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"This has been a strange acquaintance," observed Mrs Morland, as the letter was finished; "soon made and soon ended I aht the people; and you were sadly out of luck too in your Isabella Ah!

Poor James! Well, we must live and learn; and the next new friends you "

Catherine coloured as she war than Eleanor"

"If so, ain some time or other; do not be uneasy It is ten to one but you are thrown together again in the course of a few years; and then what a pleasure it will be!"

Mrs Morland was not happy in her atteain in the course of a few years could only put into Catherine's head whatdreadful to her She could never forget Henry Tilney, or think of hiht forget her; and in that case, to meet--! Her eyes filled with tears as she pictured her acquaintance so renewed; and her estions to have had no good effect, proposed, as another expedient for restoring her spirits, that they should call on Mrs Allen

The two houses were only a quarter of a mile apart; and, as they walked, Mrs Morland quickly dispatched all that she felt on the score of James's disappointment "We are sorry for him," said she; "but otherwise there is no har off; for it could not be a desirable thing to have hiirl e had not the smallest acquaintance with, and as so entirely without fortune; and now, after such behaviour, we cannot think at all well of her Just at present it comes hard to poor James; but that will not last forever; and I dare say he will be a discreeter man all his life, for the foolishness of his first choice"

This was just such a summary view of the affair as Catherine could listen to; another sentence ered her complaisance, andpowers sed up in the reflection of her own change of feelings and spirits since last she had trodden that well-known road It was not three o since, ith joyful expectation, she had there run backwards and forwards soay, and independent; looking forward to pleasures untasted and unalloyed, and free froe of it Threedid she return!