There never was a young woman so beloved as you are by every body that knows you and I dare say when Mr. “I know you never do, my dear and you will always find your reward in the affection it makes every body feel for you.

For myself, it is nothing I never think of myself.” “It is not on my own account I wish for more but I cannot bear to be the means of injuring my dear Morland, making him sit down upon an income hardly enough to find one in the common necessaries of life. Allen's, and James, as the door was closed on them, said, “Well, Catherine, how do you like my friend Thorpe?” instead of answering, as she probably would have done, had there been no friendship and no flattery in the case, “I do not like him at all ” she directly replied, “I like him very much he seems very agreeable.” Had she been older or vainer, such attacks might have done little but, where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world, and of being so very early engaged as a partner and the consequence was, that, when the two Morlands, after sitting an hour with the Thorpes, set off to walk together to Mr.

These manners did not please Catherine but he was James's friend and Isabella's brother and her judgment was further bought off by Isabella's assuring her, when they withdrew to see the new hat, that John thought her the most charming girl in the world, and by John's engaging her before they parted to dance with him that evening.

Northanger abbey