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From this state of humiliation, she was roused, at the end of ten , not Mr Thorpe, but Mr

Tilney, within three yards of the place where they sat; he see that way, but he did not see her, and therefore the smile and the blush, which his sudden reappearance raised in Catherine, passed aithout sullying her heroic importance He looked as handso with interest to a fashionable and pleasing-looking young wouessed to be his sister; thus unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering hiuided only by as simple and probable, it had never entered her head that Mr Tilney could be married; he had not behaved, he had not talked, like the married men to whom she had been used; he had never ed a sister Fro the instant conclusion of his sister's now being by his side; and therefore, instead of turning of a deathlike paleness and falling in a fit on Mrs Allen's bosom, Catherine sat erect, in the perfect use of her senses, and with cheeks only a little redder than usual

Mr Tilney and his coh slowly, to approach, were immediately preceded by a lady, an acquaintance of Mrs Thorpe; and this lady stopping to speak to her, they, as belonging to her, stopped likewise, and Catherine, catching Mr

Tilney's eye, instantly received fronition She returned it with pleasure, and then advancing still nearer, he spoke both to her and Mrs Allen, by whoed "I aain, sir, indeed; I was afraid you had left Bath" He thanked her for her fears, and said that he had quitted it for a week, on the veryher

"Well, sir, and I dare say you are not sorry to be back again, for it is just the place for young people--and indeed for everybody else too I tell Mr Allen, when he talks of being sick of it, that I areeable a place, that it is much better to be here than at home at this dull time of year I tell him he is quite in luck to be sent here for his health"