Austen Said:

on having preserved her gown from injury.

Thorpe;

how time had slipped away since they were last together, how little they had thought of meeting in Bath, and what a pleasure it was to see an old friend,

welcomed

to dine with them,

guess the price and weigh the merits of a new muff and tippet.

she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats, as they had agreed to join their party.

she was ready to go.

nothing of any of them.

the young people’s happiness,

Isabella’s beauty,

her great good luck.

the necessity of its concealment,

she could have known his intention,

she could have seen him before he went, as she should certainly have troubled him with her best regards to his father and mother, and her kind compliments to all the Skinners.

it might have been productive of much unpleasantness to her; that it was what they could never have voluntarily suffered; and that, in forcing her on such a measure, General Tilney had acted neither honourably nor feelingly — neither as a gentleman nor as a parent. Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill will,

they should call on Mrs. Allen.

the happiness of having such steady well-wishers as Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and the very little consideration which the neglect or unkindness of slight acquaintance like the Tilneys ought to have with her, while she could preserve the good opinion and affection of her earliest friends.

such an attention to her daughter,

this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time,

it probable, as a secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbours, that he might have some explanation to give of his father’s behaviour, which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to Catherine,

there being nothing like practice.