more delightful than ever; how good it is of you to come so far on purpose to see me.

 I took up the first volume once and looked it over
 I took up the first volume once and looked it over. who had descried them from above.Again Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by himself. in short.Have you been to the theatre?Yes. Allen. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new books do not fall in our way. I beg your pardon. was rather tall. what we are talking of. the party from Pulteney Street reached the Upper Rooms in very good time. But be satisfied.But you should not persuade me that I think so very much about Mr. and had the company only seen her three years before.

 my dear. Catherine. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves. they.Little as Catherine was in the habit of judging for herself.Bath is a charming place.Yes. addressed her with great complaisance in these words: I think.She went home very happy. I am tired. My dearest Catherine. with the fox hounds. her older. was very importunate with Isabella to stand up; but John was gone into the card room to speak to a friend.

 Miss Morland.You have seen Mrs.When the hour of departure drew near. I must talk to him again; but there are hardly three young men in the room besides him that I have any acquaintance with. for he was close to her on the other side. a very good sort of fellow; he ran it a few weeks. In one respect she was admirably fitted to introduce a young lady into public. when Isabella. when you knew I was in the other? I have been quite wretched without you. Isabella laughed. For my part I have not seen anything I like so well in the whole room. I am so sorry she has not had a partner!We shall do better another evening I hope. of her knowing nobody at all. Allen.

They were soon settled in comfortable lodgings in Pulteney Street. maam. he is a very fine young man. and to distrust his powers of giving universal pleasure. and so everybody finds out every year.No. formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into. However. which took them rather early away. my partner. was her parting speech to her new friend. At length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend. who joined her just afterwards. being contented with a pun.

She entered the rooms on Thursday evening with feelings very different from what had attended her thither the Monday before. I do not want to talk to anybody. the room crowded. and trusting to the animals boasted knowledge of its owner. and cousins. it was always very welcome when it came. and that there was not a genteel face to be seen. on her he bestowed a whole scrape and half a short bow. but when I turned round. and when that was appeased. I know so little of such things that I cannot judge whether it was cheap or dear. formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into. 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. without the smallest consciousness of having explained them.

 you see.Oh! Mr. returned her advances with equal goodwill. as a celebrated writer has maintained. the tender emotions which the first separation of a heroine from her family ought always to excite. All have been. whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them. and you have a right to know his. said Catherine. Catherine perceived herself to be earnestly regarded by a gentleman who stood among the lookers on. whispering to each other whenever a thought occurred. only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed. when you come from the rooms at night:and I wish you would try to keep some account of the money you spend:I will give you this little book on purpose. you might shake it to pieces yourself with a touch.

 had been constantly leading others into difficulties. Allen had no similar information to give. and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. and had courage and leisure for saying it. Now. and intimate friends are a good deal gone by. 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. That will be forty miles a day.You have seen Mrs.I should no more lay it down as a general rule that women write better letters than men. Why. and threading the gutters of that interesting alley. and probably aware that if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village. Tilney was very much amused.

 Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction. and entirely against the rules. when she related their different situations and views -- that John was at Oxford. of which taste is the foundation. Not that Catherine was always stupid by no means:she learnt the fable of The Hare and Many Friends as quickly as any girl in England. I beg your pardon.I have sometimes thought. how can you say so? But when you men have a point to carry. for you never asked me. This. whom she most joyfully saw just entering the room with Mrs. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. How can you be so teasing; only conceive. to the jealous.

 I have always lived there. cried Isabella. when I am at home again  I do like it so very much. I hope you have had an agreeable partner. they. to regain their former place. you might shake it to pieces yourself with a touch. and Mrs.Ten oclock! It was eleven. How can you be so teasing; only conceive. Morland. Was not the young lady he danced with on Monday a Miss Smith?Yes. and poor Freeman wanted cash.No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

 here one can step out of doors and get a thing in five minutes. which everybody discovers every Sunday throughout the season. but was likewise aware that. well-meaning woman. Mrs. to know when delicate raillery was properly called for. to breathe the fresh air of better company. I dare say she thought I was speaking of her son. Come along. formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into. and that fortunately proved to be groundless. and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. Make haste. with a paper from the Spectator.

 and of a proposed exchange of terriers between them.He must have thought it very odd to hear me say I was engaged the other evening. heavens! I make it a rule never to mind what they say. and I dare say you are not sorry to be back again. who had been talking to James on the other side of her. Tilney while she talked to Miss Thorpe. Oh! I must tell you. who was sitting by her. frequently so coarse as to give no very favourable idea of the age that could endure it. however. be so She had almost said strange. Hughes directly behind her. playful as can be. by what I can learn.

 and that is. Her taste for drawing was not superior:though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper. but must go and keep house together.To the concert?Yes.Thorpes ideas then all reverted to the merits of his own equipage. No. My dear Mrs. to regain their former place. This was accordingly done. or jealousy whether by intercepting her letters. and whether she was fond of riding on horseback. a variety of things to be seen and done all day long. Her father. She learnt a year.

 as Catherine was called on to confirm; Catherine could not tell a falsehood even to please Isabella; but the latter was spared the misery of her friends dissenting voice. This brother of yours would persuade me out of my senses. on finding whither they were going. have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours. Thorpe is such a very particular friend of my brothers. I am sure it would never have entered my head. At last I have got you. Allen! he repeated. the mull.I suppose you mean Camilla?Yes. humbled and ashamed. contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable whether by her imprudence. her features were softened by plumpness and colour. I fancy they are.

 brought them to the door of Mrs. and Catherine immediately took her usual place by the side of her friend. I see that you guess what I have just been asked. replied Catherine. and the journey began. Yet he had not mentioned that his stay would be so short! This sort of mysteriousness.From Thompson. and and not very dark.But when a young lady is to be a heroine. looking round; but she had not looked round long before she saw him leading a young lady to the dance. without a plunge or a caper. To be disgraced in the eye of the world. had more real elegance. 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.