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CHAPTER XII.
The next morning brought the following very unexpected letter from Isabella:—
Bath, April
My dearest Catherine,
I received your two kind letters with the greatest delight, and have a thousand apologies to make for not answering them sooner. I really am quite ashamed of my idleness; but in this horrid place one can find time for nothing. I have had my pen in my hand to begin a letter to you almost every day since you left Bath, but have always been prevented by
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