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Northanger Abbey

CHAPTER 13
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Mr.Thorpe had no business to invent any such message.
If I had thought it right to put it off, I could have spoken to Miss Tilney myself.

This is only doing it in a ruder way; and how do I know that Mr.Thorpe has--He may be mistaken again perhaps; he led me into one act of rudeness by his mistake on Friday.

Let me go, Mr.Thorpe; Isabella, do not hold me." Thorpe told her it would be in vain to go after the Tilneys; they were turning the corner into Brock Street, when he had overtaken them, and were at home by this time.
"Then I will go after them," said Catherine; "wherever they are I will go after them.

It does not signify talking.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it." And with these words she broke away and hurried off.


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