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"Yes, sir, I was there last Monday"

"Have you been to the theatre?"

"Yes, sir, I was at the play on Tuesday"

"To the concert?"

"Yes, sir, on Wednesday"

"And are you altogether pleased with Bath?"

"Yes--I like it very well"

"Now I ain"

Catherine turned away her head, not knohether she h "I see what you think of ure in your journal tomorrow"

"My journal!"

"Yes, I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Roos--plain black shoes--appeared to ely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, ould make me dance with him, and distressed "

"Shall I tell you what you ought to say?"

"If you please"

"I danced with a very agreeable young reat deal of conversation with hienius--hope I may know more of him That, madam, is what I wish you to say"

"But, perhaps, I keep no journal"

"Perhaps you are not sitting in this roo by you These are points in which a doubt is equally possible Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenour of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and coht to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal? My dearladies' ways as you wish to believe ely contributes to forenerally celebrated Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly fe, but I am sure ita journal"

"I have soly, "whether ladies do write so entlemen! That is--I should not think the superiority was always on our side"