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From this ti people; and Catherine found, with soreed in considering Isabella's want of consequence and fortune as likely to throw great difficulties in the way of her eneral would, upon this ground alone, independent of the objection that ainst her character, oppose the connection, turned her feelings nificant, and perhaps as portionless, as Isabella; and if the heir of the Tilney property had not grandeur and wealth enough in hier brother to rest? The very painful reflections to which this thought led could only be dispersed by a dependence on the effect of that particular partiality, which, as she was given to understand by his words as well as his actions, she had froeneral; and by a recollection of soenerous and disinterested sentiments on the subject of money, which she had more than once heard him utter, and which tempted her to think his disposition in such matters misunderstood by his children

They were so fully convinced, however, that their brother would not have the courage to apply in person for his father's consent, and so repeatedly assured her that he had never in his life been less likely to coer than at the present time, that she suffered her mind to be at ease as to the necessity of any sudden removal of her own But as it was not to be supposed that Captain Tilney, whenever he ive his father any just idea of Isabella's conduct, it occurred to her as highly expedient that Henry should lay the whole business before hieneral by that means to form a cool and iround than inequality of situations She proposed it to hierly as she had expected

"No," said he, "thened, and Frederick's confession of folly need not be forestalled He must tell his own story"

"But he will tell only half of it"

"A quarter would be enough"

A day or two passed away and brought no tidings of Captain Tilney

His brother and sister knew not what to think Sometimes it appeared to them as if his silence would be the natural result of the suspected engagement, and at others that it holly incoh offended every , was free fro solicitude than that of er pass pleasantly He often expressed his uneasiness on this head, feared the saust her with the place, wished the Lady Frasers had been in the country, talked every now and then of having a large party to dinner, and once or twice began even to calculate the nuhbourhood But then it was such a dead tiame, and the Lady Frasers were not in the country