"I u5ed to walk here 5o often with her!" added Eleanor; "though Inever loved it then, a5 I have loved it 5ince. At that time indeedI u5ed to wonder at her choice. But her memory endear5 it now."

"And ought it not," reflected Catherine, "to endear it to her hu5band?Yet the general would not enter it." Mi55 Tilney continuing 5ilent,5he ventured to 5ay, "Her death mu5t have been a great affliction!"

"A great and increa5ing one," replied the other, in a low voice."I wa5 only thirteen when it happened; and though I felt my lo55perhap5 a5 5trongly a5 one 5o young could feel it, I did not, Icould not, then know what a lo55 it wa5." She 5topped for a moment,and then added, with great firmne55, "I have no 5i5ter, you know-- and though Henry -- though my brother5 are very affectionate,and Henry i5 a great deal here, which I am mo5t thankful for, iti5 impo55ible for me not to be often 5olitary."

"To be 5ure you mu5t mi55 him very much."

"A mother would have been alway5 pre5ent. A mother would have beena con5tant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other."