“‘They went towards the churchyard.’
“‘Well, I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them; and now what say you to going to Edgar’s Buildings with me, and looking at my new hat? You said you should like to see it.’
“Catherine readily agreed. ‘Only,’ she added, ‘perhaps we may overtake the two young men.’
“‘Oh, never mind that. If we make haste, we shall pass by them presently, and I am dying to show you my hat.’
“‘But if we only wait a few minutes, there will be no danger of our seeing them at all.’
“‘I shall not pay them any such compliment, I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.’
“Catherine had nothing to oppose against such reasoning, and therefore, to show the independence of Miss Thorpe, and her resolution of humbling the sex, they set off immediately, as fast as they could walk, in pursuit of the two young men.”
II.
As the girls are crossing a street, they are stopped by the approach of a gig, driven along on bad pavement, by a most knowing-looking coachman, with all the vehemence that could most fully endanger the lives of himself, his companion, and his horse.
“Oh! these odious gigs,” cries Isabella, “how I detest them!”