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Isabella then tried anotherh she had known her so little a while, than for her best and oldest friends, with being grown cold and indifferent, in short, towards herself "I cannot help being jealous, Catherine, when I see ers, I, who love you so excessively! When onceto change theer than anybody's; I a for my own peace; and to see ers does cut me to the quick, I own These Tilneys seeht this reproach equally strange and unkind Was it the part of a friend thus to expose her feelings to the notice of others? Isabella appeared to her ungenerous and selfish, regardless of everything but her own gratification These painful ideas crossed herIsabella, in the meanwhile, had applied her handkerchief to her eyes; and Morland, , "Nay, Catherine

I think you cannot stand out any longer now The sacrifice is not e such a friend--I shall think you quite unkind, if you still refuse"

This was the first tiainst her, and anxious to avoid his displeasure, she proposed a compromise

If they would only put off their scheht easily do, as it depended only on theht then be satisfied But "No, no, no!" was the immediate answer; "that could not be, for Thorpe did not know that he o to town on Tuesday" Catherine was sorry, but could do no more; and a short silence ensued, which was broken by Isabella, who in a voice of cold resentment said, "Very well, then there is an end of the party If Catherine does not go, I cannot I cannot be the only woman I would not, upon any account in the world, do so io," said James

"But why cannot Mr Thorpe drive one of his other sisters? I dare say either of theo"

"Thank ye," cried Thorpe, "but I did not come to Bath to drive o, d--- you"