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chapter-005And what are you reading, Miss?
chapter-005If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
chapter-017Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company in Gloucestershire?
chapter-002Had not we better go away as it is? chapter-002 It would have been very shocking to have it torn,"said she,"would not it?
chapter-002What shall we do? chapter-002 But, dear Mrs. Allen, are you sure there is nobody you know in all this multitude of people? chapter-002 How is my head, my dear? chapter-002 Sally, or rather Sarah( for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can? chapter-002 Who would not think so? chapter-031 The means by which their early marriage was effected can be the only doubt: what probable circumstance could work upon a temper like the general''s? chapter-027 And only made believe to do so for mischief''s sake?"
chapter-027Then you do not suppose he ever really cared about her?
chapter-027But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?"
chapter-027Why should he pay her such attentions as to make her quarrel with my brother, and then fly off himself?"
chapter-021That is a curious old chest, is not it?
chapter-021Allen''s?"
chapter-021By what means could it have been so long concealed?
chapter-021If not originally theirs, by what strange events could it have fallen into the Tilney family?
chapter-021The manuscript so wonderfully found, so wonderfully accomplishing the morning''s prediction, how was it to be accounted for?
chapter-021To whom could it relate?
chapter-021What can it hold?
chapter-021What could it contain?
chapter-021Why should it be placed here?
chapter-013But why can not Mr. Thorpe drive one of his other sisters? chapter-013 Dear madam,"cried Catherine,"then why did not you tell me so before?
chapter-013No; I had just engaged myself to walk with Miss Tilney before they told me of it; and therefore you know I could not go with them, could I?
chapter-013Well,said he,"and do you think of going too?"
chapter-013What did William mean by it? chapter-013 A pretty good thought of minehey?
chapter-013Do not you think it has an odd appearance, if young ladies are frequently driven about in them by young men, to whom they are not even related?"
chapter-013Do not you think these kind of projects objectionable?"
chapter-013Mrs. Allen, are not you of my way of thinking?
chapter-013Was it the part of a friend thus to expose her feelings to the notice of others?
chapter-029I can allow for his wishing Catherine away, when he recollected this engagement,said Sarah,"but why not do it civilly?"
chapter-029It was very agreeable, was not it? chapter-029 And nowwhat had she done, or what had she omitted to do, to merit such a change? chapter-029 Do you remember that evening?
chapter-029Mrs. Thorpe''s being there was such a comfort to us, was not it?
chapter-029My dear, do not you think these silk gloves wear very well?
chapter-029To the general, of course, he would not dare to speak; but to Eleanorwhat might he not say to Eleanor about her?
chapter-026And when do you think, sir, I may look forward to this pleasure? chapter-026 And why?"
chapter-026But how can you think of such a thing, after what the general said? chapter-026 How can you ask the question? chapter-026 How were people, at that rate, to be understood? chapter-026 What was there to interest or amuse her? chapter-026 Who but Henry could have been aware of what his father was at? chapter-026 Why do not you fit up this room, Mr. Tilney? chapter-023 And how long ago may it be that your mother died?"
chapter-023It remains as it was, I suppose?
chapter-023You were with her, I suppose, to the last?
chapter-023Can either of us be more meetly employed?
chapter-023Could Henry''s father?
chapter-023Could it be possible?
chapter-023To what might not those doors lead?
chapter-023What could more plainly speak the gloomy workings of a mind not wholly dead to every sense of humanity, in its fearful review of past scenes of guilt?
chapter-016And did Isabella never change her mind before?
chapter-016And must I go?
chapter-016Do not you intend it? chapter-016 Me?
chapter-016Shall I indeed? chapter-016 Then why did not you?"
chapter-016Why? chapter-016 After what you told him from me, how could he think of going to ask her?
chapter-016And so he hardly looked once at you the whole day?"
chapter-016Do you really desire it?
chapter-016What do you mean?"
chapter-028Have I offended the general?
chapter-028Then why, might she ask, in such a hurry herself to leave them?
chapter-028Can you, when you return from this lord''s, come to Fullerton?"
chapter-028Every hope, every expectation from him suspended, at least, and who could say how long?
chapter-028What can be the matter?"
chapter-028What could all this mean but an intentional affront?
chapter-028What so natural, as that anger should pass away and repentance succeed it?
chapter-028Who could say when they might meet again?
chapter-003And are you altogether pleased with Bath?
chapter-003And pray, sir, what do you think of Miss Morland''s gown?
chapter-003And what are they?
chapter-003Do you understand muslins, sir?
chapter-003Have you been to the theatre?
chapter-003Shall I tell you what you ought to say?
chapter-003To the concert?
chapter-003What are you thinking of so earnestly?
chapter-003Why should you be surprised, sir?
chapter-003Have you yet honoured the Upper Rooms?"
