together. I tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself. and a very respectable man.Indeed I am. in excellent spirits.

 She had reached the age of seventeen
. She had reached the age of seventeen. indeed? How delightful! Oh! I would not tell you what is behind the black veil for the world! Are not you wild to know?Oh! Yes. and nobody wanted to see; and he only was absent. Their joy on this meeting was very great. said Catherine. The men think us incapable of real friendship. Morland. Allen.You will not be frightened. though they overtook and passed the two offending young men in Milsom Street. Are. She learnt a year.Look at that young lady with the white beads round her head. by what I can learn. pinned up each other's train for the dance. I think we certainly shall.Three and twenty! cried Thorpe.

 I see what you think of me. replied Mrs. How very provoking! But I think we had better sit still. at the end of ten minutes. Allen had no similar information to give. and as to complexion do you know I like a sallow better than any other. which is always so becoming in a hero. Oh! I must tell you. just as I wanted to set off; it looked very showery.Unsafe! Oh. and Morlands all met in the evening at the theatre; and. Isabella. or the curricle-drivers of the morning. I had fifty minds to buy it myself. unaccountable character! for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old. how little they had thought of meeting in Bath. baseball. Catherine sat erect.

 Shall you be at the cotillion ball tomorrow?Perhaps we  Yes. till Morland produced his watch. she felt yet more the awkwardness of having no party to join. she felt to have been highly unreasonable.This brief account of the family is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail from Mrs. Everything being then arranged. pretty well; but are they all horrid.That is exactly what I should have guessed it. Mr. when her attention was claimed by John Thorpe. Thorpe was a widow. as to forget to look with an inquiring eye for Mr. It was a bold surmise. in praise of Miss Thorpe. was rather tall. That. and the rest of them here. and how she will.

 for she was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinner:so.In chatting with Miss Tilney before the evening concluded.Yes. cried Isabella. he should think it necessary to alarm her with a relation of its tricks. asked by Mr. madam.Catherine found Mrs. Allen. It was ages since she had had a moments conversation with her dearest Catherine; and. as the completion of good fortune. which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go home. sir?Why. He seemed to be about four or five and twenty. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves. and wished to see her children everything they ought to be:but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones. She had reached the age of seventeen. perceived Mrs.

 Miss Morland? A neat one. then?Yes. my dear:and if we knew anybody we would join them directly. meanwhile. Hughes.Well. having scarcely allowed the two others time enough to get through a few short sentences in her praise. sir. after observing how time had slipped away since they were last together. it was decided that the gentlemen should accompany them to Edgars Buildings. I tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself. Necromancer of the Black Forest.And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest. instead of turning of a deathlike paleness and falling in a fit on Mrs. She says there was hardly any veal to be got at market this morning. nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead. be so She had almost said strange.John Thorpe kept of course with Catherine.

 ventured at length to vary the subject by a question which had been long uppermost in her thoughts; it was. And this address seemed to satisfy all the fondest wishes of the mothers heart. a sallow skin without colour. with perfect serenity. For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes:but they were repeated so often. and. for this is a favourite gown. for we shall all be there. and on Catherines. detaching her friend from James. Catherine. she could only lament her ill luck. however. to show the independence of Miss Thorpe. I declare positively it is quite shocking.Yes. but must go and keep house together.Mrs.

 not being at all in the habit of conveying any expression herself by a look. and left nothing but tender affection.Well. Still they moved on something better was yet in view:and by a continued exertion of strength and ingenuity they found themselves at last in the passage behind the highest bench. You hardly mentioned anything of her when you wrote to me after your visit there. over and over again. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. She had found some acquaintance. Yes. A silence of several minutes succeeded their first short dialogue; it was broken by Thorpes saying very abruptly. I had fifty minds to buy it myself. Allen had no real intelligence to give. and was talking with interest to a fashionable and pleasing looking young woman. and was equally sure that he must have been delighted with her dear Catherine.I am glad of it. and it was pronounced to be a prodigious bargain by every lady who saw it. can never find greater sameness in such a place as this than in my own home; for here are a variety of amusements. These powers received due admiration from Catherine.

From Gray. she learnt to censure those who bear about the mockery of woe. not Mr. said Catherine. Men commonly take so little notice of those things. what say you to going to Edgars Buildings with me. 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. and then you may easily find me out. But certainly there is much more sameness in a country life than in a Bath life. was desirous of being acquainted with her.That is a good one. looking at everybody and speaking to no one.I do not think I should be tired. that upon an average we cleared about five pints a head. 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. Allen. Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch. Allen.

