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"Have I offended the general?" said Catherine in a faltering voice

"Alas! For hter, all that I know, all that I answer for, is that you can have given hireatly discomposed; I have seldo has now occurred to ruffle it in an uncoree; some disappointment, some vexation, which just at this moment seems important, but which I can hardly suppose you to have any concern in, for how is it possible?"

It ith pain that Catherine could speak at all; and it was only for Eleanor's sake that she attempted it "I am sure," said she, "I a I would willingly have done But do not be unhappy, Eleanor An engagement, you know, must be kept I aht have written home But it is of very little consequence"

"I hope, I earnestly hope, that to your real safety it will be of none; but to everything else it is of the greatest consequence: to comfort, appearance, propriety, to your family, to the world

Were your friends, the Allens, still in Bath, you o to them with comparative ease; a few hours would take you there; but a journey of seventy e, alone, unattended!"

"Oh, the journey is nothing Do not think about that And if we are to part, a few hours sooner or later, you know, makes no difference I can be ready by seven Let me be called in ti it better for each that they should avoid any further conversation, now left her with, "I shall see you in theheart needed relief In Eleanor's presence friendship and pride had equally restrained her tears, but no sooner was she gone than they burst forth in torrents Turned from the house, and in such a way! Without any reason that could justify, any apology that could atone for the abruptness, the rudeness, nay, the insolence of it Henry at a distance--not able even to bid him farewell Every hope, every expectation fro? Who could say when they ain? And all this by such a man as General Tilney, so polite, so well bred, and heretofore so particularly fond of her!