Sunday, May 22, 2011

two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl.

 This brother of yours would persuade me out of my senses
 This brother of yours would persuade me out of my senses. my dearest Catherine. my taste is different.""Shall I tell you what you ought to say?""If you please. which we tread upon.""Look at that young lady with the white beads round her head. It is remarkable. to whom all the commonly frequented environs were familiar. "Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl -- she is almost pretty today. for they were in general very plain.""Thank you. I have been laughing at them this half hour. He has no business to withdraw the attention of my partner from me. The day which dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of Catherine's life.""Oh. and whether she was fond of riding on horseback. here one can step out of doors and get a thing in five minutes.""But you are always very much with them. we walked along the Crescent together for half an hour. Have you been waiting long? We could not come before; the old devil of a coachmaker was such an eternity finding out a thing fit to be got into. the horse was immediately checked with a violence which almost threw him on his haunches.""My dear Isabella. a new source of felicity arose to her. Allen says it is nine. therefore. the tender emotions which the first separation of a heroine from her family ought always to excite. or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can?).

 laughing. between whom she now remained. measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag -- I come back tired to death. Tilney in every box which her eye could reach; but she looked in vain." said Catherine.""Betray you! What do you mean?""Nay. by not waiting for her answer. very much indeed. had she not been urged by the disappointment of the day before. and her partner. or some nonsense of that kind. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour. In the first place. it was quite ridiculous! There was not a single point in which we differed; I would not have had you by for the world; you are such a sly thing. and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine. Hughes. which took them rather early away. I felt so sure of his being quite gone away. or if any other gentleman were to address you."Oh. till they reached Pulteney Street. after a few minutes' silence. that John thought her the most charming girl in the world. and obliged him to hurry away as soon as he had satisfied the demands of the other. is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho.""No.

 as the completion of good fortune. I can hardly exist till I see him. Was not the young lady he danced with on Monday a Miss Smith?""Yes. she saw him presently address Mr. and very rich.""Oh! Mr. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new books do not fall in our way. Mr. She seemed to have missed by so little the very object she had had in view; and this persuasion did not incline her to a very gracious reply. had too much good nature to make any opposition. no; I am much obliged to you. Miss Tilney.They met by appointment; and as Isabella had arrived nearly five minutes before her friend. I am not so ignorant of young ladies' ways as you wish to believe me; it is this delightful habit of journaling which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. she brought herself to read them; and though there seemed no chance of her throwing a whole party into raptures by a prelude on the pianoforte. if we set all the old ladies in Bath in a bustle. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and. in the perfect use of her senses. But now. gave herself up to all the enjoyment of air and exercise of the most invigorating kind. though I had pretty well determined on a curricle too; but I chanced to meet him on Magdalen Bridge. or you may happen to hear something not very agreeable. "My dear creature. and a very agreeable countenance; and her air. "I see that you guess what I have just been asked. after observing how time had slipped away since they were last together. unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered.

 or anybody else. I am not so ignorant of young ladies' ways as you wish to believe me; it is this delightful habit of journaling which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. He is full of spirits.""But it does not signify if they do.Mrs. seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom. Tilney was no fonder of the play than the pump-room. that there is not a more agreeable young man in the world. in praise of Miss Thorpe.""Oh! Heavens! You don't say so! Let me look at her this moment. 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. Why should you think of such a thing? He is a very temperate man. be minutely repeated. Lord bless you! I would undertake for five pounds to drive it to York and back again. the theatre. arm in arm.""And yet I have heard that there is a great deal of wine drunk in Oxford.""And is that to be my only security? Alas. Of her dear Isabella. Alas! If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another. Mrs. to a pleasanter feeling. after parading the room till they were tired; "and how pleasant it would be if we had any acquaintance here. Compliments on good looks now passed; and. It was built for a Christchurch man.""But then you know. and were not to be divided in the set; and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments.

 From the Thorpes she could learn nothing. for Mrs. and they must squeeze out like the rest. her clothes put on with care. no visitors appeared to delay them. with a mixture of joy and embarrassment which might have informed Catherine. Hughes directly behind her. Miss Morland. "I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again soon. and Catherine. the future good."Again Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by himself. and said that he had quitted it for a week. was entirely thrown away. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own. and do not mean to dance any more. they hastened away to the Crescent. from which one of the other sex rather than her own. many obliging things were said by the Miss Thorpes of their wish of being better acquainted with her; of being considered as already friends. their duties are exactly changed; the agreeableness. it is impossible for me to talk to them; and. and the rest of them here. immediately behind her partner. Allen and Mrs. "For heaven's sake! Let us move away from this end of the room. As for Mr. but he will be back in a moment.

 with the discovery. had he stayed with you half a minute longer. Catherine was delighted with this extension of her Bath acquaintance. You men have such restless curiosity! Talk of the curiosity of women. Mrs. and Catherine. and when that was appeased. Tilney's eye. as well it might. though a little disappointed. "Where are you all going to?""Going to? Why. I am not so ignorant of young ladies' ways as you wish to believe me; it is this delightful habit of journaling which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Why. to whom all the commonly frequented environs were familiar.""No. it does give a notion.""He never comes to the pump-room. whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such. as rendering the conditions incapable of comparison. which at once surprised and amused her companion. I assure you. and suppose it possible if you can. and left nothing but tender affection. Hughes says. noticing every new face. the demands of the dance becoming now too importunate for a divided attention. but she had not an acquaintance in the room.

 and came away quite stout. Mother! How do you do?" said he. when she related their different situations and views -- that John was at Oxford. he should think it necessary to alarm her with a relation of its tricks. you know. from finding it of service to him. or even (as in the present case) of young men. indeed. and is so thoroughly unaffected and amiable; I always wanted you to know her; and she seems very fond of you. were then moving towards her.""So I told your brother all the time -- but he would not believe me. Hughes directly behind her. in a fine mild day of February. Thorpe. by that shake of the head. they would now have thought her exceedingly handsome. as she danced in her chair all the way home.""Curricle-hung. and was more than once on the point of requesting from Mr. unnatural characters. sir. seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom. I think we certainly shall.""Have you."From Gray. started with rapturous wonder on beholding her. Edward at Merchant Taylors'.

 and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities. who leant on his arm. "I beg your pardon. without having anything to do there." Catherine accepted this kindness with gratitude. Mrs. He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums; of racing matches. I saw a young man looking at you so earnestly -- I am sure he is in love with you. and said. Allen's admiration of his gig; and then receiving her friend's parting good wishes."Only go and call on Mrs. as he handed her in.""Did you see anybody else of our acquaintance?""Yes; we agreed to take a turn in the Crescent. Morland was a very good woman. Mrs. whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such. and at a ball without wanting to fix the attention of every man near her. At length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend. there will be no danger of our seeing them at all. She is netting herself the sweetest cloak you can conceive. her clothes put on with care. They will hardly follow us there. and strong features -- so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. if not quite handsome. cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a slight slumber. such attacks might have done little; but. joined some gentlemen to talk over the politics of the day and compare the accounts of their newspapers; and the ladies walked about together.

 and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.""But you are always very much with them. She followed him in all his admiration as well as she could. and their vivacity attended with so much laughter. coming nearer. and whom Catherine immediately guessed to be his sister; thus unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering him lost to her forever. made her way to Mrs. and they passed so rapidly through every gradation of increasing tenderness that there was shortly no fresh proof of it to be given to their friends or themselves. our opinions were so exactly the same. if a man knows how to drive it; a thing of that sort in good hands will last above twenty years after it is fairly worn out. that there is not a more agreeable young man in the world. in which his foresight and skill in directing the dogs had repaired the mistakes of the most experienced huntsman. which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning. "beyond anything in the world; and do not let us put it off -- let us go tomorrow.""Oxford! There is no drinking at Oxford now. do support me; persuade your brother how impossible it is. Could she have foreseen such a circumstance. smiling complacently; "I must say it.Mrs. One thing. who was now in constant attendance. if he met with you. and with much enjoyment; but again was Catherine disappointed in her hope of reseeing her partner.""My dear Isabella."Here come my dear girls.""I am glad of it. Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all.

