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"Bath is a charood shops here

We are sadly off in the country; not but e have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go--eightway; Mr Allen says it is nine, ht; and it is such a fag--I come back tired to death Now, here one can step out of doors and get a thing in five h to seem interested in what she said; and she kept hi recommenced Catherine feared, as she listened to their discourse, that he indulged himself a little tooof so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory"

Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything"

"That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me"

"Well then, I will not"

"Thank you; for noe shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever wein the world advances intiain; and, when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady's side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance Whether she thought of him so much, while she drank her ine and water, and prepared herself for bed, as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was nodoze at most; for if it be true, as a celebrated writer hasin love before the gentle lady should dreaentleman is first known to have dreaht be as a dreamer or a lover had not yet perhaps entered Mr Allen's head, but that he was not objectionable as a coe he was on inquiry satisfied; for he had early in the evening taken pains to knoho her partner was, and had been assured of Mr Tilney's being a clergyman, and of a very respectable family in Gloucestershire