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Miss Tilney had a good figure, a pretty face, and a very agreeable countenance; and her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness of Miss Thorpe's, had ood breeding; they were neither shy nor affectedly open; and she see, attractive, and at a ball without wanting to fix the attention of every s of ecstatic delight or inconceivable vexation on every little trifling occurrence Catherine, interested at once by her appearance and her relationship to Mr Tilney, was desirous of being acquainted with her, and readily talked therefore whenever she could think of anything to say, and had courage and leisure for saying it But the hindrance thrown in the way of a very speedy intimacy, by the frequent want of one or oing through the first rudi themselves hoell the other liked Bath, howcountry, whether she drew, or played, or sang, and whether she was fond of riding on horseback

The two dances were scarcely concluded before Catherine found her arreat spirits exclaiot you My dearest creature, I have been looking for you this hour What could induce you to come into this set, when you kneas in the other? I have been quite wretched without you"

"My dear Isabella, hoas it possible for et at you? I could not even see where you were"

"So I told your brother all the tio and see for her, Mr Morland, said I--but all in vain--he would not stir an inch Was not it so, Mr Morland? But youhiree, my dear Catherine, you would be quite amazed You know I never stand upon cere lady with the white beads round her head," whispered Catherine, detaching her friend from James "It is Mr

Tilney's sister"

"Oh! Heavens! You don't say so! Let me look at her this moment

What a delightful girl! I never saw anything half so beautiful!

But where is her all-conquering brother? Is he in the room? Point him out to me this instant, if he is I die to see him Mr