Dismay’d and sunk, his thoughts beyond control;
Borne on by terror, he foreboding read
Cecilia’s letter! and his courage fled;
All was a gloomy, dark, and dreadful view,
He felt him guilty, but indignant too:— 650
And as he read, he felt the high disdain
Of injured men—“She may repent, in vain.”
Cecilia much had heard, and told him all
That scandal taught—“A servant at the hall,
Or servant’s daughter, in the kitchen bred,