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"Make yourself easy, there is no danger of that, for I heard Tilney hallooing to aas far as Wick Rocks"

"Then I will Shall I go, Mrs Allen?"

"Just as you please, o," was the general cry

Mrs Allen was not inattentive to it: "Well, o" And in two ot into the carriage, were in a very unsettled state; divided between regret for the loss of one great pleasure, and the hope of soon enjoying another, alree, however unlike in kind She could not think the Tilneys had acted quite well by her, in so readily giving up their engagee of excuse It was now but an hour later than the ti of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not froone with very little inconvenience To feel herself slighted by theht of exploring an edifice like Udolpho, as her fancy represented Blaize Castle to be, was such a counterpoise of good as

They passed briskly down Pulteney Street, and through Laura Place, without the exchange of many words Thorpe talked to his horse, and she meditated, by turns, on broken pros, Tilneys and trap-doors As they entered Argyle Buildings, however, she was roused by this address froirl who looked at you so hard as she went by?"

"Who? Where?"

"On the right-hand paveht now" Catherine looked round and saw Miss Tilney leaning on her brother's ar back at her "Stop, stop, Mr Thorpe," she impatiently cried; "it is Miss Tilney; it is indeed How could you tell et out this o to them" But to what purpose did she speak? Thorpe only lashed his horse into a brisker trot; the Tilneys, who had soon ceased to look after her, were in a ht round the corner of Laura Place, and in another moment she was herself whisked into the marketplace