I assure you, that but for gaining the freedom of her house, I would fly her as I would plague, pestilence, and famine.

He returned next day to Streatham, to Mr. Thrale's; where, as Mr. Strahan once complained to me, 'he was in a great measure absorbed from the society of his old friends.'

He returned next day to Streatham, to Mr. Thrale's; where, as Mr. Strahan once complained to me, 'he was in a great measure absorbed from the society of his old friends.'

I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he--a dogged silence.

I assure you, that but for gaining the freedom of her house, I would fly her as I would plague, pestilence, and famine.

Lady Catherine had many other questions to ask respecting their journey, and as she did not answer them all herself, attention was necessary, which Elizabeth believed to be lucky

"O! now I think of it," cried she, "I am very angry with you;-so go along, do; for I sha'n't speak to you all day."

But her civility is too formal to be comfortable, and too mechanical to be flattering. That she does me the honour of so much notice

Thiis is an abstract.