chapter-003How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal?
chapter-003How are your absent cousins to understand the tenour of your life in Bath without one?
chapter-003I have been very negligentbut are you now at leisure to satisfy me in these particulars?
chapter-003Then forming his features into a set smile, and affectedly softening his voice, he added, with a simpering air,"Have you been long in Bath, madam?"
chapter-003Were you never here before, madam?"
chapter-008And is that likely to satisfy me, do you think?
chapter-008But what is all this whispering about? chapter-008 Did you meet Mr. Tilney, my dear?"
chapter-008Do not you? chapter-008 My dear Isabella, how was it possible for me to get at you?
chapter-008No, where is he?
chapter-008Nonsense, how can you say so? chapter-008 Where can he be?"
chapter-008But where is her all- conquering brother?
chapter-008Is he in the room?
chapter-008John has charming spirits, has not he?"
chapter-008Tell him that it would quite shock you to see me do such a thing; now would not it?"
chapter-008Was not it so, Mr. Morland?
chapter-008What could induce you to come into this set, when you knew I was in the other?
chapter-008What is going on?"
chapter-018Are you? chapter-018 But I thought, Isabella, you had something in particular to tell me?"
chapter-018Do they? chapter-018 Why do you put such things into my head?
chapter-018Are your sisters coming?"
chapter-018But where am I wandering to?
chapter-018But who are you looking for?
chapter-018Well, my dear Catherine, the case seems to be that you are determined against poor Johnis not it so?"
chapter-018What I say is, why should a brother''s happiness be dearer to me than a friend''s?
chapter-018What can he write about, but yourself?
chapter-018What can you have to do with hearts?
chapter-020And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as''what one reads about''may produce? chapter-020 Are not you with her?"
chapter-020But how can that be?
chapter-020And what will you discern?
chapter-020Can you stand such a ceremony as this?
chapter-020Could you shrink from so simple an adventure?
chapter-020Have you a stout heart?
chapter-020Is not it a fine old place, just like what one reads about?"
chapter-020Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?"
chapter-020Well, what then?"
chapter-020Will not your heart sink within you?"
chapter-012And what do you think I said? chapter-012 But how came you to know him?"
chapter-012How came Mr. Thorpe to know your father?
chapter-012Allen?"
chapter-012And then what could I do?
chapter-012But what do you think we have been talking of?
chapter-012CHAPTER 12"Mrs. Allen,"said Catherine the next morning,"will there be any harm in my calling on Miss Tilney today?
chapter-012Did not they tell me that Mr. Tilney and his sister were gone out in a phaeton together?
chapter-012How can you say so?"
chapter-012If she felt such confidence in my good intentions, and could suppose it to be only a mistake, why should you be so ready to take offence?"
chapter-012Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration?
chapter-012What could they have to say of her?
chapter-012Would she be pleased to send up her name?
chapter-012You must have thought me so rude; but indeed it was not my own fault, was it, Mrs. Allen?
chapter-015Do you? chapter-015 May we?
chapter-015Shall not you be late at Devizes?
chapter-015She will never forgive me, I am sure; but, you know, how could I help it? chapter-015 Then why do you stay away so long?"
chapter-015But what will your excellent father and mother say?
chapter-015But when it did come, where could distress be found?
chapter-015Can youcan you really be in love with James?"
chapter-015Did you ever hear the old song''Going to One Wedding Brings on Another?''
chapter-015Let me only have the girl I like, say I, with a comfortable house over my head, and what care I for all the rest?
chapter-015My dear Isabella, what do you mean?
chapter-015Tomorrow?
chapter-015Well, and so you guessed it the moment you had my note?
chapter-015What do you think of it, Miss Morland?
chapter-015Who knows when we may be together again?
chapter-014I am sure,cried Catherine,"I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?"
chapter-014What am I to do?
chapter-014Why not?
chapter-014You have been abroad then?
chapter-014And of what nature?"
chapter-014But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?"
chapter-014But you never read novels, I dare say?"
chapter-014Can you?"
chapter-014He laughed, and added,"Come, shall I make you understand each other, or leave you to puzzle out an explanation as you can?
chapter-014If we proceed to particulars, and engage in the never- ceasing inquiry of''Have you read this?''
chapter-014What riot?"
chapter-014Where could you hear of such a thing?"
chapter-014You are fond of that kind of reading?"
chapter-014and''Have you read that?''
chapter-025Are they a wealthy family?
chapter-025But,said Eleanor, after a short pause,"would it be to promote his happiness, to enable him to marry such a girl?
chapter-025No,said Catherine, after a few moments''reflection,"I do notought I?
chapter-025What was her father?
chapter-025Will you take the trouble of reading to us the passages which concern my brother?
chapter-025You think it is all for ambition, then? chapter-025 Catherine took her place at the table, and, after a short silence, Eleanor said,No bad news from Fullerton, I hope?