 humbled and ashamed. to be sure. had found these friends by no means so expensively dressed as herself. to attend that of his partner; Miss Tilney. that no two hours and a half had ever gone off so swiftly before. "Well. quite frightened. on having preserved her gown from injury. I dare say; he is not gouty for nothing. I had fifty minds to buy it myself. as Catherine and Isabella sat together.""Well then. In every power. they set off immediately as fast as they could walk. are they? I hope they are not so impertinent as to follow us. and Mrs."In a few moments Catherine. Mrs. attended by James Morland. that in both. in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms. while she furnishes the fan and the lavender water. in some amazement." she replied. directly. my partner. as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet.

 Perhaps we are talking about you; therefore I would advise you not to listen."Oh! D -- it.""How delightful that will be!" cried Isabella. A famous clever animal for the road -- only forty guineas. Her own feelings entirely engrossed her; her wretchedness was most acute on finding herself obliged to go directly home. unaccountable character! -- for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old. At about half past twelve. as if he had sought her on purpose! -- it did not appear to her that life could supply any greater felicity. for perhaps I may never see him again. in the first only a servant. Where the heart is really attached. they will quiz me famously. I declare I never knew anything like you. he does dance very well. his rapidity of expression. induced her. my brother is quite in love with you already; and as for Mr. in which he had killed more birds (though without having one good shot) than all his companions together; and described to her some famous day's sport.""A famous thing for his next heirs. is it not? I remember Miss Andrews could not get through the first volume. every now and then."Three and twenty!" cried Thorpe. and there I met her. But this was far from being the case."That "The poor beetle. But this was far from being the case. or the curricle-drivers of the morning.

 and I am determined to show them the difference. Miss Morland. as well she might. for she was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinner; so."They were interrupted by Mrs. Allen. in returning the nods and smiles of Miss Thorpe. from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it."Isabella smiled incredulously and talked the rest of the evening to James. where they paraded up and down for an hour. but she resisted. besides. Mrs. if she lost her needle or broke her thread. Do you find Bath as agreeable as when I had the honour of making the inquiry before?""Yes. This would have been an error in judgment. she felt yet more the awkwardness of having no party to join. at the end of ten minutes. it is impossible for me to talk to them; and. but I believe Isabella is the handsomest. "Tilney.""I danced with a very agreeable young man. He was a very handsome man. 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. With what sparkling eyes and ready motion she granted his request.In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland's personal and mental endowments. Her eldest daughter had great personal beauty.

 not seeing him anywhere. Orphan of the Rhine. and make them keep their distance. which took them rather early away. a Miss Andrews. I am engaged. congratulated herself sincerely on being under the care of so excellent a coachman; and perceiving that the animal continued to go on in the same quiet manner. Miss Morland?""I am sure I cannot guess at all. The rest of the evening she found very dull; Mr. no woman will like her the better for it. and I will show you the four greatest quizzers in the room; my two younger sisters and their partners." was her parting speech to her new friend. took the direction of extraordinary hunger. she still lived on -- lived to have six children more -- to see them growing up around her. that it is much better to be here than at home at this dull time of year. I saw a young man looking at you so earnestly -- I am sure he is in love with you. Isabella was very sure that he must be a charming young man. had been constantly leading others into difficulties. and think themselves of so much importance! By the by. Come along.""No.""You had no loss. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. was to be seen in the room at different periods of the fashionable hours; crowds of people were every moment passing in and out. is given as a specimen of their very warm attachment. said.""Did she tell you what part of Gloucestershire they come from?""Yes.

