Austen Said:

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.

she must speak with Miss Tilney that moment,

John Thorpe had given the message;

owning herself greatly surprised by it.

he might be sometimes depended on.

with the servant whose neglect had reduced her to open the door of the apartment herself.

if she would do his daughter the honour of dining and spending the rest of the day with her.

was greatly obliged; but it was quite out of her power. Mr. and Mrs. Allen would expect her back every moment.

he could say no more; the claims of Mr. and Mrs. Allen were not to be superseded; but on some other day he trusted, when longer notice could be given, they would not refuse to spare her to her friend.

“Oh, no; Catherine was sure they would not have the least objection, and she should have great pleasure in coming.”

the elasticity of her walk, which corresponded exactly with the spirit of her dancing,

walking,

with great elasticity,

whether she had been perfectly right. A sacrifice was always noble; and if she had given way to their entreaties, she should have been spared the distressing idea of a friend displeased, a brother angry, and a scheme of great happiness to both destroyed, perhaps through her means.

whether it would not be both proper and kind in her to write to Miss Thorpe, and explain the indecorum of which she must be as insensible as herself; for she considered that Isabella might otherwise perhaps be going to Clifton the next day, in spite of what had passed.

what would the Tilneys have thought of her, if she had broken her promise to them in order to do what was wrong in itself, if she had been guilty of one breach of propriety, only to enable her to be guilty of another?

It seemed as if a good view were no longer to be taken from the top of an high hill, and that a clear blue sky was no longer a proof of a fine day.

she would give anything in the world to be able to draw;

her having a great deal of natural taste.

foregrounds, distances, and second distances — side-screens and perspectives — lights and shades;

Henry Tilney could never be wrong.

His manner might sometimes surprise, but his meaning must always be just:

nothing of any of them.

two of the sweetest girls in the world,

her dear friends

the party had not been prevented by her refusing to join it,

it might be too pleasant to allow either James or Isabella to resent her resistance any longer.

it had been altogether the most delightful scheme in the world,

nobody could imagine how charming it had been,

it had been more delightful than anybody could conceive.

they had driven directly to the York Hotel, ate some soup, and bespoke an early dinner, walked down to the pump-room, tasted the water, and laid out some shillings in purses and spars; thence adjoined to eat ice at a pastry-cook’s, and hurrying back to the hotel, swallowed their dinner in haste, to prevent being in the dark; and then had a delightful drive back, only the moon was not up, and it rained a little, and Mr. Morland’s horse was so tired he could hardly get it along.

Blaize Castle had never been thought of; and, as for all the rest, there was nothing to regret for half an instant.

insupportably cross, from being excluded the party.

Her heart and faith were alike engaged to James.

Her brother and her friend engaged!

The happiness of having such a sister

the power of love;

nothing could have been safer;

her father and mother would never oppose their son’s wishes.

he would go.

Isabella’s engagement as the most fortunate circumstance imaginable for their family,

being one of the finest fellows in the world,

a good journey.

the young people’s happiness,

Isabella’s beauty,

her great good luck.

the necessity of its concealment,

she could have known his intention,