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"You speak with astonishing coerated; and if such a design is known beforehand, proper overn to effect"

"Govern not to smile, "neither desires nor dares to interfere in such overnhed, and added, "Come, shall I make you understand each other, or leave you to puzzle out an explanation as you can? No--I will be noble I will prove enerosity of my soul than the clearness of my head I have no patience with such of my sex as disdain to let themselves sometimes down to the comprehension of yours Perhaps the abilities of woorous nor keen

Perhaps they enius, and wit"

"Miss Morland, do not oodness to satisfy me as to this dreadful riot"

"Riot! What riot?"

"My dear Eleanor, the riot is only in your own brain The confusion there is scandalous Miss Morland has been talking of nothing more dreadful than a new publication which is shortly to come out, in three duodecies in each, with a frontispiece to the first, of two tombstones and a lantern--do you understand? And you, Miss Morland--my stupid sister has mistaken all your clearest expressions You talked of expected horrors in London--and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a e's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London floith blood, a detachoons (the hopes of the nation) called up froallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in theat the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat froive her stupidity The fears of the sister have added to the weakness of the woeneral"

Catherine looked grave "And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well make Miss Morland understand yourself--unless you mean to have her think you intolerably rude to your sister, and a great brute in your opinion of woeneral Miss Morland is not used to your odd ways"