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"With me, dear Isabella!"

"Nay,quite absurd! Modesty, and all that, is very well in its way, but really a little co I have no idea of being so overstrained! It is fishing for compliments His attentions were such as a child must have noticed And it was but half an hour before he left Bath that you gave hieood as made you an offer, and that you received his advances in the kindest way; and noants s to you So it is in vain to affect ignorance"

Catherine, with all the earnestness of truth, expressed her astonishht of Mr Thorpe's being in love with her, and the consequent ie him "As to any attentions on his side, I do declare, upon my honour, I never was sensible of thelike it, there must be some unaccountableof that kind, you know! And, as I ever wish to be believed, I solemnly protest that no syllable of such a nature ever passed between us The last half hour before he went away! It must be all and completely a "

"But that you certainly did, for you spent the whole s--it was the day your father's consent came--and I am pretty sure that you and John were alone in the parlour some time before you left the house"

"Are you? Well, if you say it, it was so, I dare say--but for the life ofwith you, and seeing him as well as the rest--but that ere ever alone for fiveabout, for whateverno recollection of it, that I never thought, nor expected, nor wished for anything of the kind froard for me--but indeed it has been quite unintentional on my side; I never had the smallest idea of it Pray undeceive hi his pardon--that is--I do not knohat I ought to say--but make him understand what I mean, in the properest way I would not speak disrespectfully of a brother of yours, Isabella, I am sure; but you know very well that if I could think of one man more than another--he is not the person" Isabella was silent "My dear friend, you ry with me I cannot suppose your brother cares so very much about me And, you knoe shall still be sisters"