[Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookNorthanger Abbey CHAPTER 11 6/16
"We shall be able to do ten times more.
Kingsweston! Aye, and Blaize Castle too, and anything else we can hear of; but here is your sister says she will not go." "Blaize Castle!" cried Catherine.
"What is that' ?" "The finest place in England--worth going fifty miles at any time to see." "What, is it really a castle, an old castle ?" "The oldest in the kingdom." "But is it like what one reads of ?" "Exactly--the very same." "But now really--are there towers and long galleries ?" "By dozens." "Then I should like to see it; but I cannot--I cannot go. "Not go! My beloved creature, what do you mean' ?" "I cannot go, because"-- looking down as she spoke, fearful of Isabella's smile--"I expect Miss Tilney and her brother to call on me to take a country walk.
They promised to come at twelve, only it rained; but now, as it is so fine, I dare say they will be here soon." "Not they indeed," cried Thorpe; "for, as we turned into Broad Street, I saw them--does he not drive a phaeton with bright chestnuts ?" "I do not know indeed." "Yes, I know he does; I saw him.
You are talking of the man you danced with last night, are not you ?" "Yes. "Well, I saw him at that moment turn up the Lansdown Road, driving a smart-looking girl." "Did you indeed ?" "Did upon my soul; knew him again directly, and he seemed to have got some very pretty cattle too." "It is very odd! But I suppose they thought it would be too dirty for a walk." "And well they might, for I never saw so much dirt in my life.
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