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"My brother does know it," was Henry's answer

"Does he? Then why does he stay here?"

Heelse; but she eagerly continued, "Why do not you persuade hier he stays, the worse it will be for him at last Pray advise him for his own sake, and for everybody's sake, to leave Bath directly Absence will in tiain; but he can have no hope here, and it is only staying to be miserable"

Henry smiled and said, "I am sure my brother would not wish to do that"

"Then you will persuade hio away?"

"Persuasion is not at command; but pardon me, if I cannot even endeavour to persuade hied He knohat he is about, and must be his own master"

"No, he does not knohat he is about," cried Catherine; "he does not know the pain he is giving my brother Not that James has ever told me so, but I am sure he is very uncomfortable"

"And are you sure it is ?"

"Yes, very sure"

"Is it my brother's attentions to Miss Thorpe, or Miss Thorpe's adives the pain?"

"Is not it the sae a difference No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment"

Catherine blushed for her friend, and said, "Isabella is wrong

But I am sure she cannot mean to torment, for she is very much attached to my brother She has been in love with him ever since they first met, and while my father's consent was uncertain, she fretted herself almost into a fever You know she must be attached to him"

"I understand: she is in love with James, and flirts with Frederick"

"Oh! no, not flirts A woman in love with one man cannot flirt with another"

"It is probable that she will neither love so well, nor flirt so well, as she ive up a little"

After a short pause, Catherine resumed with, "Then you do not believe Isabella so very much attached to my brother?"

"I can have no opinion on that subject"