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no two hours and a half had ever gone off so swiftly before,
It was ages since she had had a moment’s conversation with her dearest Catherine; and, though she had such thousands of things to say to her, it appeared as if they were never to be together again;
she was vastly pleased at your all going.”
Mrs. Tilney was a Miss Drummond, and she and Mrs. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and, when she married, her father gave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes. Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse.”
there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr. Drummond gave his daughter on her wedding-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died.”
he is a very fine young man,
and likely to do very well.”
he is the most delightful young man in the world; she saw him this morning,
she was ready to go.
her folly, in supposing that among such a crowd they should even meet with the Tilneys in any reasonable time,
To escape,
so narrowly escape John Thorpe, and to be asked, so immediately on his joining her, asked by Mr. Tilney, as if he had sought her on purpose! — it did not appear to her that life could supply any greater felicity.
she might find nobody to go with her,
they should join in a walk, some morning or other.
  • Novel: Northanger Abbey
  • Character: Narrator as Henry, Eleanor Tilney and Eleanor Tilney
  • Link to text in chapter 10
  • Text ID: 00745
it did not rain,
it would not.
A bright morning so early in the year,
would generally turn to rain, but a cloudy one foretold improvement as the day advanced.
if it still kept on raining another five minutes, she would give up the matter as hopeless.
they were going as far as Wick Rocks.”
the Tilneys had acted quite well by her, in so readily giving up their engagement, without sending her any message of excuse. It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk;
they might have gone with very little inconvenience.
he had never seen two men so much alike in his life,
what was the matter.
a gentleman and lady had called and inquired for her a few minutes after her setting off;
when he told them she was gone out with Mr. Thorpe, the lady had asked whether any message had been left for her; and on his saying no, had felt for a card, but said she had none about her, and went away.
her beloved Isabella and her dear family,
believed Miss Tilney to be at home, but was not quite certain. Would she be pleased to send up her name?
he had been mistaken, for that Miss Tilney was walked out.
“quite horrid.”
make room for him,
What could they have to say of her?
General Tilney did not like her appearance:
it was implied in his preventing her admittance to his daughter, rather than postpone his own walk a few minutes.
knew nothing about it; but his father, like every military man, had a very large acquaintance.
whether she had seen him talking with General Tilney:
you the finest girl in Bath.”
there was not one of the family whom she need now fear to meet.
The evening had done more, much more, for her than could have been expected.
provided the weather were fair, the party should take place on the following morning; and they were to set off very early, in order to be at home in good time.
was very sorry, but could not go. The engagement which ought to have kept her from joining in the former attempt would make it impossible for her to accompany them now. She had that moment settled with Miss Tilney to take their proposed walk tomorrow; it was quite determined, and she would not, upon any account, retract.
she must and should retract
they must go to Clifton tomorrow, they would not go without her, it would be nothing to put off a mere walk for one day longer, and they would not hear of a refusal.
her dearest, sweetest Catherine would not seriously refuse such a trifling request to a friend who loved her so dearly. She knew her beloved Catherine to have so feeling a heart, so sweet a temper, to be so easily persuaded by those she loved.
having more affection for Miss Tilney, though she had known her so little a while, than for her best and oldest friends, with being grown cold and indifferent, in short, towards herself.
Was it the part of a friend thus to expose her feelings to the notice of others? Isabella appeared to her ungenerous and selfish, regardless of everything but her own gratification.
If they would only put off their scheme till Tuesday, which they might easily do, as it depended only on themselves, she could go with them, and everybody might then be satisfied.
When everything was settled, when Miss Tilney herself said that Tuesday would suit her as well, it was quite ridiculous, quite absurd, to make any further objection.
it would be in vain to go after the Tilneys; they were turning the corner into Brock Street, when he had overtaken them, and were at home by this time.
Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong. She had not been withstanding them on selfish principles alone, she had not consulted merely her own gratification; that might have been ensured in some degree by the excursion itself, by seeing Blaize Castle; no, she had attended to what was due to others, and to her own character in their opinion.