chapter-025Could you have believed there had been such inconstancy and fickleness, and everything that is bad in the world?"
chapter-025Is not it inconceivable, Henry?
chapter-025Mr. and Mrs. Morlandyour brothers and sistersI hope they are none of them ill?"
chapter-025The absurdity of her curiosity and her fearscould they ever be forgotten?
chapter-025The liberty which her imagination had dared to take with the character of his fathercould he ever forgive it?
chapter-025You feel all this?"
chapter-007I suppose you mean Camilla?
chapter-007No sure; was it? chapter-007 Thank you; but will not your horse want rest?"
chapter-007Where did you get that quiz of a hat? chapter-007 A neat one, is not it? chapter-007 And how much do you think he did, Miss Morland?
chapter-007Are you fond of an open carriage, Miss Morland?"
chapter-007D,''said I;''I am your man; what do you ask?''
chapter-007He took out his watch:"How long do you think we have been running it from Tetbury, Miss Morland?"
chapter-007How do you do?"
chapter-007How fond all the family are of her; she is evidently the general favourite; and how much she must be admired in such a place as thisis not she?"
chapter-007Thorpe,''said he,''do you happen to want such a little thing as this?
chapter-007Thorpe?"
chapter-007What do you think of my gig, Miss Morland?
chapter-006And which way are they gone?
chapter-006Are they? chapter-006 Are you, indeed?
chapter-006How can you say so?
chapter-006They are not coming this way, are they? chapter-006 Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?"
chapter-006And now, what say you to going to Edgar''s Buildings with me, and looking at my new hat?
chapter-006Are not you wild to know?"
chapter-006But, my dearest Catherine, have you settled what to wear on your head tonight?
chapter-006But, my dearest Catherine, what have you been doing with yourself all this morning?
chapter-006Do you like them best dark or fair?"
chapter-006Do you scold them for not admiring her?"
chapter-006Have you gone on with Udolpho?"
chapter-006I hope you have not been here long?"
chapter-006That is an amazing horrid book, is it not?
chapter-006What are they all?"
chapter-006What do you mean?"
chapter-006Yes, quite; what can it be?
chapter-010And is that to be my only security? chapter-010 Do I?"
chapter-010Do you not?
chapter-010He never comes to the pump- room, I suppose?
chapter-010Shall you be at the cotillion ball tomorrow?
chapter-010What is the meaning of this? chapter-010 Am I never to be acquainted with him? chapter-010 Do you find Bath as agreeable as when I had the honour of making the inquiry before?
chapter-010Do you think her pretty?"
chapter-010Does he want a horse?
chapter-010How do you like my gown?
chapter-010Is he in the house now?
chapter-010My beloved Catherine, have I got you at last?"
chapter-010My sweetest Catherine, how have you been this long age?
chapter-010Was not the young lady he danced with on Monday a Miss Smith?"
chapter-010What chap have you there?"
chapter-010Who can ever be tired of Bath?"
chapter-010You really have done your hair in a more heavenly style than ever; you mischievous creature, do you want to attract everybody?
chapter-010You will allow all this?"
chapter-019Am I? chapter-019 And are you sure it is my brother''s doing?"
chapter-019But do you only ask what I can be expected to tell?
chapter-019But what can your brother mean? chapter-019 Does he?
chapter-019Is it my brother''s attentions to Miss Thorpe, or Miss Thorpe''s admission of them, that gives the pain?
chapter-019Is not it the same thing?
chapter-019My dear Miss Morland,said Henry,"in this amiable solicitude for your brother''s comfort, may you not be a little mistaken?
chapter-019Then you will persuade him to go away?
chapter-019Well?
chapter-019After a short pause, Catherine resumed with,"Then you do not believe Isabella so very much attached to my brother?"
chapter-019And what will then be their acquaintance?
chapter-019Are you not carried a little too far?
chapter-019But is not your father uncomfortable about it?
chapter-019Does not he want Captain Tilney to go away?
chapter-019He made no reply, and was beginning to talk of something else; but she eagerly continued,"Why do not you persuade him to go away?
chapter-019If he knows her engagement, what can he mean by his behaviour?"
chapter-019Is he safe only in solitude?
chapter-019Or is her heart constant to him only when unsolicited by anyone else?
chapter-019Then why does he stay here?"
chapter-024And may I not, in my turn,said he, as he pushed back the folding doors,"ask how you came here?
chapter-024Because it is my nearest way from the stable- yard to my own chamber; and why should I not come up it?
chapter-024But your father,said Catherine,"was he afflicted?"
chapter-024Have you had any letter from Bath since I saw you?
chapter-024Have you looked into all the rooms in that passage?
chapter-024How came you here? chapter-024 It has been your own doing entirely?"
