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But ill your excellent father and itated!"

Catherine's understanding began to awake: an idea of the truth suddenly darted into her mind; and, with the natural blush of so new an emotion, she cried out, "Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you--can you really be in love with James?"

This bold surmise, however, she soon learnt comprehended but half the fact The anxious affection, which she was accused of having continually watched in Isabella's every look and action, had, in the course of their yesterday's party, received the delightful confession of an equal love Her heart and faith were alike engaged to Ja so full of interest, wonder, and joy Her brother and her friend engaged! New to such circureat, and she conterand events, of which the ordinary course of life can hardly afford a return

The strength of her feelings she could not express; the nature of the such a sister was their first effusion, and the fair ladies , however, as Catherine sincerely did in the prospect of the connection, it ed that Isabella far surpassed her in tender anticipations "You will be so infinitely dearer to me, my Catherine, than either Anne or Maria: I feel that I shall be so much more attached to my dear Morland's family than to my own"

This was a pitch of friendship beyond Catherine

"You are so like your dear brother," continued Isabella, "that I quite doted on you the first moment I saw you But so it always is withThe very first day that Morland came to us last Christmas--the very first one I reoith -rooht I never saw anybody so handsoed the power of love; for, though exceedingly fond of her brother, and partial to all his endowht him handsome

"I re, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all right for thinking of it Oh! Catherine, the hts I have had on your brother's account!