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"Lord help you! You wo in liquor Why, you do not suppose a man is overset by a bottle? I am sure of this--that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now It would be a fa for us all"

"I cannot believe it"

"Oh! Lord, it would be the saving of thousands There is not the hundredth part of the wine consuy clireat deal of wine drunk in Oxford"

"Oxford! There is no drinking at Oxford now, I assure you Nobody drinks there You would hardly oes beyond his four pints at the ut, at the last party in e we cleared about five pints a head It was looked upon as soood stuff, to be sure You would not oftenlike it in Oxford--and that ive you a notion of the general rate of drinking there"

"Yes, it does give a notion," said Catherine warreat deal ht you did

However, I aht on a loud and overpowering reply, of which no part was very distinct, except the frequent excla almost to oaths, which adorned it, and Catherine was left, when it ended, with rather a strengthened belief of there being a great deal of wine drunk in Oxford, and the same happy conviction of her brother's comparative sobriety

Thorpe's ideas then all reverted to the e, and she was called on to ad, and the ease which his paces, as well as the excellence of the springs, gave the e She followed hio before or beyond hinorance of the subject, his rapidity of expression, and her diffidence of herself put that out of her power; she could strike out nothing new in commendation, but she readily echoed whatever he chose to assert, and it was finally settled between theether the e the neatest, his horse the best goer, and himself the best coachman "You do not really think, Mr Thorpe," said Catherine, venturing after some time to consider the matter as entirely decided, and to offer so will break down?"