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Catherine herself could not be norant at the time of all this, than his own children Henry and Eleanor, perceiving nothing in her situation likely to engage their father's particular respect, had seen with astonishment the suddenness, continuance, and extent of his attention; and though latterly, from some hints which had acco everything in his power to attach her, Henry was convinced of his father's believing it to be an advantageous connection, it was not till the late explanation at Northanger that they had the smallest idea of the false calculations which had hurried hieneral had learnt froested theain in town, and who, under the influence of exactly opposite feelings, irritated by Catherine's refusal, and yet more by the failure of a very recent endeavour to accomplish a reconciliation between Morland and Isabella, convinced that they were separated forever, and spurning a friendship which could be no longer serviceable, hastened to contradict all that he had said before to the advantage of the Morlands--confessed himself to have been totally mistaken in his opinion of their circumstances and character, misled by the rhodomontade of his friend to believe his father a man of substance and credit, whereas the transactions of the two or three last weeks proved hierly forward on the first overture of a e between the fa brought to the point by the shrewdness of the relator, been constrained to acknowledge hi people even a decent support They were, in fact, a necessitous family; numerous, too, alhbourhood, as he had lately had particular opportunities of discovering; ai at a style of life which their fortune could not warrant; seeking to better the race

The terrified general pronounced the na look; and here too Thorpe had learnt his error The Allens, he believed, had lived near the eneral needed no ed with almost everybody in the world but himself, he set out the next day for the abbey, where his perforacity to determine how much of all this it was possible for Henry to communicate at this time to Catherine, how much of it he could have learnt froht assist him, and what portion must yet remain to be told in a letter from James I have united for their case what they h to feel that in suspecting General Tilney of either ainst his character, or nified his cruelty