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The next day afforded no opportunity for the proposed examination of the mysterious apart and afternoon service was required by the general in exercise abroad or eating cold reat as was Catherine's curiosity, her courage was not equal to a wish of exploring theht of the sky between six and seven o'clock, or by the yet er illumination of a treacherous la to interest her iant monument to the memory of Mrs Tilney, which immediately fronted the fa retained; and the perusal of the highly strained epitaph, in which every virtue was ascribed to her by the inconsolable husband, who must have been in some way or other her destroyer, affected her even to tears

That the general, having erected such a monue, and yet that he could sit so boldly collected within its view, maintain so elevated an air, look so fearlessly around, nay, that he should even enter the church, seemed wonderful to Catherine Not, however, that ht not be produced She could re on fro who of huious retirement closed their black career The erection of the ree affect her doubts of Mrs Tilney's actual decease Were she even to descend into the family vault where her ashes were supposed to slumber, were she to behold the coffin in which they were said to be enclosed--what could it avail in such a case? Catherine had read too much not to be perfectly aware of the ease hich a waxen figure ht be introduced, and a supposititious funeral carried on

The succeeding eneral's early walk, ill-timed as it was in every other vieas favourable here; and when she knew him to be out of the house, she directly proposed to Miss Tilney the accoe her; and Catherine re her as they went of another promise, their first visit in consequence was to the portrait in her bed-chamber It represented a very lovely wo, so far, the expectations of its new observer; but they were not in every respect answered, for Catherine had depended uponwith features, hair, coe, if not of Henry's, of Eleanor's--the only portraits of which she had been in the habit of thinking, bearing always an equal reseenerations But here she was obliged to look and consider and study for a likeness She contemplated it, however, in spite of this drawback, with er interest, would have left it unwillingly