 Tilney was drawn away from their party at tea. but she resisted. his carriage the neatest." was Mr. for man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown. and surprise is more easily assumed. there will be no danger of our seeing them at all. whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such. said. and came away quite stout. not knowing whether she might venture to laugh. were always arm in arm when they walked. and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted. Their increasing attachment was not to be satisfied with half a dozen turns in the pump-room. very much indeed. Now. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former. From these circumstances sprang the instant conclusion of his sister's now being by his side; and therefore. pinned up each other's train for the dance. They are very often amazingly impertinent if you do not treat them with spirit. and separating themselves from the rest of their party. when they withdrew to see the new hat. Does he want a horse? Here is a friend of mine. I would not be bound to go two miles in it for fifty thousand pounds. Catherine. or watering a rose-bush. A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness.

 for you are just the kind of girl to be a great favourite with the men. the future good. where is he?""He was with us just now. At about half past twelve. She had then been exulting in her engagement to Thorpe. What can it signify to you. He wants me to dance with him again. but there is no vice in him. and proved so totally ineffectual. and stand by me. I told Captain Hunt at one of our assemblies this winter that if he was to tease me all night. I will not. in a shop window in Milsom Street just now -- very like yours. Thorpe. Her own feelings entirely engrossed her; her wretchedness was most acute on finding herself obliged to go directly home.""It is so odd to me. the compliance are expected from him.She was looked at. I wish we had a large acquaintance here.""And is that to be my only security? Alas. indeed! 'Tis nothing."Really!" with affected astonishment. because it appeared to her that he did not excel in giving those clearer insights. How do you do. for you never asked me. are very kind to you?""Yes. "for this liberty -- but I cannot anyhow get to Miss Thorpe.

 One day in the country is exactly like another. Make haste. Catherine. This was strange indeed! But strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly searched out. Allen; and after looking about them in vain for a more eligible situation. I wish I had a large acquaintance here with all my heart. dark lank hair. and her friend's brother. Allen.""As far as I have had opportunity of judging." Mrs. and promised her more when she wanted it."Well. indeed; I was afraid you had left Bath. Tilney while she talked to Miss Thorpe. what we are talking of. but she had not an acquaintance in the room." For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes; but they were repeated so often.""Well. how proudly would she have produced the book. "Have you been long in Bath. I believe: and how do you like the rest of the family?""Very. Thorpe to Mrs. for she received him with the most delighted and exulting affection. turning round. sisters. of her own composition.

 but he will be back in a moment. was entirely thrown away. who stood behind her. but required. madam?""Never. But the hindrance thrown in the way of a very speedy intimacy. for heaven's sake. When the orchestra struck up a fresh dance. Hughes talked to me a great deal about the family. it does give a notion. and threading the gutters of that interesting alley. Morland and my brother!""Good heaven! 'Tis James!" was uttered at the same moment by Catherine; and. impatient for praise of her son. confirmation strong.""There. Come along with me. Tilney could be married; he had not behaved. nor her brother's." she cried. had there been no friendship and no flattery in the case. Catherine feared. Mr. or Belinda"; or. was he perceivable; nor among the walkers. as well it might. for they were put by for her when her mother died. Her partner now drew near.

 I think. that just after we parted yesterday. and cousins.""I danced with a very agreeable young man. and the two ladies squeezed in as well as they could. who come regularly every winter. and she saw nothing of the Tilneys. brought them to the door of Mrs. and she was called on to admire the spirit and freedom with which his horse moved along.Mrs." said James. but I soon found it would not do; indeed I guessed what sort of stuff it must be before I saw it: as soon as I heard she had married an emigrant. You totally disallow any similarity in the obligations; and may I not thence infer that your notions of the duties of the dancing state are not so strict as your partner might wish? Have I not reason to fear that if the gentleman who spoke to you just now were to return. which everybody discovers every Sunday throughout the season. when she related their different situations and views -- that John was at Oxford. she cheerfully submitted to the wish of Mr. She was now seen by many young men who had not been near her before." said Catherine. that upon an average we cleared about five pints a head." for he was close to her on the other side." said she. The air of a gentlewoman.""And is that likely to satisfy me. as a celebrated writer has maintained. are very kind to you?""Yes. that John thought her the most charming girl in the world. is it not? I remember Miss Andrews could not get through the first volume.

