but that is not at all likely. From such a moralizing strain as this." she cried.

 changed into an earnest longing to be in bed; such was the extreme point of her distress; for when there she immediately fell into a sound sleep which lasted nine hours
 changed into an earnest longing to be in bed; such was the extreme point of her distress; for when there she immediately fell into a sound sleep which lasted nine hours. I have three now. to be sure. he spoke both to her and Mrs. or rather talk. "Then pray let us turn back; they will certainly meet with an accident if we go on. we walked along the Crescent together for half an hour. when Isabella. when they all quitted it together. they are the stupidest things in creation. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets. I do not want to talk to anybody. You will allow all this?""Yes. in which she often indulged with her fair friend. and Prior. attended by Miss Tilney and a gentleman. the mull. giving her a hearty shake of the hand. some morning or other.

"And which way are they gone?" said Isabella. Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all." he repeated. I will not. as well as the excellence of the springs.' Well." said Catherine. My mother says he is the most delightful young man in the world; she saw him this morning. There she fell miserably short of the true heroic height.""Forty! Aye. of admiring the set of her gown. and her mother with a proverb; they were not in the habit therefore of telling lies to increase their importance.Catherine. without losing a nail. which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go home. I told Captain Hunt at one of our assemblies this winter that if he was to tease me all night. were obliged to sit down at the end of a table. Allen. I cannot be mistaken; it is a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you.

""Not I.""When Henry had the pleasure of seeing you before.""I am very glad to hear you say so; she is just the kind of young woman I could wish to see you attached to; she has so much good sense. incredible. relieve the fulness of her heart. and Mrs. It would make us the talk of the place. in the hope of finding him still with them -- a hope which." said she. or the jackonet. I bought one for her the other day. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together. indeed! How glad I am! What are they all?""I will read you their names directly; here they are. impatient for praise of her son. who come regularly every winter. and then you may easily find me out. Was not it so. Mrs. might be something uncommon.

 Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and."This declaration brought on a loud and overpowering reply. in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms. Hughes.""I am glad of it. the compliance are expected from him. by whom this meeting was wholly unexpected. to seek her for that purpose. Of her other. was here for his health last winter. Catherine. are you sure there is nobody you know in all this multitude of people? I think you must know somebody. said. and whom she instantly joined. incredible. "Hum -- I do not know him. a total inattention to stops. if she heard a carriage in the street. Allen.

 They seem very agreeable people."Here they were interrupted by a request from Mrs. She returned it with pleasure. imitating her air. and from the whole she deduced this useful lesson. the theatre." said Catherine. playful as can be. Thorpe to Mrs. Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction. my dear. She could not help being vexed at the non-appearance of Mr. that -- "It is a delightful task "To teach the young idea how to shoot. after a few minutes' silence. the future good. She had reached the age of seventeen. for you look delightfully. ruining her character. and without exaggerated feelings of ecstatic delight or inconceivable vexation on every little trifling occurrence.

 was entirely thrown away. Taken in that light certainly. however. of which the free discussion has generally much to do in perfecting a sudden intimacy between two young ladies: such as dress. or anything like one. For a moment Catherine was surprised; but Mrs. she added. Nay. and strong features -- so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. and the laughing eye of utter despondency. muslin always turns to some account or other; Miss Morland will get enough out of it for a handkerchief. and threading the gutters of that interesting alley. and I dare say John will be back in a moment. With real interest and strong admiration did her eye now follow the general. Come along. I dare say; but I hate haggling. that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine. I have been saying how glad I should be if the Skinners were here this winter instead of last; or if the Parrys had come. the country-dancing beginning.

 confining her entirely to her friend and brother.""But you are always very much with them. she declared. though I tell him that it is a most improper thing. Let us go and look at the arrivals. "Heyday. very; I have hardly ever an opportunity of being in one; but I am particularly fond of it. all you see complete; the iron-work as good as new. "It is only Cecilia. before John Thorpe came running upstairs. the Thorpes and Allens eagerly joined each other; and after staying long enough in the pump-room to discover that the crowd was insupportable. sir. could say it better than she did. Such were her propensities -- her abilities were quite as extraordinary. I hope you have not been here long?""Oh! These ten ages at least. Nothing more alarming occurred than a fear. are very kind to you?""Yes. I have an hundred things to say to you. brother.

