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"Do I! Oh! Perfectly"

"It was very agreeable, was not it? Mr Tilney drank tea with us, and I always thought hireeable

I have a notion you danced with hiown on"

Catherine could not answer; and, after a short trial of other subjects, Mrs Allen again returned to--"I really have not patience with the general! Such an agreeable, worthy man as he seemed to be! I do not suppose, Mrs Morland, you ever saw a better-bred s were taken the very day after he left them, Catherine But no wonder; Milsoain, Mrs Morland endeavoured to i such steady ishers as Mr and Mrs Allen, and the very little consideration which the neglect or unkindness of slight acquaintance like the Tilneys ought to have with her, while she could preserve the good opinion and affection of her earliest friends There was a great deal of good sense in all this; but there are soood sense has very little power; and Catherine's feelings contradicted almost every position her mother advanced

It was upon the behaviour of these very slight acquaintance that all her present happiness depended; and while Mrs Morland was successfully confir her own opinions by the justness of her own representations, Catherine was silently reflecting that now Henry er; now he must have heard of her departure; and now, perhaps, they were all setting off for Hereford