? ? ? ? "Well, I saw him at that moment turn up the Lansdown Road, driving a smart-looking girl."
? ? ? ? "Did you indeed?"
? ? ? ? "Did upon my soul; knew him again directly, and he seemed to have got some very pretty cattle too."
? ? ? ? "It is very odd! But I suppose they thought it would be too dirty for a walk."
? ? ? ? "And well they might, for I never saw so much dirt in my life. Walk! You could no more walk than you could fly! It has not been so dirty the whole winter; it is ankle-deep everywhere."
? ? ? ? Isabella corroborated it: "My dearest Catherine, you cannot form an idea of the dirt; come, you must go; you cannot refuse going now."
? ? ? ? "I should like to see the castle; but may we go all over it? May we go up every staircase, and into every suite of rooms?"
? ? ? ? "Yes, yes, every hole and corner."
? ? ? ? "But then, if they should only be gone out for an hour till it is dryer, and call by and by?"
? ? ? ? "Make yourself easy, there is no danger of that, for I heard Tilney hallooing to a man who was just passing by on horseback, that they were going as far as Wick Rocks."
? ? ? ? "Then I will. Shall I go, Mrs. Allen?"
? ? ? ? "Just as you please, my dear.
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