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"But how can that be?" said Catherine "Are not you with her?"

"Northanger is not more than half my home; I have an establishment at my own house in Woodston, which is nearly twenty miles from my father's, and some of my time is necessarily spent there"

"How sorry you must be for that!"

"I am always sorry to leave Eleanor"

"Yes; but besides your affection for her, youused to such a hoe-house reeable"

He smiled, and said, "You have formed a very favourable idea of the abbey"

"To be sure, I have Is not it a fine old place, just like what one reads about?"

"And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as 'what one reads about' may produce? Have you a stout heart?

Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?"

"Oh! yes--I do not think I should be easily frightened, because there would be so many people in the house--and besides, it has never been uninhabited and left deserted for years, and then the faenerally happens"

"No, certainly We shall not have to explore our way into a hall di eed to spread our beds on the floor of a room without s, doors, or furniture But youlady is (by whateverof this kind, she is always lodged apart froly repair to their own end of the house, she is formally conducted by Dorothy, the ancient housekeeper, up a different staircase, and along es, into an apartment never used since some cousin or kin died in it about twenty years before Can you stand such a cereive you when you find yourself in this gloomy chamber--too lofty and extensive for you, with only the feeble rays of a single la with tapestry exhibiting figures as large as life, and the bed, of dark green stuff or purple velvet, presenting even a funereal appearance? Will not your heart sink within you?"

"Oh! But this will not happen to me, I am sure"

"How fearfully will you examine the furniture of your apartment!