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You must be near us"

"I am sure I shall be miserable if we do not If I can but be near you, I shall be satisfied But this is idle talking! I will not allow s, till we have your father's answer Morland says that by sending it tonight to Salisbury, we may have it toe to open the letter I knoill be the death of me"

A reverie succeeded this conviction--and when Isabella spoke again, it was to resolve on the quality of her wedding-gown

Their conference was put an end to by the anxious young lover hih before he set off for Wiltshire Catherine wished to congratulate him, but knew not what to say, and her eloquence was only in her eyes Froht parts of speech shone out most expressively, and James could combine them with ease Impatient for the realization of all that he hoped at ho; and they would have been yet shorter, had he not been frequently detained by the urgent entreaties of his fair one that he would go Tas he called alone "Indeed, Morland, I must drive you away Consider how far you have to ride I cannot bear to see you linger so For heaven's sake, waste no o--I insist on it"

The two friends, with hearts now more united than ever, were inseparable for the day; and in sche Mrs Thorpe and her son, ere acquainted with everything, and who seemed only to want Mr Morland's consent, to consider Isabella's engageinable for their family, were allowed to join their counsels, and add their quota of significant looks and mysterious expressions to fill up the er sisters To Catherine's sis, this odd sort of reserve seemed neither kindly meant, nor consistently supported; and its unkindness she would hardly have forborne pointing out, had its inconsistency been less their friend; but Anne and Maria soon set her heart at ease by the sagacity of their "I knohat"; and the evening was spent in a sort of war of wit, a display of faenuity, on one side in the mystery of an affected secret, on the other of undefined discovery, all equally acute