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Under these unproan It was performed with suitable quietness and uneventful safety Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce the occurred than a fear, on Mrs Allen's side, of having once left her clogs behind her at an inn, and that fortunately proved to be groundless

They arrived at Bath Catherine was all eager delight--her eyes were here, there, everywhere, as they approached its fine and striking environs, and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel She was come to be happy, and she felt happy already

They were soon settled in cos in Pulteney Street

It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs Allen, that the reader e in what eneral distress of the work, and how she will, probably, contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last voluarity, or jealousy--whether by intercepting her letters, ruining her character, or turning her out of doors

Mrs Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other e any h to enius, accoreat deal of quiet, inactive good te turn ofthe choice of a sensible, intelligent man like Mr Allen In one respect she was ad as fond of going everywhere and seeing everything herself as any young lady could be Dress was her passion She had afine; and our heroine's entree into life could not take place till after three or four days had been spent in learning as mostly worn, and her chaperone was provided with a dress of the newest fashion Catherine too made soed, the i came which was to usher her into the Upper Rooms Her hair was cut and dressed by the best hand, her clothes put on with care, and both Mrs Allen and her maid declared she looked quite as she should do With such encourageh the crowd As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it