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"You have seen Mrs Thorpe, then?"

"Yes, I went to the puone, and there I ether She says there was hardly any veal to be got at , it is so uncommonly scarce"

"Did you see anybody else of our acquaintance?"

"Yes; we agreed to take a turn in the Crescent, and there wewith her"

"Did you indeed? And did they speak to you?"

"Yes, alked along the Crescent together for half an hour

They seereeable people Miss Tilney was in a very pretty spotted muslin, and I fancy, by what I can learn, that she always dresses very handsoreat deal about the family"

"And what did she tell you of the else"

"Did she tell you what part of Gloucestershire they come from?"

"Yes, she did; but I cannot recollect now But they are very good kind of people, and very rich Mrs Tilney was a Miss Druhes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drue fortune; and, when she ave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes

Mrs Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse"

"And are Mr and Mrs Tilney in Bath?"

"Yes, I fancy they are, but I am not quite certain Upon recollection, however, I have a notion they are both dead; at least the mother is; yes, I ahes told me there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr Dru-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died"

"And is Mr Tilney, my partner, the only son?"

"I cannot be quite positive about that, my dear; I have so hes says, and likely to do very well"

Catherine inquired no further; she had heard enough to feel that Mrs Allen had no real intelligence to give, and that she waswith both brother and sister Could she have foreseen such a circuo out with the others; and, as it was, she could only lament her ill luck, and think over what she had lost, till it was clear to her that the drive had by no means been very pleasant and that John Thorpe hireeable