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And yet, this was to happen With all the chances against her of house, hall, place, park, court, and cottage, Northanger turned up an abbey, and she was to be its inhabitant Its long, daes, its narrow cells and ruined chapel, were to be within her daily reach, and she could not entirely subdue the hope of soends, some awful memorials of an injured and ill-fated nun

It onderful that her friends should seem so little elated by the possession of such a home, that the consciousness of it should be so meekly borne The power of early habit only could account for it A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride

Their superiority of abode was no more to them than their superiority of person

Many were the inquiries she was eager to hts, that when these inquiries were answered, she was hardlybeen a richly endowed convent at the ti fallen into the hands of an ancestor of the Tilneys on its dissolution, of a large portion of the ancient building still h the rest was decayed, or of its standing low in a valley, sheltered fro woods of oak