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"I doubt our being able to do sofellow!" cried Thorpe "We shall be able to do ten tisweston! Aye, and Blaize Castle too, and anything else we can hear of; but here is your sister says she will not go"

"Blaize Castle!" cried Catherine "What is that'?"

"The finest place in England--worth going fifty miles at any time to see"

"What, is it really a castle, an old castle?"

"The oldest in the kingdom"

"But is it like what one reads of?"

"Exactly--the very saalleries?"

"By dozens"

"Then I should like to see it; but I cannot--I cannot go

"Not go! My beloved creature, what do youdown as she spoke, fearful of Isabella's smile--"I expect Miss Tilney and her brother to call on me to take a country walk They promised to come at twelve, only it rained; but now, as it is so fine, I dare say they will be here soon"

"Not they indeed," cried Thorpe; "for, as we turned into Broad Street, I saw theht chestnuts?"

"I do not know indeed"