https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/ This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That any bookseller should think it worth-whi... en https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/11/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/11/ The Allens, Thorpes, and Morlands all met in the evening at the theatre; and, as Catherine and Isabella sat together, there was then an opportunity for the latter to utter some... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/31/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/31/ Soon after this, the General found himself obliged to go to London for a week; and he left Northanger earnestly regretting that any necessity should rob him even for an hour of... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/15/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/15/ The next morning was fair, and Catherine almost expected another attack from the assembled party. With Mr. Allen to support her, she felt no dread of the event: but she would gl... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/32/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/32/ Catherine was too wretched to be fearful. The journey in itself had no terrors for her; and she began it without either dreading its length or feeling its solitariness. Leaning... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/10/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/10/ The progress of Catherine’s unhappiness from the events of the evening was as follows. It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with everybody about her, while she remaine... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/16/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/16/ Early the next day, a note from Isabella, speaking peace and tenderness in every line, and entreating the immediate presence of her friend on a matter of the utmost importance,... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/21/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/21/ Mr. and Mrs. Allen were sorry to lose their young friend, whose good humour and cheerfulness had made her a valuable companion, and in the promotion of whose enjoyment their own... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/14/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/14/ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday have now passed in review before the reader; the events of each day, its hopes and fears, mortifications and pleasures... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/12/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/12/ The morrow brought a very sober-looking morning, the sun making only a few efforts to appear, and Catherine augured from it everything most favourable to her wishes. A bright mo... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/22/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/22/ A moment’s glance was enough to satisfy Catherine that her apartment was very unlike the one which Henry had endeavoured to alarm her by the description of. It was by no means u... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/33/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/33/ Catherine’s disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious; but whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother co... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/8/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/8/ Half a minute conducted them through the pump-yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage; but here they were stopped. Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulti... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/26/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/26/ The next day afforded no opportunity for the proposed examination of the mysterious apartments. It was Sunday, and the whole time between morning and afternoon service was requi... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/17/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/17/ Catherine’s expectations of pleasure from her visit in Milsom Street were so very high that disappointment was inevitable; and accordingly, though she was most politely received... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/9/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/9/ In spite of Udolpho and the dressmaker, however, the party from Pulteney Street reached the Upper Rooms in very good time. The Thorpes and James Morland were there only two minu... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/29/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/29/ From this time, the subject was frequently canvassed by the three young people; and Catherine found, with some surprise, that her two young friends were perfectly agreed in cons... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/25/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/25/ An hour passed away before the General came in, spent, on the part of his young guest, in no very favourable consideration of his character. “This lengthened absence, these soli... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/23/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/23/ The housemaid’s folding back her window-shutters at eight o’clock the next day was the sound which first roused Catherine; and she opened her eyes, wondering that they could eve... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/3/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/3/ In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland’s personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks’... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/19/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/19/ With a mind thus full of happiness, Catherine was hardly aware that two or three days had passed away, without her seeing Isabella for more than a few minutes together. She bega... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/13/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/13/ Catherine cheerfully complied, and being properly equipped, was more impatient than ever to be at the pump-room, that she might inform herself of General Tilney’s lodgings, for... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/4/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/4/ Every morning now brought its regular duties—shops were to be visited; some new part of the town to be looked at; and the Pump-room to be attended, where they paraded up and dow... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/7/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/7/ The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen of their v... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/20/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/20/ A few days passed away, and Catherine, though not allowing herself to suspect her friend, could not help watching her closely. The result of her observations was not agreeable.... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/27/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/27/ The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late f... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/28/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/28/ leisure for noticing her; but to the other two her distress was equally visible. As soon as she dared leave the table she hurried away to her own room; but the housemaids were b... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/18/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/18/ The Allens had now entered on the sixth week of their stay in Bath; and whether it should be the last was for some time a question, to which Catherine listened with a beating he... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/2/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/2/ No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own p... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/30/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/30/ My dearest Catherine, I received your two kind letters with the greatest delight, and have a thousand apologies to make for not answering them sooner. I really am quite ashamed... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/5/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/5/ With more than usual eagerness did Catherine hasten to the pump-room the next day, secure within herself of seeing Mr. Tilney there before the morning were over, and ready to me... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/6/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/6/ Catherine was not so much engaged at the theatre that evening, in returning the nods and smiles of Miss Thorpe, though they certainly claimed much of her leisure, as to forget t... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/34/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/34/ Mr. and Mrs. Morland’s surprise on being applied to by Mr. Tilney for their consent to his marrying their daughter was, for a few minutes, considerable, it having never entered... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/24/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/24/ his. The utmost care could not always secure the most valuable fruits. The pinery had yielded only one hundred in the last year. Mr. Allen, he supposed, must feel these inconven... https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/1/ https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/northanger-abbey-121/chapters/1/ This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceede...