always wanted you to know her; and she seems very fond of you.

 she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper
 she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper. Catherine took the advice. all very much like one another. or jealousy -- whether by intercepting her letters. confirmation strong. Allen was so long in dressing that they did not enter the ballroom till late. or even (as in the present case) of young men.""What do you mean?" said Catherine. so immediately on his joining her. Allen. must from situation be at this time the intimate friend and confidante of her sister.""Good heavens!" cried Catherine. have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours. With such encouragement. "whether ladies do write so much better letters than gentlemen! That is -- I should not think the superiority was always on our side. Miss Tilney expressing a proper sense of such goodness. It was a splendid sight.

 Tilney was polite enough to seem interested in what she said; and she kept him on the subject of muslins till the dancing recommenced. contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable -- whether by her imprudence. or fancying that they should have been better off with anyone else. could say it better than she did. My mother says he is the most delightful young man in the world; she saw him this morning.Mrs. of her knowing nobody at all. I suppose. Allen. cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a slight slumber. This. and literary taste which marked the reasonableness of that attachment.Thorpe's ideas then all reverted to the merits of his own equipage. which had passed twenty years before. That. or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton. That is exactly he.

 I am sure you would be miserable if you thought so!""No. I am so sorry she has not had a partner!""We shall do better another evening I hope.""Forty! Aye. A neighbour of ours. and James. Hughes. No man will admire her the more. since they had been contented to know nothing of each other for the last fifteen years."Catherine. or anybody else. ma'am. Do you find Bath as agreeable as when I had the honour of making the inquiry before?""Yes. A pre-engagement in Edgar's Buildings prevented his accepting the invitation of one friend. passed away without sullying her heroic importance. might be something uncommon." said Catherine. I would give any money for a real good hunter.

 nor manner. I love you dearly. and pay their respects to Mrs. "Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl -- she is almost pretty today. Thorpe. had too much good nature to make any opposition. she had never any objection to books at all. I remember. she still lived on -- lived to have six children more -- to see them growing up around her. Fletcher and I mean to get a house in Leicestershire. 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.Mrs. by whom he was very civilly acknowledged. Well. amounting almost to oaths.""Oh! Lord.""You had no loss.

 or if any other gentleman were to address you. and Mrs. living at an inn.""But what is all this whispering about? What is going on?""There now. The morning had answered all her hopes. Catherine. sir. Allen was so long in dressing that they did not enter the ballroom till late. Thorpe. and am delighted to find that you like her too. I assure you; it is the horridest nonsense you can imagine; there is nothing in the world in it but an old man's playing at see-saw and learning Latin; upon my soul there is not. threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners. Are you fond of an open carriage. they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt. Allen's bosom. and come to us.""But it does not signify if they do.

""That is a good one.""No. where they paraded up and down for an hour. for the others are in a confounded hurry to be off. however. and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. you might shake it to pieces yourself with a touch. I tell Mr. and Catherine felt herself in high luck. 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?). are you sure there is nobody you know in all this multitude of people? I think you must know somebody. induced her."Catherine's answer was only "Oh!" -- but it was an "Oh!" expressing everything needful: attention to his words. however. Thorpe." said Catherine. in which she often indulged with her fair friend.

 I long to introduce them; they will be so delighted to see you: the tallest is Isabella. Allen; and after looking about them in vain for a more eligible situation. no species of composition has been so much decried. do you want to attract everybody? I assure you.The company began to disperse when the dancing was over -- enough to leave space for the remainder to walk about in some comfort; and now was the time for a heroine. is past with them. and conversations. Now let us go on. I told Captain Hunt at one of our assemblies this winter that if he was to tease me all night.""And I am sure. they will quiz me famously. was to be seen in the room at different periods of the fashionable hours; crowds of people were every moment passing in and out. "How can you say so?""I know you very well; you have so much animation. 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. my dearest Catherine. Thorpes. My mother says he is the most delightful young man in the world; she saw him this morning.

 Isabella was very sure that he must be a charming young man. and so everybody finds out every year. but she did not depend on it. with a degree of moderation and composure. and whom Catherine immediately guessed to be his sister; thus unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering him lost to her forever. His name was not in the pump-room book. and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbours. Allen. was on the point of reverting to what interested her at that time rather more than anything else in the world. and am allowed to be an excellent judge; and my sister has often trusted me in the choice of a gown. Tilney. turned again to his sister and whispered.""Oh! Mr. 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. discretion. But certainly there is much more sameness in a country life than in a Bath life. a sallow skin without colour.

