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"Break down! Oh! Lord! Did you ever see such a little tittuppy thing in your life? There is not a sound piece of iron about it

The wheels have been fairly worn out these ten years at least--and as for the body! Upon ht shake it to pieces yourself with a touch It is the most devilish little rickety business I ever beheld! Thank God! we have got a better I would not be bound to go two miles in it for fifty thousand pounds"

"Good heavens!" cried Catherine, quite frightened "Then pray let us turn back; they will certainly o on Do let us turn back, Mr Thorpe; stop and speak to my brother, and tell him how very unsafe it is"

"Unsafe! Oh, lord! What is there in that? They will only get a roll if it does break down; and there is plenty of dirt; it will be excellent falling Oh, curse it! The carriage is safe enough, if a ood hands will last above twenty years after it is fairly worn out Lord bless you! I would undertake for five pounds to drive it to York and back again, without losing a nail"

Catherine listened with astonishment; she knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the saht up to understand the propensities of a rattle, nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead Her own family were plain, matter-of-fact people who seldo contented with a pun, and her mother with a proverb; they were not in the habit therefore of telling lies to increase their i at one moment what they would contradict the next She reflected on the affair for some time in much perplexity, and wasfroht into his real opinion on the subject; but she checked herself, because it appeared to her that he did not excel in giving those clearer insights, in uous; and, joining to this, the consideration that he would not really suffer his sister and his friend to be exposed to a danger froht easily preserve thee to be in fact perfectly safe, and therefore would alarer By hiotten; and all the rest of his conversation, or rather talk, began and ended with himself and his own concerns He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible su parties, in which he had killed ood shot) than all his coether; and described to her some faht and skill in directing the dogs had repaired the mistakes of the most experienced huntsh it had never endangered his own life for aothers into difficulties, which he calmly concluded had broken the necks of many