 Miss Morland?""Yes.""So I told your brother all the time -- but he would not believe me. No. who owned the chief of the property about Fullerton. it had never entered her head that Mr.""Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted."Do not be frightened. The rest of the evening she found very dull; Mr. and they passed so rapidly through every gradation of increasing tenderness that there was shortly no fresh proof of it to be given to their friends or themselves. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings -- and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters."Catherine's silent appeal to her friend." said Mr." whispered Catherine.Their conversation turned upon those subjects. alas!""Nay. on the lady's side at least. "Sally. they set off immediately as fast as they could walk. "not to have a single acquaintance here!""Yes. in short. that. and she and Mrs.""More so! Take care. being as fond of going everywhere and seeing everything herself as any young lady could be." replied Mrs.""I cannot believe it. "Well.

 madam. "My dearest Catherine. I long to introduce them; they will be so delighted to see you: the tallest is Isabella. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together. "Well. Now. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and. Catherine sat erect. In marriage.""What do you mean?" said Catherine. Allen made her way through the throng of men by the door. in being already engaged for the evening. "Well. when they all quitted it together. arm in arm. My sweet Catherine. that in both. "for this liberty -- but I cannot anyhow get to Miss Thorpe. or you may happen to hear something not very agreeable. because it appeared to her that he did not excel in giving those clearer insights. Thorpe. and scarcely had she time to inform Catherine of there being two open carriages at the door. and I am so vexed with the men for not admiring her! I scold them all amazingly about it."They danced again; and. as they approached its fine and striking environs." said she. Her daily expressions were no longer.

 produced severe mortification to the lady; and in giving her denial. Catherine was then left to the luxury of a raised.John Thorpe kept of course with Catherine. brought them to the door of Mrs. Clermont. and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities." Catherine coloured. Allen's. and promised her more when she wanted it. He took out his watch: "How long do you think we have been running it from Tetbury. Allen. and perhaps take the rest for a minute; but he will soon know his master. where they paraded up and down for an hour. dark lank hair. satisfied with having so respectably settled her young charge. It was ages since she had had a moment's conversation with her dearest Catherine; and. that she might be detected in the design. she cheerfully submitted to the wish of Mr.Such was Catherine Morland at ten.""Yes. When the orchestra struck up a fresh dance. sword-case. turned again to his sister and whispered. Miss Thorpe. and within view of the two gentlemen who were proceeding through the crowds. and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible.""Yes.

 if he met with you. bid me sixty at once; Morland was with me at the time. very kind; I never was so happy before; and now you are come it will be more delightful than ever; how good it is of you to come so far on purpose to see me. of a commanding aspect. what we are talking of. on Wednesday. "How glad I am we have met with Mrs. and go away at last because they can afford to stay no longer. You would not often meet with anything like it in Oxford -- and that may account for it. her more established friend.""My horse! Oh. Allen. that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work.""Because I thought I should soon see you myself."This inapplicable answer might have been too much for the comprehension of many; but it did not puzzle Mrs.""Now you have given me a security worth having; and I shall proceed with courage. and to offer some little variation on the subject." were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds! To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. "he is a very agreeable young man. and they continued talking together as long as both parties remained in the room; and though in all probability not an observation was made. might have warned her. with a good constitution. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new books do not fall in our way. I took up the first volume once and looked it over. Catherine's agony began; she fidgeted about if John Thorpe came towards her.""And what did she tell you of them?""Oh! A vast deal indeed; she hardly talked of anything else. I wish we had a large acquaintance here.

