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She, who had so longed to be in an abbey! Now, there was nothing so char co like Fullerton, but better: Fullerton had its faults, but Woodston probably had none If Wednesday should ever coht be reasonably looked for It came--it was fine--and Catherine trod on air By ten o'clock, the chaise and four conveyed the two froreeable drive of ale and populous village, in a situation not unpleasant Catherine was ashaeneral seey necessary for the flatness of the country, and the size of the village; but in her heart she preferred it to any place she had ever been at, and looked with great ade, and at all the little chandler's shops which they passed At the further end of the village, and tolerably disengaged froe, a new-built substantial stone house, with its seates; and, as they drove up to the door, Henry, with the friends of his solitude, a large Newfoundland puppy and two or three terriers, was ready to receive and make much of them

Catherine's mind was too full, as she entered the house, for her either to observe or to say a great deal; and, till called on by the general for her opinion of it, she had very little idea of the roo round it then, she perceived in a moment that it was the uarded to say so, and the coldness of her praise disappointed hiood house," said he "We are not co it as a e, small and confined, we allow, but decent, perhaps, and habitable; and altogether not inferior to the generality; or, in other words, I believe there are few country parsonages in England half so good It may admit of improvement, however Far be it fro in reason--a bow thrown out, perhaps--though, between ourselves, if there is one thing more than another my aversion, it is a patched-on bow"

Catherine did not hear enough of this speech to understand or be pained by it; and other subjects being studiously brought forward and supported by Henry, at the same time that a tray full of refresheneral was shortly restored to his complacency, and Catherine to all her usual ease of spirits