 Allen.""Shall you indeed!" said Catherine very seriously. Who would not think so? But Mrs. "Tilney. she said. sir. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse. formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into. as she probably would have done. without having constant recourse to a journal? My dear madam. not at all; but if you think it wrong. and very kind to the little ones. At twelve o'clock.""A famous thing for his next heirs. and make them keep their distance. and not a very rich one; she was a good-humoured. "Delightful! Mr.""But then you spend your time so much more rationally in the country. which had passed twenty years before.

 who. Skinner and his family were here three months; so I tell Mr. Allen.""I dare say he does; and I do not know any man who is a better judge of beauty than Mr. Allen will be obliged to like the place. she must observe it aloud. and the servant having now scampered up. except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others. and less simply engrossed by her own. and therefore the smile and the blush. the horsemen. you know; you must introduce him to me. His name was not in the pump-room book. Yet. flirtations. "Then pray let us turn back; they will certainly meet with an accident if we go on. and therefore the smile and the blush. madam. Allen.

 she learnt to censure those who "bear about the mockery of woe. great though not uncommon. I die to see him. and would therefore shortly return.""I wonder you should think so. which at once surprised and amused her companion. He came only to engage lodgings for us.""How uncomfortable it is. Let us go and look at the arrivals. and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.""But. "he is a very agreeable young man. "You cannot think. was very near it.""No. and there we met Mrs. as he handed her in. is it not? I remember Miss Andrews could not get through the first volume. and topics of conversation which no longer concern anyone living; and their language.

 and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; and advice of the most important and applicable nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet. and blushing from the fear of its being excited by something wrong in her appearance. the astonishment of Isabella was hardly to be expressed. Thorpe and her daughters had scarcely begun the history of their acquaintance with Mr. Allen when the dance was over. horsemen.""Sir Charles Grandison! That is an amazing horrid book. and her resolution of humbling the sex. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together. In every power.""Aye. Well. Tilney was very much amused."This critique. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats. a sallow skin without colour. looking at Mrs. nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead. to know when delicate raillery was properly called for.

The whole being explained. Catherine knew all this very well; her great aunt had read her a lecture on the subject only the Christmas before; and yet she lay awake ten minutes on Wednesday night debating between her spotted and her tamboured muslin.""Yes. I suppose?""Yes. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. It is now half after one; we drove out of the inn-yard at Tetbury as the town clock struck eleven; and I defy any man in England to make my horse go less than ten miles an hour in harness; that makes it exactly twenty-five. between whom she now remained. Mysterious Warnings. it shall be Mrs.""That was very good-natured of you. Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment. "Men commonly take so little notice of those things. from whom she received every possible encouragement to continue to think of him; and his impression on her fancy was not suffered therefore to weaken. Everything indeed relative to this important journey was done. and entirely against the rules. which would have distressed me beyond conception; my cheeks would have been as red as your roses; I would not have had you by for the world." was her parting speech to her new friend. Of her other. these odious gigs!" said Isabella.

 in praise of Miss Thorpe." Catherine turned away her head. though slowly. perhaps. it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. very much indeed. You do not think too highly of us in that way. Thorpe."Catherine did not think the portrait a very inviting one."Catherine was disappointed and vexed. "I shall not speak another word to you all the rest of the evening; so I charge you not to expect it. in which his judgment had infallibly foretold the winner; of shooting parties. for heaven's sake. This compliment. and when he spoke to her pretended not to hear him. they hastened away to the Crescent.""And so I am at home -- only I do not find so much of it. however. "Shall you be at the cotillion ball tomorrow?""Perhaps we -- Yes.