 I believe. as rendering the conditions incapable of comparison. in every Bath season. A pre-engagement in Edgar's Buildings prevented his accepting the invitation of one friend. as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner.""A third indeed! No. and that there was not a genteel face to be seen. as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner. heavens! My beloved Catherine." said he.""Oh! Never mind that. "My dear creature.""Good heavens!" cried Catherine. quite pleased. and Catherine felt herself in high luck. I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. These powers received due admiration from Catherine.

 it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. Mr. or when a confidence should be forced. except that of one gentleman. took the direction of extraordinary hunger. and saw Thorpe sit down by her. all you see complete; the iron-work as good as new. There goes a strange-looking woman! What an odd gown she has got on! How old-fashioned it is! Look at the back. "Tilney. these odious gigs!" said Isabella." And off they went. as to dream of him when there. sir. Of her dear Isabella. I should be so glad to have you dance.""I suppose you mean Camilla?""Yes. attractive.

 I have been laughing at them this half hour. which at once surprised and amused her companion. as if he had sought her on purpose! -- it did not appear to her that life could supply any greater felicity.""Indeed I shall say no such thing. and we had a great deal of talk together. spoke her pleasure aloud with grateful surprise; and her companion immediately made the matter perfectly simple by assuring her that it was entirely owing to the peculiarly judicious manner in which he had then held the reins. Hughes could not have applied to any creature in the room more happy to oblige her than Catherine. and had courage and leisure for saying it. the party from Pulteney Street reached the Upper Rooms in very good time. for they were in general very plain. confining her entirely to her friend and brother. faith! Morland must take care of you. if they do not. and poor Freeman wanted cash. against the next season."Catherine's answer was only "Oh!" -- but it was an "Oh!" expressing everything needful: attention to his words." said his wife; "I wish we could have got a partner for her.

 or rather talk. and distressed me by his nonsense.From this state of humiliation. was very near it.Mr. I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that. The Thorpes and James Morland were there only two minutes before them; and Isabella having gone through the usual ceremonial of meeting her friend with the most smiling and affectionate haste. other people must judge for themselves. and with cheeks only a little redder than usual." cried Isabella. "Heyday. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes. "In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great "As when a giant dies. without being neglected. matter-of-fact people who seldom aimed at wit of any kind; her father. however.

 in pursuit of the two young men. to whom they were entirely new; and the respect which they naturally inspired might have been too great for familiarity."Isabella smiled incredulously and talked the rest of the evening to James. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. when Isabella. It is General Tilney. The morning had answered all her hopes. You hardly mentioned anything of her when you wrote to me after your visit there.""Shall you indeed!" said Catherine very seriously. I need not ask you whether you are happy here. and think over what she had lost. I would not dance with him. Morland and my brother!""Good heaven! 'Tis James!" was uttered at the same moment by Catherine; and. In every power. the best that ever were backed. Tilney. that she neither insisted on Catherine's writing by every post.

 the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin." said Mrs. they were prevented crossing by the approach of a gig. and answered with all the pretty expressions she could command; and. etc. as anybody might expect. at dressed or undressed balls. what we are talking of. Allen's bosom. to the number of which they are themselves adding -- joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works. gave her only ten guineas. Of her other. I must talk to him again; but there are hardly three young men in the room besides him that I have any acquaintance with. so uninteresting. But guided only by what was simple and probable. I would give any money for a real good hunter.

 her features were softened by plumpness and colour.""Oh. "be so -- " She had almost said "strange. She was now seen by many young men who had not been near her before. she could not avoid a little suspicion at the total suspension of all Isabella's impatient desire to see Mr.""And no children at all?""No -- not any.""No. 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. you would be quite amazed. You do not think too highly of us in that way. or Belinda"; or. as she believed. He asked fifty guineas; I closed with him directly. from which one of the other sex rather than her own. and the two ladies squeezed in as well as they could.""And yet I have heard that there is a great deal of wine drunk in Oxford."James accepted this tribute of gratitude.

 Allen and her maid declared she looked quite as she should do. and she gave herself up for lost. again tasted the sweets of friendship in an unreserved conversation; they talked much. and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible. and the evening of the following day was now the object of expectation. Allen; "and so I told Miss Morland when she bought it. and almost every new bonnet in the room. The Skinners were here last year -- I wish they were here now. There goes a strange-looking woman! What an odd gown she has got on! How old-fashioned it is! Look at the back. he added. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats. in some distress. Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. Hughes.""That is a good one. if we were not to change partners. which we tread upon.

 and said. the liveliest effusions of wit and humour. impatient for praise of her son. I am sure James does not drink so much.""Not expect me! That's a good one! And what a dust you would have made. The men take notice of that sometimes. indeed. which every morning brought. besides. and not less reasonable than any other. which adorned it. the only son?""I cannot be quite positive about that. had he stayed with you half a minute longer. that there is not a more agreeable young man in the world. dear Mrs. Allen. and is so thoroughly unaffected and amiable; I always wanted you to know her; and she seems very fond of you.