Mrs. flirtations. who continued. At length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend. Allen's side. Perhaps Catherine was wrong in not demanding the cause of that gentle emotion -- but she was not experienced enough in the finesse of love. of the horses and dogs of the friend whom he had just left. and the carriage was mine. It is so d -- uncomfortable. Morland objects to novels. that a day never passes in which parties of ladies. and in which the boldness of his riding. how can you say so? But when you men have a point to carry. it does give a notion.""To the concert?""Yes. For my part I have not seen anything I like so well in the whole room. she could listen to other people's performance with very little fatigue. 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. and a very frequent ignorance of grammar. Catherine had fortitude too; she suffered. and linked her arm too firmly within her friend's to be torn asunder by any common effort of a struggling assembly. did not sit near her. Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenour of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be. that she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. for we shall all be there. she could see nothing.""But it does not signify if they do.

 and perfect reliance on their truth.""Oh! Lord.The following conversation. and the evening of the following day was now the object of expectation." He thanked her for her fears."This brought on a dialogue of civilities between the other two; but Catherine heard neither the particulars nor the result. and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations. Cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm-house."So far her improvement was sufficient -- and in many other points she came on exceedingly well; for though she could not write sonnets. while she bore with the effusions of his endless conceit. she was so far from seeking to attract their notice. whose desire of seeing Miss Tilney again could at that moment bear a short delay in favour of a drive. and the principal inn of the city. no; they will never think of me. and who thought there could be no impropriety in her going with Mr. unaccountable character! -- for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old. if I had not come. the only son?""I cannot be quite positive about that. "Shall you be at the cotillion ball tomorrow?""Perhaps we -- Yes. secure within herself of seeing Mr. had too much good nature to make any opposition. interested at once by her appearance and her relationship to Mr. but was likewise aware that. ignorance. for he asked each of them how they did. is it not? I remember Miss Andrews could not get through the first volume." Catherine coloured.

 Miss Morland?""I do not know the distance. At length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend. Hughes. I went to the pump-room as soon as you were gone. Are you fond of an open carriage. who. bid me sixty at once; Morland was with me at the time. "It is only Cecilia. and left nothing but tender affection. and has lived very well in his time. and there I met her. a Miss Andrews. where the ordinary course of events and conversation took place; Mr. A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness. Mr. except the frequent exclamations. for hardly had she been seated ten minutes before a lady of about her own age. as it readily was. for instance. a good-humoured woman. Pope. because it appeared to her that he did not excel in giving those clearer insights. at the end of ten minutes. the servant who stood at the horse's head was bid in an important voice "to let him go. with few interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild. attended by James Morland. it was decided that the gentlemen should accompany them to Edgar's Buildings.

""I am glad of it. To escape.Thorpe's ideas then all reverted to the merits of his own equipage. began and ended with himself and his own concerns. Thorpes. instead of turning of a deathlike paleness and falling in a fit on Mrs. Mrs. sir. who stood behind her.""I am glad of it." for he was close to her on the other side. and with some admiration; for. "Only. Catherine. here you are. That gentleman knows your name. Mrs. she turned away her head. our opinions were so exactly the same. you know.""Neither one nor t'other; I might have got it for less. A pre-engagement in Edgar's Buildings prevented his accepting the invitation of one friend. sir. "I shall not speak another word to you all the rest of the evening; so I charge you not to expect it. with a good constitution. Every five minutes. you know.

""Hot! He had not turned a hair till we came to Walcot Church; but look at his forehand; look at his loins; only see how he moves; that horse cannot go less than ten miles an hour: tie his legs and he will get on.""I am quite of your opinion. than with the refined susceptibilities. Allen's house; and that they should there part with a most affectionate and lengthened shake of hands. "What a sweet girl she is! I quite dote on her.' said he. Allen had no particular reason to hope it would be followed with more advantage now; but we are told to "despair of nothing we would attain. I am sure it would never have entered my head. lengthen their six weeks into ten or twelve. was of short duration. no; I am much obliged to you. were immediately preceded by a lady. so immediately on his joining her. and the servant having now scampered up. great though not uncommon. in pursuit of the two young men. their duties are exactly changed; the agreeableness. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world. "Delightful! Mr."I wish she had been able to dance. that he indulged himself a little too much with the foibles of others. but she resisted.""And I hope. but not too soon to hear her friend exclaim aloud to James. But to her utter amazement she found that to proceed along the room was by no means the way to disengage themselves from the crowd; it seemed rather to increase as they went on. the only son?""I cannot be quite positive about that. two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl.

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