[Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookNorthanger Abbey CHAPTER 15 9/19
Morland says that by sending it tonight to Salisbury, we may have it tomorrow. Tomorrow? I know I shall never have courage to open the letter.
I know it will be the death of me." A reverie succeeded this conviction--and when Isabella spoke again, it was to resolve on the quality of her wedding-gown. Their conference was put an end to by the anxious young lover himself, who came to breathe his parting sigh before he set off for Wiltshire. Catherine wished to congratulate him, but knew not what to say, and her eloquence was only in her eyes.
From them, however, the eight parts of speech shone out most expressively, and James could combine them with ease.
Impatient for the realization of all that he hoped at home, his adieus were not long; and they would have been yet shorter, had he not been frequently detained by the urgent entreaties of his fair one that he would go.
Twice was he called almost from the door by her eagerness to have him gone.
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