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I wear nothing but purple now: I know I look hideous in it, but no matter--it is your dear brother's favourite colour Lose no ti to him and to me, Who ever am, etc

Such a strain of shallow artifice could not impose even upon Catherine Its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her from the very first She was asha ever loved her Her professions of attach as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent "Write to James on her behalf! No, Jaain"

On Henry's arrival from Woodston, she ratulating the aloud the nation When she had finished it--"So much for Isabella," she cried, "and for all our intimacy! She must think me an idiot, or she could not have written so; but perhaps this has served to make her character better known to me than mine is to her I see what she has been about She is a vain coquette, and her tricks have not answered I do not believe she had ever any regard either for James or for me, and I wish I had never known her"

"It will soon be as if you never had," said Henry

"There is but one thing that I cannot understand I see that she has had designs on Captain Tilney, which have not succeeded; but I do not understand what Captain Tilney has been about all this time Why should he pay her such attentions as to make her quarrel with my brother, and then fly off himself?"

"I have very little to say for Frederick's motives, such as I believe them to have been He has his vanities as well as Miss Thorpe, and the chief difference is, that, having a stronger head, they have not yet injured himself If the effect of his behaviour does not justify him with you, we had better not seek after the cause"

"Then you do not suppose he ever really cared about her?"

"I am persuaded that he never did"

"And only made believe to do so for mischief's sake?"

Henry bowed his assent

"Well, then, I h it has turned out so well for us, I do not like hireat harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?"