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she should like it,
not bear it;
she looked quite as she should do.
on having preserved her gown from injury.
“strange.”
he indulged himself a little too much with the foibles of others.
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,
her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy with a young man of his own college, of the name of Thorpe;
he had spent the last week of the Christmas vacation with his family, near London.
of their wish of being better acquainted with her; of being considered as already friends, through the friendship of their brothers, etc.,
  • Novel: Northanger Abbey
  • Character: Narrator as Isabella Thorpe, Anne Thorpe and Maria Thorpe
  • Link to text in chapter 4
  • Text ID: 00193
He must be gone from Bath. Yet he had not mentioned that his stay would be so short!
he must be a charming young man, and was equally sure that he must have been delighted with her dear Catherine, and would therefore shortly return.
'a brown skin, with dark eyes, and rather dark hair.'
she need not be longer uneasy, as the gentlemen had just left the pump-room.
you should like to see it.”
John thought her the most charming girl in the world,
the prettiest girl in Bath.”
guess the price and weigh the merits of a new muff and tippet.
nothing,
should induce her to join the set before her dear Catherine could join it too.
she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats, as they had agreed to join their party.
she was sure you would not have the least objection to letting in this young lady by you.”
how well the other liked Bath, how much she admired its buildings and surrounding country, whether she drew, or played, or sang, and whether she was fond of riding on horseback.
  • Novel: Northanger Abbey
  • Character: Narrator as Catherine Morland and Eleanor Tilney
  • Link to text in chapter 8
  • Text ID: 00446
to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one;
seeing Miss Tilney again could at that moment bear a short delay in favour of a drive,
there could be no impropriety in her going with Mr. Thorpe, as Isabella was going at the same time with James,
he must know the carriage to be in fact perfectly safe,
It was inconceivable, incredible, impossible!
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,
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.
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.
her beloved Isabella and her dear family,