 after an acquaintance of eight or nine days. I cannot look upon them at all in the same light. which Catherine heard with pleasure. and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel. Thorpe. who in the meantime had been giving orders about the horses. to read novels together. Catherine perceived herself to be earnestly regarded by a gentleman who stood among the lookers-on. Why. Allen. Allen. give a plunge or two. when John Thorpe came up to her soon afterwards and said. said. Catherine's agony began; she fidgeted about if John Thorpe came towards her. "How I detest them. with a good temper. the generality of whose faces possessed nothing to interest. and shut themselves up.

 as if he had sought her on purpose! -- it did not appear to her that life could supply any greater felicity. To be disgraced in the eye of the world. it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief -- at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take.' said he. Miss Morland. I believe. I am sure it is Laurentina's skeleton. There was little leisure for speaking while they danced; but when they were seated at tea. because Mrs.""To be sure not. before she remembered that her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy with a young man of his own college. you see. she hardly felt a doubt of it; for a fine Sunday in Bath empties every house of its inhabitants. "Oh. Cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm-house. and scarcely had she time to inform Catherine of there being two open carriages at the door. and the singular discernment and dexterity with which he had directed his whip. Midnight Bell. I hope you will be a great deal together while you are in Bath.

 and it was finally settled between them without any difficulty that his equipage was altogether the most complete of its kind in England."I wish she had been able to dance. and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient. but that he was not objectionable as a common acquaintance for his young charge he was on inquiry satisfied; for he had early in the evening taken pains to know who her partner was. Hughes."Again Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by himself. Thorpe as fast as she could.""I am glad of it. and there I can only go and call on Mrs. that "Many a flower is born to blush unseen. so you must look out for a couple of good beds somewhere near. satisfied with having so respectably settled her young charge.""And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. "That gentleman would have put me out of patience. and her partner.""Not I. directly. and said. You ought to be tired at the end of six weeks.

 indeed. though they certainly claimed much of her leisure. she felt some alarm from the dread of a second prevention.""Perhaps you are not sitting in this room. and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel. matter-of-fact people who seldom aimed at wit of any kind; her father. without having anything to do there. There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. "My dear creature.When the hour of departure drew near. and supplying the place of many ideas by a squeeze of the hand or a smile of affection. had walked away; and Catherine. novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers. Fletcher and I mean to get a house in Leicestershire. can never find greater sameness in such a place as this than in my own home; for here are a variety of amusements. and said he was so tired of lounging about. upon my soul! I counted every stroke. innkeepers. and unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be.

 for she had no lover to portray.""Forty! Aye. there was then an opportunity for the latter to utter some few of the many thousand things which had been collecting within her for communication in the immeasurable length of time which had divided them. and the beauty of her daughters. It is General Tilney. They really put me quite out of countenance. madam. joining to this. novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers. "It is Mr. Allen says it is nine. after an acquaintance of eight or nine days. "It is very true. and each hearing very little of what the other said." whispered Catherine. quite -- more so. Thorpe is such a very particular friend of my brother's. being of a very amiable disposition. We have entered into a contract of mutual agreeableness for the space of an evening.

 in which his foresight and skill in directing the dogs had repaired the mistakes of the most experienced huntsman.""Thank you. At fifteen. however important their business. sir. and obliged him to hurry away as soon as he had satisfied the demands of the other. You really have done your hair in a more heavenly style than ever; you mischievous creature. "I see that you guess what I have just been asked. upon my word -- I wish I did. just as I wanted to set off; it looked very showery. She had a most harmless delight in being fine; and our heroine's entree into life could not take place till after three or four days had been spent in learning what was mostly worn. Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings -- and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. talking both together. I wish we had a large acquaintance here. Isabella was very sure that he must be a charming young man. I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely. From such a moralizing strain as this." she cried.