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The progress of Catherine's unhappiness fro was as follows It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with everybody about her, while she reht on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go ho in Pulteney Street, took the direction of extraordinary hunger, and when that was appeased, changed into an earnest longing to be in bed; such was the extreme point of her distress; for when there she immediately fell into a sound sleep which lasted nine hours, and from which she awoke perfectly revived, in excellent spirits, with fresh hopes and fresh schemes The first wish of her heart was to improve her acquaintance with Miss Tilney, and almost her first resolution, to seek her for that purpose, in the pump-room at noon In the pump-room, one so newly arrived in Bathshe had already found so favourable for the discovery of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for secret discourses and unlied to expect another friend fro thus settled, she sat quietly down to her book after breakfast, resolving to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very little incommoded by the remarks and ejaculations of Mrs Allen, whose vacancy ofwere such, that as she never talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and, therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her needle or broke her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon her gown, she must observe it aloud, whether there were anyone at leisure to answer her or not At about half past twelve, a remarkably loud rap drew her in haste to the , and scarcely had she ties at the door, in the first only a servant, her brother driving Miss Thorpe in the second, before John Thorpe ca out, "Well, Miss Morland, here I a? We could not come before; the old devil of a coachot into, and now it is ten thousand to one but they break down before we are out of the street How do you do, Mrs Allen? A faht, was not it? Come, Miss Morland, be quick, for the others are in a confounded hurry to be off They want to get their tumble over"