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"Oh! No, no--do not say so Well, go on"

But Henry was too much amused by the interest he had raised to be able to carry it farther; he could no longer coed to entreat her to use her own fancy in the perusal of Matilda's woes Catherine, recollecting herself, grew ashaan earnestly to assure him that her attention had been fixed without the s hat he related

"Miss Tilney, she was sure, would never put her into such a chamber as he had described! She was not at all afraid"

As they drew near the end of their journey, her iht of the abbey--for some time suspended by his conversation on subjects very different--returned in full force, and every bend in the road was expected with solerey stone, rising arove of ancient oaks, with the last beah Gothic s But so low did the building stand, that she found herself passing through the great gates of the lodge into the very grounds of Northanger, without having discerned even an antique chiht to be surprised, but there was a so in this mode of approach which she certainly had not expected To pass between lodges of a modern appearance, to find herself with such ease in the very precincts of the abbey, and driven so rapidly along a sravel, without obstacle, alarm, or solemnity of any kind, struck her as odd and inconsistent She was not long at leisure, however, for such considerations A sudden scud of rain, driving full in her face,further, and fixed all her thoughts on the welfare of her new straw bonnet; and she was actually under the abbey walls, was springing, with Henry's assistance, froe, was beneath the shelter of the old porch, and had even passed on to the hall, where her friend and the general aiting to welco of future misery to herself, or oneacted within the solehs of theworse than a thick ood shake to her habit, she was ready to be shown into the co where she was