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"Well, nobody would have thought you had no right who saw your face" He replied by asking her toof the play

He rereeable for Catherine to be contented when he went away Before they parted, however, it was agreed that the projected walk should be taken as soon as possible; and, setting aside thetheir box, she was, upon the whole, left one of the happiest creatures in the world

While talking to each other, she had observed with some surprise that John Thorpe, as never in the saed in conversation with General Tilney; and she felt soht she could perceive herself the object of their attention and discourse What could they have to say of her? She feared General Tilney did not like her appearance: she found it was ihter, rather than postpone his oalk a few minutes "How came Mr Thorpe to know your father?" was her anxious inquiry, as she pointed the about it; but his father, like every e acquaintance

When the entertain out Catherine was the iallantry; and, while they waited in the lobby for a chair, he prevented the inquiry which had travelled fro, in a consequentialwith General Tilney: "He is a fine old fellow, upon reat regard for hiood sort of fellow as ever lived"

"But how came you to know him?"

"Know him! There are few people much about town that I do not know I have ain today the moment he came into the billiard-room One of the best players we have, by the by; and we had a little touch together, though I was alainst me; and, if I had not made one of the cleanest strokes that perhaps ever was made in this world--I took his ball exactly--but I could not make you understand it without a table; however, I did beat him A very fine fellow; as rich as a Jew I should like to dine with hiives fa of? You Yes, by heavens!