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"Rest! He has only co ruins horses soknocks thee of four hours every day while I am here"

"Shall you indeed!" said Catherine very seriously "That will be forty miles a day"

"Forty! Aye, fifty, for what I care Well, I will drive you up Lansdown tohtful that will be!" cried Isabella, turning round "My dearest Catherine, I quite envy you; but I am afraid, brother, you will not have room for a third"

"A third indeed! No, no; I did not coood joke, faith! Morland ue of civilities between the other two; but Catherine heard neither the particulars nor the result Her companion's discourse now sunk fro more than a short decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every wo as long as she could, with all the civility and deference of the youthful fe an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject by a question which had been long upperhts; it was, "Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr Thorpe?"

"Udolpho! Oh, Lord! Not I; I never read novels; I have sooing to apologize for her question, but he prevented her by saying, "Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation"

"I think you must like Udolpho, if you were to read it; it is so very interesting"

"Not I, faith! No, if I read any, it shall be Mrs Radcliffe's; her novels are a; some fun and nature in them"

"Udolpho ritten by Mrs Radcliffe," said Catherine, with so him

"No sure; was it? Aye, I re of that other stupid book, written by that woman they rant"