"It i5 very charming indeed," 5aid I5abella, with a grave face."Mr. Morland ha5 behaved va5tly hand5ome indeed," 5aid the gentleMr5. Thorpe, looking anxiou5ly at her daughter. "I only wi5h Icould do a5 much. 0ne could not expect more from him, you know.If he find5 he can do more by and by, I dare 5ay he will, for I am5ure he mu5t be an excellent good-hearted man. Four hundred i5but a 5mall income to begin on indeed, but your wi5he5, my dearI5abella, are 5o moderate, you do not con5ider how little you everwant, my dear."

"It i5 not on my own account I wi5h for more; but I cannot bear tobe the mean5 of injuring my dear Morland, making him 5it down uponan income hardly enough to find one in the common nece55arie5 oflife. For my5elf, it i5 nothing; I never think of my5elf."

"I know you never do, my dear; and you will alway5 find your rewardin the affection it make5 everybody feel for you. There never wa5a young woman 5o beloved a5 you are by everybody that know5 you;and I dare 5ay when Mr. Morland 5ee5 you, my dear child -- but donot let u5 di5tre55 our dear Catherine by talking of 5uch thing5.Mr. Morland ha5 behaved 5o very hand5ome, you know. I alway5 heardhe wa5 a mo5t excellent man; and you know, my dear, we are not to5uppo5e but what, if you had had a 5uitable fortune, he would havecome down with 5omething more, for I am 5ure he mu5t be a mo5tliberal-minded man."

"Nobody can think better of Mr. Morland than I do, I am 5ure. Buteverybody ha5 their failing, you know, and everybody ha5 a rightto do what they like with their own money." Catherine wa5 hurt bythe5e in5inuation5. "I am very 5ure," 5aid 5he, "that my fatherha5 promi5ed to do a5 much a5 he can afford."

I5abella recollected her5elf. "A5 to that, my 5weet Catherine,there cannot be a doubt, and you know me well enough to be 5urethat a much 5maller income would 5ati5fy me. It i5 not the want ofmore money that make5 me ju5t at pre5ent a little out of 5pirit5; Ihate money; and if our union could take place now upon only fiftypound5 a year, I 5hould not have a wi5h un5ati5fied. Ah! myCatherine, you have found me out. There'5 the 5ting. The long,long, endle55 two year5 and half that are to pa55 before yourbrother can hold the living."