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With erness did Catherine hasten to the pu Mr Tilney there before thewere over, and ready to meet him with a smile; but no smile was demanded--Mr Tilney did not appear Every creature in Bath, except himself, was to be seen in the room at different periods of the fashionable hours; crowds of people were everyin and out, up the steps and down; people whom nobody cared about, and nobody wanted to see; and he only was absent "What a delightful place Bath is," said Mrs Allen as they sat down near the great clock, after parading the room till they were tired; "and how pleasant it would be if we had any acquaintance here"

This sentiment had been uttered so often in vain that Mrs Allen had no particular reason to hope it would be folloithould attain," as "unwearied diligence our point would gain"; and the unwearied diligence hich she had every day wished for the sath to have its just reward, for hardly had she been seated tenby her, and had been looking at her attentively for several reat complaisance in these words: "I think,ti you, but is not your name Allen?"

This question answered, as it readily was, the stranger pronounced hers to be Thorpe; and Mrs Allen inized the features of a former schoolfellow and intimate, whoes, and that reat, as well itof each other for the last fifteen years Co how tiether, how little they had thought ofin Bath, and what a pleasure it was to see an old friend, they proceeded to ence as to their faether, far ive than to receive infor very little of what the other said Mrs Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views--that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea--and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs Allen had no siive, no si ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all theseherself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own