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1  Such was Catherine Morland at ten.
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2  "About a week, sir," replied Catherine, trying not to laugh.
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3  His address was good, and Catherine felt herself in high luck.
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4  Mr. and Mrs. Morland were all compliance, and Catherine all happiness.
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5  Catherine turned away her head, not knowing whether she might venture to laugh.
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6  The day which dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of Catherine's life.
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7  With such encouragement, Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd.
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8  No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.
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9  Catherine feared, as she listened to their discourse, that he indulged himself a little too much with the foibles of others.
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10  Catherine too made some purchases herself, and when all these matters were arranged, the important evening came which was to usher her into the Upper Rooms.
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11  Her mother wished her to learn music; and Catherine was sure she should like it, for she was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinnet; so, at eight years old she began.
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12  For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes; but they were repeated so often, and proved so totally ineffectual, that Catherine grew tired at last, and would thank her no more.
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13  It is remarkable, however, that she neither insisted on Catherine's writing by every post, nor exacted her promise of transmitting the character of every new acquaintance, nor a detail of every interesting conversation that Bath might produce.
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14  A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any.
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15  A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; and advice of the most important and applicable nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet.
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16  With more care for the safety of her new gown than for the comfort of her protegee, Mrs. Allen made her way through the throng of men by the door, as swiftly as the necessary caution would allow; Catherine, however, kept close at her side, and linked her arm too firmly within her friend's to be torn asunder by any common effort of a struggling assembly.
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17  For a moment Catherine was surprised; but Mrs. Thorpe and her daughters had scarcely begun the history of their acquaintance with Mr. James Morland, before she remembered that her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy with a young man of his own college, of the name of Thorpe; and that he had spent the last week of the Christmas vacation with his family, near London.
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