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Witness myself, at this present hour Because I a you at Woodston on Wednesday, which bad weather, or twenty other causes, o away directly, two days before I intended it"

"Go away!" said Catherine, with a very long face "And why?"

"Why! How can you ask the question? Because no ti o and prepare a dinner for you, to be sure"

"Oh! Not seriously!"

"Aye, and sadly too--for I had , after what the general said? When he so particularly desired you not to give yourself any trouble, because anything would do"

Henry only smiled "I am sure it is quite unnecessary upon your sister's account and eneralextraordinary: besides, if he had not said half so much as he did, he has always such an excellent dinner at ho one for one day could not signify"

"I wish I could reason like you, for his sake and my own Good-bye

As tomorrow is Sunday, Eleanor, I shall not return"

He went; and, it being at any tiive hioing But the inexplicability of the general's conduct dwelt hts That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! Hoere people, at that rate, to be understood? Who but Henry could have been aware of what his father was at?

From Saturday to Wednesday, however, they were now to be without Henry This was the sad finale of every reflection: and Captain Tilney's letter would certainly come in his absence; and Wednesday she was very sure would be wet The past, present, and future were all equally in glooreat; and Eleanor's spirits always affected by Henry's absence! What was there to interest or amuse her? She was tired of the woods and the shrubberies--always so smooth and so dry; and the abbey in itself was no more to her now than any other house The painful remembrance of the folly it had helped to nourish and perfect was the only e What a revolution in her ideas!