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1"Oh! yes, quite; what can it be? But do not tell me--I would not be told upon any account. I know it must be a skeleton,
2I am sure it is Laurentina's skeleton. Oh! i am delighted with the book! i should like to spend my whole life in reading
3it. I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world." "Dear creature!
4how much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out
5a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you." "Have you, indeed! how glad I am! what are they all?" "I will
6read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings,
7Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some
8time." "Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?" "Yes, quite sure; for a particular
9friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them. I
10wish you knew Miss Andrews, you would be delighted with her. She is netting herself the sweetest cloak you can conceive.
11I think her as beautiful as an angel, and I am so vexed with the men for not admiring her! i scold them all amazingly
12about it." "Scold them! do you scold them for not admiring her?" "Yes, that I do. There is nothing I would not do for
13those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are
14always excessively strong. I told Captain Hunt at one of our assemblies this winter that if he was to tease me all
15night, I would not dance with him, unless he would allow Miss Andrews to be as beautiful as an angel. The men think us
16incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference. Now, if I were to hear anybody
17speak slightingly of you, I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely, for you are just the kind of girl
18to be a great favourite with the men." "Oh, dear!" cried Catherine, colouring. "How can you say so?" "I know you very
19well; you have so much animation, which is exactly what Miss Andrews wants, for I must confess there is something
20amazingly insipid about her. Oh! i must tell you, that just after we parted yesterday, I saw a young man looking at you
21so earnestly--I am sure he is in love with you." Catherine coloured, and disclaimed again. Isabella laughed. "It is very
22true, upon my honour, but I see how it is; you are indifferent to everybody's admiration, except that of one gentleman,
23who shall be nameless. Nay, I cannot blame you"--speaking more seriously--"your feelings are easily understood. Where
24the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else.
25Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object! i can perfectly comprehend your
26feelings." "But you should not persuade me that I think so very much about Mr. Tilney, for perhaps I may never see him
27again." "Not see him again! my dearest creature, do not talk of it. I am sure you would be miserable if you thought so!"
28"No, indeed, I should not. I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho
29to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable. Oh! the dreadful black veil! my dear Isabella, I am sure there
30must be Laurentina's skeleton behind it." "It is so odd to me, that you should never have read Udolpho before; but I
31suppose Mrs. Morland objects to novels." "No, she does not. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new
32books do not fall in our way." "Sir Charles Grandison! that is an amazing horrid book, is it not? I remember Miss
33Andrews could not get through the first volume." "It is not like Udolpho at all; but yet I think it is very
34entertaining." "Do you indeed! you surprise me; I thought it had not been readable. But, my dearest Catherine, have you
35settled what to wear on your head to-night? I am determined at all events to be dressed exactly like you. The men take
36notice of that sometimes, you know." "But it does not signify if they do," said Catherine, very innocently. "Signify!
37oh, heavens! i make it a rule never to mind what they say. They are very often amazingly impertinent if you do not treat
38them with spirit, and make them keep their distance." "Are they? Well, I never observed that. They always behave very
39well to me." "Oh! they give themselves such airs. They are the most conceited creatures in the world, and think
40themselves of so much importance! by the by, though I have thought of it a hundred times, I have always forgot to ask
41you what is your favourite complexion in a man. Do you like them best dark or fair?" "I hardly know. I never much
42thought about it. Something between both, I think. Brown--not fair, and--and not very dark." "Very well, Catherine. That
43is exactly he. I have not forgot your description of Mr. Tilney--'a brown skin, with dark eyes, and rather dark hair.'
44Well, my taste is different. I prefer light eyes, and as to complexion--do you know--I like a sallow better than any
45other. You must not betray me, if you should ever meet with one of your acquaintance answering that description."
46"Betray you! what do you mean?" "Nay, do not distress me. I believe I have said too much. Let us drop the subject."
47Catherine, in some amazement, complied, and after remaining a few moments silent, was on the point of reverting to what
48interested her at that time rather more than anything else in the world, Laurentina's skeleton, when her friend
49prevented her, by saying, "For heaven's sake! Let us move away from this end of the room. Do you know, there are two
50odious young men who have been staring at me this half hour. They really put me quite out of countenance. Let us go and
51look at the arrivals. They will hardly follow us there." Away they walked to the book; and while Isabella examined the
52names, it was Catherine's employment to watch the proceedings of these alarming young men. "They are not coming this
53way, are they? I hope they are not so impertinent as to follow us. Pray let me know if they are coming. I am determined
54I will not look up." In a few moments Catherine, with unaffected pleasure, assured her that she need not be longer
55uneasy, as the gentlemen had just left the pump-room. "And which way are they gone?" said Isabella, turning hastily
56round. "One was a very good-looking young man." "They went towards the church-yard." "Well, I am amazingly glad I have
57got rid of them! and now, what say you to going to Edgar's Buildings with me, and looking at my new hat? You said you
58should like to see it." Catherine readily agreed. "Only," she added, "perhaps we may overtake the two young men." "Oh!
59never mind that. If we make haste, we shall pass by them presently, and I am dying to show you my hat." "But if we only
60wait a few minutes, there will be no danger of our seeing them at all." "I shall not pay them any such compliment, I
61assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them." Catherine had nothing to
62oppose against such reasoning; and therefore, to show the independence of Miss Thorpe, and her resolution of humbling
63the sex, they set off immediately as fast as they could walk, in pursuit of the two young men. CHAPTER 7
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