage, and entire desertion of her, was trying to acquire once more that calm resignation, which she had so often determined to adopt, and so often lost. – Montague Thorold accompanied Lady Horatia to Cheltenham; where, as Celestina foresaw, his ardent entreaties, and the wishes of her friend, so strongly enforcing them, gave her so much pain, that she grew hourly more fond of the scheme she had adopted, of traveling. If she found it difficult to evade the importunities of her lover, and her benefactress, she dreaded yet more the arrival of the elder Mr. Thorold; who, about six weeks after Montague’s recovery, came with him (after a short visit he had paid at home) to Cheltenham.
