[Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookNorthanger Abbey CHAPTER 11 12/16
It will never do.
We set out a great deal too late.
We had much better put it off till another day, and turn round." "It is all one to me," replied Thorpe rather angrily; and instantly turning his horse, they were on their way back to Bath. "If your brother had not got such a d--beast to drive," said he soon afterwards, "we might have done it very well.
My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade's pace.
Morland is a fool for not keeping a horse and gig of his own." "No, he is not," said Catherine warmly, "for I am sure he could not afford it." "And why cannot he afford it ?" "Because he has not money enough." "And whose fault is that ?" "Nobody's, that I know of." Thorpe then said something in the loud, incoherent way to which he had often recourse, about its being a d--thing to be miserly; and that if people who rolled in money could not afford things, he did not know who could, which Catherine did not even endeavour to understand.
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