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"It is all one tohis horse, they were on their way back to Bath

"If your brother had not got such a d--beast to drive," said he soon afterwards, "we ht have done it very well My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to hi him in to that cursed broken-winded jade's pace Morland is a fool for not keeping a horse and gig of his own"

"No, he is not," said Catherine warmly, "for I am sure he could not afford it"

"And why cannot he afford it?"

"Because he has not h"

"And whose fault is that?"

"Nobody's, that I know of" Thorpe then said so in the loud, incoherent way to which he had often recourse, about its being a d--thing to be miserly; and that if people who rolled in s, he did not knoho could, which Catherine did not even endeavour to understand Disappointed of as to have been the consolation for her first disappointreeable herself or to find her companion so; and they returned to Pulteney Street without her speaking twenty words

As she entered the house, the footentleman and lady had called and inquired for her a fewoff; that, when he told theone out with Mr

Thorpe, the lady had asked whether anyno, had felt for a card, but said she had none about her, and went away Pondering over these heart-rending tidings, Catherine walked slowly upstairs At the head of the the reason of their speedy return, said, "I alad you are coe, wild scheether at Thorpe's Catherine was disturbed and out of spirits; but Isabella seemed to find a pool of commerce, in the fate of which she shared, by private partnership with Morland, a very good equivalent for the quiet and country air of an inn at Clifton Her satisfaction, too, in not being at the Lower Rooms was spokenthere! How glad I ast them! I wonder whether it will be a full ball or not! They have not begun dancing yet I would not be there for all the world