chapter-024No, I only wanted to seeIs not it very late? chapter-024 Very; and does Eleanor leave you to find your way into all the rooms in the house by yourself?"
chapter-024Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?"
chapter-024Do our laws connive at them?
chapter-024Does our education prepare us for such atrocities?
chapter-024Eleanor, I suppose, has talked of her a great deal?"
chapter-024How came you up that staircase?"
chapter-024Is there anything extraordinary to be seen there?"
chapter-024My mother''s room is very commodious, is it not?
chapter-024Perhaps you did not knowyou were not aware of their leading from the offices in common use?"
chapter-024She sent you to look at it, I suppose?"
chapter-024What have you been judging from?
chapter-011And whose fault is that?
chapter-011And why can not he afford it?
chapter-011But is it like what one reads of?
chapter-011But now reallyare there towers and long galleries?
chapter-011But then, if they should only be gone out for an hour till it is dryer, and call by and by?
chapter-011Did you indeed?
chapter-011How could you deceive me so, Mr. Thorpe? chapter-011 I should like to see the castle; but may we go all over it?
chapter-011My sweetest Catherine, is not this delightful? chapter-011 Not they indeed,"cried Thorpe;"for, as we turned into Broad Street, I saw themdoes he not drive a phaeton with bright chestnuts?"
chapter-011What is that?
chapter-011What, is it really a castle, an old castle?
chapter-011Who? chapter-011 Allen?
chapter-011Allen?"
chapter-011But I dare say, Mr. Morland, you long to be at it, do not you?
chapter-011But to what purpose did she speak?
chapter-011How could you say that you saw them driving up the Lansdown Road?
chapter-011How could you say you saw them driving out in a phaeton?"
chapter-011How could you tell me they were gone?
chapter-011Is not that a great way off?
chapter-011It was dirty, indeed, but what did that signify?
chapter-011May we go up every staircase, and into every suite of rooms?"
chapter-011My beloved creature, what do you mean?"
chapter-011Where?"
chapter-011Why were not they more punctual?
chapter-011You are talking of the man you danced with last night, are not you?"
chapter-009And are Mr. and Mrs. Tilney in Bath?
chapter-009And is Mr. Tilney, my partner, the only son?
chapter-009And no children at all?
chapter-009And what did she tell you of them?
chapter-009Did she tell you what part of Gloucestershire they come from?
chapter-009Did you indeed? chapter-009 Did you see anybody else of our acquaintance?"
chapter-009Going to? chapter-009 Well, ma''am, what do you say to it?
chapter-009What do you mean?
chapter-009Where are you all going to?
chapter-009You have seen Mrs. Thorpe, then?
chapter-009A famous ball last night, was not it?
chapter-009And did they speak to you?"
chapter-009Can you spare me for an hour or two?
chapter-009Did not we agree together to take a drive this morning?
chapter-009Did you ever see such a little tittuppy thing in your life?
chapter-009Does he drink his bottle a day now?"
chapter-009Have you been waiting long?
chapter-009He is a very temperate man, and you could not fancy him in liquor last night?"
chapter-009He is your godfather, is not he?"
chapter-009How do you do, Mrs. Allen?
chapter-009Shall I go?"
chapter-009What is there in that?
chapter-009Why should you think of such a thing?
chapter-009Why, you do not suppose a man is overset by a bottle?
chapter-022And how might you learn? chapter-022 And ought it not,"reflected Catherine,"to endear it to her husband?
chapter-022But where are you going, Eleanor? chapter-022 Her picture, I suppose,"blushing at the consummate art of her own question,"hangs in your father''s room?"
chapter-022How were Mr. Allen''s succession- houses worked?
chapter-022Is it a pretty place?
chapter-022Was she a very charming woman? chapter-022 What say you, Eleanor?
chapter-022And though the love of a hyacinth may be rather domestic, who can tell, the sentiment once raised, but you may in time come to love a rose?"
chapter-022And was not it odd that he should always take his walk so early?
chapter-022And why had she been so partial to that grove?
chapter-022But when did she judge amiss?
chapter-022By accident or argument?"
chapter-022Could it be possible, or did not her senses play her false?
chapter-022Could not the adventure of the chest have taught her wisdom?
chapter-022Could there be any unwillingness on the general''s side to show her over the abbey?
chapter-022Has my sister a pleasant mode of instruction?"
chapter-022He did not love her walk: could he therefore have loved her?
chapter-022How could she have so imposed on herself?
chapter-022Was it from dejection of spirits?
chapter-022Was she handsome?
chapter-022Was there any picture of her in the abbey?
chapter-022Which did his daughter think would most accord with her fair friend''s wishes?
chapter-022Which would she prefer?
chapter-022Why do you choose that cold, damp path to it?
chapter-022Why was Miss Tilney embarrassed?