Austen Said:

he could do the same, for he never entered his, without being vexed in some way or other, by its falling short of his plan.

“How were Mr. Allen’s succession-houses worked?”

“The rays of the sun were not too cheerful for him, and he would meet them by another course.”

He would follow them in a quarter of an hour.

a strict charge against taking her friend round the abbey till his return.

the real drawing-room, used only with company of consequence.

with the addition of the kitchen, the six or seven rooms she had now seen surrounded three sides of the court,

she was treading what had once been a cloister,

if he had a vanity, it was in the arrangement of his offices;

to a mind like Miss Morland’s, a view of the accommodations and comforts, by which the labours of her inferiors were softened, must always be gratifying, he should make no apology for leading her on.

ventured to hope that henceforward some of their earliest tenants might be

whither she were going? — And what was there more to be seen? — Had not Miss Morland already seen all that could be worth her notice? — And did she not suppose her friend might be glad of some refreshment after so much exercise?

The latter was not going to retire.

the friend of his daughter,

making Miss Morland’s time at Northanger pass pleasantly.

the sameness of every day’s society and employments would disgust her with the place,

the Lady Frasers had been in the country,

of having a large party to dinner,

But then it was such a dead time of year, no wild-fowl, no game, and the Lady Frasers were not in the country.

when he next went to Woodston, they would take him by surprise there some day or other, and eat their mutton with him.

any necessity should rob him even for an hour of Miss Morland’s company,

for his appearance there,

after what had passed he had little right to expect a welcome at Fullerton,

his impatience to be assured of Miss Morland’s having reached her home in safety, as the cause of his intrusion.

if Mr. and Mrs. Allen were now at Fullerton?

the meaning,

his intention of paying his respects to them,

if she would have the goodness to show him the way.

On his return from Woodston, two days before, he had been met near the abbey by his impatient father, hastily informed in angry terms of

Miss Morland’s departure,

and ordered

to think of her no more.

if he knew more of her than her name.

her therefore as the almost acknowledged future heiress of Fullerton

to have been totally mistaken in his opinion of their circumstances and character, misled by the rhodomontade of his friend to believe his father a man of substance and credit, whereas the transactions of the two or three last weeks proved him to be neither; for after coming eagerly forward on the first overture of a marriage between the families, with the most liberal proposals, he had, on being brought to the point by the shrewdness of the relator, been constrained to acknowledge himself incapable of giving the young people even a decent support. They were, in fact, a necessitous family; numerous, too, almost beyond example; by no means respected in their own neighbourhood, as he had lately had particular opportunities of discovering; aiming at a style of life which their fortune could not warrant; seeking to better themselves by wealthy connections; a forward, bragging, scheming race.

Allen

The Allens,

had lived near them too long, and he knew the young man on whom the Fullerton estate must devolve.