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Thorpe as fast as she could, in the hope of finding him still with them--a hope which, when it proved to be fruitless, she felt to have been highly unreasonable "Well, my dear," said Mrs Thorpe, ireeable partner"

"Very agreeable,spirits, has not he?"

"Did you meet Mr Tilney, my dear?" said Mrs Allen

"No, where is he?"

"He ith us just now, and said he was so tired of lounging about, that he was resolved to go and dance; so I thought perhaps he would ask you, if heround; but she had not looked round long before she saw hiot a partner; I wish he had asked you," said Mrs

Allen; and after a short silence, she added, "he is a very agreeable youngcoh I a ht have been too much for the comprehension of many; but it did not puzzle Mrs Allen, for after only a moment's consideration, she said, in a whisper to Catherine, "I dare say she thought I was speaking of her son"

Catherine was disappointed and vexed She seemed to have missed by so little the very object she had had in view; and this persuasion did not incline her to a very gracious reply, when John Thorpe came up to her soon afterwards and said, "Well, Miss Morland, I suppose you and I are to stand up and jig it together again"

"Oh, no; I aed to you, our two dances are over; and, besides, I am tired, and do not mean to dance any more"

"Do not you? Then let us walk about and quiz people Coreatest quizzers in the roohing at theain Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by hi she found very dull; Mr Tilney was draay from their party at tea, to attend that of his partner; Miss Tilney, though belonging to it, did not sit near her, and Jaether that the latter had no leisure to bestow more on her friend than one smile, one squeeze, and one "dearest Catherine"