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In this unceasing recurrence of doubts and inquiries, on any one article of which her mind was incapable of more than momentary repose, the hours passed away, and her journey advancedanxieties of thought, which prevented her frohbourhood of Woodston, saved her at the sah no object on the road could engage a e of it tedious Fro no eagerness for her journey's conclusion; for to return in such a manner to Fullerton was al with those she loved best, even after an absence such as hers--an eleven weeks' absence What had she to say that would not humble herself and pain her farief by the confession of it, extend an useless resentuilty in undistinguishing ill will? She could never do justice to Henry and Eleanor's ly for expression; and should a dislike be taken against theht of unfavourably, on their father's account, it would cut her to the heart

With these feelings, she rather dreaded than sought for the first view of that well-known spire which would announce her within twenty miles of ho Northanger; but after the first stage she had been indebted to the post-masters for the nareat had been her ignorance of her route

She hten her Her youth, civil manners, and liberal pay procured her all the attention that a traveller like herself could require; and stopping only to change horses, she travelled on for about eleven hours without accident or alar found herself entering Fullerton

A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triunity of a countess, with a long train of noble relations in their several phaetons, and three waiting- chaise and four, behind her, is an event on which the pen of the contriver ives credit to every conclusion, and the author lory she so liberally bestows Butback race; and no sweet elation of spirits can lead me into minuteness A heroine in a hack post-chaise is such a blow upon sentirandeur or pathos can withstand