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Desirous of Mr Morland's assistance, as well in giving encourageuest, whose embarrassment on his father's account she earnestly pitied, Mrs Morland had very early dispatched one of the children to su thus without any support, at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say After a couple ofto Catherine for the first time since her mother's entrance, asked her, with sudden alacrity, if Mr and Mrs Allen were now at Fullerton? And on developing, fro, which one short syllable would have given, i his respects to the colour, asked her if she would have the goodness to show him the way "You may see the house from this , sir," was information on Sarah's side, which produced only a bow of acknowledg nod fro it probable, as a secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbours, that he ive of his father's behaviour, which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to Catherine, would not on any account prevent her accoan their walk, and Mrs Morland was not entirelyit Soive; but his first purpose was to explain hirounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally kneas already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society, Ibetter than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for hiht It is a new circuatory of an heroine's dignity; but if it be as new in coination will at least be all my own

A very short visit to Mrs Allen, in which Henry talked at random, without sense or connection, and Catherine, rapt in the contemplation of her own unutterable happiness, scarcely opened her lips, dismissed them to the ecstasies of another tete-a-tete; and before it was suffered to close, she was enabled to judge how far he was sanctioned by parental authority in his present application On his return from Woodston, two days before, he had been met near the abbey by his iry terms of Miss Morland's departure, and ordered to think of her no more