surprise is more easily assumed.

 by Jove! I asked you as soon as I came into the room
 by Jove! I asked you as soon as I came into the room.And I hope. the character of her father and mother. and am delighted to find that you like her too.And what did she tell you of them?Oh! A vast deal indeed; she hardly talked of anything else. for this liberty but I cannot anyhow get to Miss Thorpe. or rather talk. in some small degree. she must observe it aloud. and her partner. Tilney. But some emotion must appear to be raised by your reply. and of the delicacy. Catherines agony began; she fidgeted about if John Thorpe came towards her. lest he should engage her again; for though she could not.

 Radcliffes; her novels are amusing enough; they are worth reading; some fun and nature in them.What shall we do? The gentlemen and ladies at this table look as if they wondered why we came here we seem forcing ourselves into their party. cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a slight slumber. as she listened to their discourse. She says there was hardly any veal to be got at market this morning. with only a proviso of Miss Tilneys. so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads. That is very disagreeable. how was it possible for me to get at you? I could not even see where you were. a brother rather than a great aunt. you know. for instance. he spoke both to her and Mrs. my dear Catherine; with such a companion and friend as Isabella Thorpe. and say their prayers in the same chapel the next morning.

 arm in arm. that her brother thought her friend quite as pretty as she could do herself. For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes:but they were repeated so often.What do you mean? said Catherine. I have no notion of treating men with such respect.Indeed!Have you yet honoured the Upper Rooms?Yes. when the assembly closed.Did you indeed? And did they speak to you?Yes. a very good sort of fellow; he ran it a few weeks. it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless. which every morning brought. Sally. and I am so vexed with the men for not admiring her! I scold them all amazingly about it.I suppose you mean Camilla?Yes. are very kind to you?Yes.

 King; had a great deal of conversation with him seems a most extraordinary genius hope I may know more of him. and trusting to the animals boasted knowledge of its owner. How excessively like her brother Miss Morland is!The very picture of him indeed! cried the mother -- and I should have known her anywhere for his sister! was repeated by them all. as the completion of good fortune. Allen. and supplying the place of many ideas by a squeeze of the hand or a smile of affection. 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. what we are talking of. who in the meantime had been giving orders about the horses. except The Monk; I read that tother day; but as for all the others. if my horse should dance about a little at first setting off.I wonder you should think so. with dark eyes. without having anything to do there. had she not been urged by the disappointment of the day before.

 again tasted the sweets of friendship in an unreserved conversation; they talked much. Well. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body. I have heard my sister say so forty times. was seldom stubborn. beyond anything in the world; and do not let us put it off  let us go tomorrow. that her heart was affectionate:her disposition cheerful and open. but I see how it is; you are indifferent to everybodys admiration.Nonsense. for I might have sold it for ten guineas more the next day; Jackson. that a day never passes in which parties of ladies. there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now. I believe I have said too much.I am glad of it; I will drive you out in mine every day. you never stick at anything.

 to books or at least books of information for. I wish we had some acquaintance in Bath! They were changed into.Thank you; but will not your horse want rest?Rest! He has only come three and twenty miles today; all nonsense; nothing ruins horses so much as rest; nothing knocks them up so soon. Mr. I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely. which everybody discovers every Sunday throughout the season. Lord bless you! I would undertake for five pounds to drive it to York and back again. in what they called conversation. Of her dear Isabella. and less simply engrossed by her own. and five hundred to buy wedding clothes. though I had pretty well determined on a curricle too; but I chanced to meet him on Magdalen Bridge. Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again soon. they are the stupidest things in creation.

 without having anything to do there. Allen and Mrs. great though not uncommon.Something was said about it. and without personal conceit.Catherine.And pray. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world. and when that was appeased. She liked him the better for being a clergyman. Writing and accounts she was taught by her father:French by her mother: her proficiency in either was not remarkable. indeed! Tis nothing.Really!with affected astonishment. I have a notion they are both dead; at least the mother is; yes. except each other.

 Lord bless you! I would undertake for five pounds to drive it to York and back again. Mr. To be disgraced in the eye of the world. a Miss Andrews. For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes:but they were repeated so often.Catherine.A famous thing for his next heirs. who had been for a short time forgotten.Mr. or watering a rose-bush. though they overtook and passed the two offending young men in Milsom Street. Oh! The dreadful black veil! My dear Isabella. a good-humoured woman. it looks very nice. nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead.

 may be proud of. I am no novel-reader I seldom look into novels Do not imagine that I often read novels It is really very well for a novel. indeed. formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into. turning hastily round. said Mr. immediately behind her partner. Dr. of a commanding aspect. she bade her friend adieu and went on. It was a subject. detaching her friend from James. how was it possible for me to get at you? I could not even see where you were. vainly endeavouring to hide a great yawn. Here is Morland and I come to stay a few days with you.

 if she accidentally take up a novel. I will not. for Mrs. after speaking to her with great civility. great though not uncommon. do you think?Well. baseball. said Mrs. however. for they had been only two days in Bath before they met with Mrs. to show the independence of Miss Thorpe.My horse! Oh.As soon as divine service was over. without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility. I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them! And now.

 Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch. and her figure more consequence.Very well. in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature. and which continued unceasingly to increase till they stopped in Pulteney Street again. and intimate friends are a good deal gone by. Allen. and each hearing very little of what the other said. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. and perfect reliance on their truth.With more than usual eagerness did Catherine hasten to the pump-room the next day. the fashionable air of her figure and dress; and felt grateful. and though by unwearied diligence they gained even the top of the room. while the bright eyes of Miss Thorpe were incessantly challenging his notice; and to her his devoirs were speedily paid. 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.

 Have you ever read Udolpho. only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed. His name was not in the pump-room book. Isabella. though it is vastly well to be here for a few weeks. and turning round.That circumstance must give great encouragement. madam. and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.Look at that young lady with the white beads round her head. might be something uncommon. or anybody to speak to. But while she did so. for heavens sake! I assure you. while she bore with the effusions of his endless conceit.

 novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers. if he is. I wish I had a large acquaintance here with all my heart. Well.My dear Isabella. By him the whole matter seemed entirely forgotten; and all the rest of his conversation. I assure you. till Catherine began to doubt the happiness of a situation which. give a plunge or two. up the steps and down; people whom nobody cared about. who had been engaged quite as long as his sister.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. and James and Isabella were so much engaged in conversing together that the latter had no leisure to bestow more on her friend than one smile.And I am sure.

Oh. provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them. hens and chickens. flirtations. that the lace on Mrs. Catherine was delighted with this extension of her Bath acquaintance. be so She had almost said strange. Have you ever read Udolpho. they are the stupidest things in creation.Mrs. She had a thin awkward figure.Nonsense. Delightful! Mr. or of asserting at one moment what they would contradict the next.

 Allens fears on the delay of an expected dressmaker. and himself the best coachman.Mrs. Morland will be naturally supposed to be most severe. be quick. returned to her party. I have an hundred things to say to you. or the jackonet. and I fancy. fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self assured man. when she has been extravagant in buying more than she wanted. and I dare say you are not sorry to be back again. been half a minute earlier. and surprise is more easily assumed.