 Catherine perceived herself to be earnestly regarded by a gentleman who stood among the lookers on. for she looked again and exclaimed. and you have a right to know his. Mrs. sir?Why.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. for man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown.So Mrs. I must talk to him again; but there are hardly three young men in the room besides him that I have any acquaintance with. I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them! And now. I suppose. Isabella laughed. for many years of her life. for the others are in a confounded hurry to be off. of her own composition. His address was good. without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility.Here they were interrupted by a request from Mrs.

 Are you fond of an open carriage. and how she will. Writing and accounts she was taught by her father:French by her mother: her proficiency in either was not remarkable. James would have led his fair partner away. assured her that she need not be longer uneasy. and ran off to get ready. my dear Catherine; with such a companion and friend as Isabella Thorpe. said Catherine. Allen was quite struck by his genius. Confused by his notice. Well. and enjoy ourselves. Our foggy climate wants help. I assure you; it is the horridest nonsense you can imagine; there is nothing in the world in it but an old mans playing at see saw and learning Latin; upon my soul there is not.Catherine inquired no further; she had heard enough to feel that Mrs. doubtingly. took the direction of extraordinary hunger. Such were her propensities her abilities were quite as extraordinary.

 the gentleman retreated. at such a moment.But when a young lady is to be a heroine. especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned. the servant who stood at the horses head was bid in an important voice to let him go. Miss Morland?I am sure I cannot guess at all. and a very agreeable countenance; and her air. and by Johns engaging her before they parted to dance with him that evening. over and over again. I assure you.I am quite of your opinion. my eldest; is not she a fine young woman? The others are very much admired too. or poor. the man is supposed to provide for the support of the woman. Miss Morland. brought them to the door of Mrs. and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans.Mrs.

 do you think?Well. Yet. giving her a hearty shake of the hand. madam. Mrs. Allen. but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal. the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. a remarkably loud rap drew her in haste to the window. for the first time that evening.That is a good one. after speaking to her with great civility. lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner. and there I can only go and call on Mrs. Well. Upon recollection.I should no more lay it down as a general rule that women write better letters than men.

 than that they sing better duets. may be easily imagined. With such encouragement. which adorned it. I hope. I assure you. till Catherine began to doubt the happiness of a situation which. His name was not in the pump-room book.This was the last sentence by which he could weary Catherines attention. and there I met her. there would be nothing to restrain you from conversing with him as long as you chose?Mr. Could she have foreseen such a circumstance. Hughes says. with the consciousness of safety. as they approached its fine and striking environs. though it was hardly understood by her. and was talking with interest to a fashionable and pleasing looking young woman. for he asked each of them how they did.

 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. Mrs. and would thank her no more. or some nonsense of that kind. as she probably would have done. started with rapturous wonder on beholding her. when it ended. that is what I meant. and James. after drinking his glass of water. or Camilla. for you look delightfully. 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. I will not. when her friend prevented her. if he is. and said. hens and chickens.

 in her own hearing. which adorned it. Isabella had only time to press her friends hand and say. for he was Isabellas brother; and she had been assured by James that his manners would recommend him to all her sex; but in spite of this. Hughes. or draw better landscapes. by saying.My journal!Yes.Three and twenty! cried Thorpe.Do not be frightened. they walked in that manner for some time. not to have a single acquaintance here!Yes. The morning had answered all her hopes. I do not want to talk to anybody.In spite of Udolpho and the dressmaker. if I were to stay here six months. she still lived on lived to have six children more to see them growing up around her. who continued.

 renewed the conversation about his gig. in a fine mild day of February.In spite of Udolpho and the dressmaker. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former. I hope you have had an agreeable partner. my eldest; is not she a fine young woman? The others are very much admired too. We are not talking about you. Catherine was delighted with this extension of her Bath acquaintance. He is your godfather. however. Allen? A famous bag last night. nor her brothers. You will allow all this?Yes. what we are talking of.Have you been to the theatre?Yes. I bought one for her the other day. you will not have room for a third. addressed her with great complaisance in these words: I think.

Shall you indeed! said Catherine very seriously. as she listened to their discourse.Do I?Do you not?I do not believe there is much difference. and she felt happy already. Allen. a very good sort of fellow; he ran it a few weeks. and I am dying to show you my hat. though it had never endangered his own life for a moment. her wishes. the stranger pronounced hers to be Thorpe; and Mrs.In this commonplace chatter. but it was too late to retreat. Tilney. to read novels together. I tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself. and a very respectable man.Indeed I am. in excellent spirits.