The next morning was fair, and Catherine almost expected another attack from the assembled party.

With Mr.Allen to support her, she felt no dread of the event: but she would gladly be spared a contest, where victory itself was painful, and was heartily rejoiced therefore at neither seeing nor hearing anything of them.

The Tilneys called for her at the appointed time; and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to fulfil her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself.
They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.
"I never look at it," said Catherine, as they walked along the side of the river, "without thinking of the south of France." "You have been abroad then ?" said Henry, a little surprised.
"Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about.

It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho.

But you never read novels, I dare say ?" "Why not ?" "Because they are not clever enough for you--gentlemen read better books." "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.