[Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookNorthanger Abbey CHAPTER 6 10/11
Pray let me know if they are coming.
I am determined I will not look up." In a few moments Catherine, with unaffected pleasure, assured her that she need not be longer uneasy, as the gentlemen had just left the pump-room. "And which way are they gone ?" said Isabella, turning hastily round. "One was a very good-looking young man." "They went towards the church-yard." "Well, I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them! And now, what say you to going to Edgar's Buildings with me, and looking at my new hat? You said you should like to see it." Catherine readily agreed.
"Only," she added, "perhaps we may overtake the two young men." "Oh! Never mind that.
If we make haste, we shall pass by them presently, and I am dying to show you my hat." "But if we only wait a few minutes, there will be no danger of our seeing them at all." "I shall not pay them any such compliment, I assure you.
I have no notion of treating men with such respect.
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