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Thin, awkward…

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Figure

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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy…

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Would have supposed her to be born a heroin

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Fond of all boys’ …

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Plays

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Rolling down the green slope…

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At the back of the house

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There was not one family among their acquaintances who had reared…

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And supported a boy accidentally found at their door

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I beg you Catherine, you will always wrap yourself…

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Up very warm around the throat

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Irksomeness of …

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Imprisonment

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No acquaintances to…

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Claim

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If not quite handsome…

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He was very near it

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It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman…

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Before the gentleman is first known to have dreamed of her.

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Isabella is the …

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Handsomest

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Miss Thorpe however, being four years older than miss Moreland…

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And at least four years better informed

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This sort of mysteriousness which is…

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Always so becoming In a hero

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For I will not adopt that u generous and impolitic custom…

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So common within novel writers

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But they are all horrid…

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Are you sure they are all horrid?

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For you are just the kind of girl to be…

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A great favourite with the men

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He was a stout young man of Middle height…

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With a plane face and ungrateful form

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But look at my horse…

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Have you ever seen an animal so made for speed in your life

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Mr. Allen thinks her…

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The prettiest girl in bath

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Catherine was then left to the luxury of the raised, restless and frightened imagination over the…

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Pages of Udolpho

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20
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Unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering him…

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Lost forever

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21
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What a sweet girl she is!

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I quite dote on her

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Old Allen is as rich as a Jew

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Is he not

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Catherine could not tell a falsehood

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Even to please Isabella

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As soon as they were joined by the Thorpes

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Catherine’s agony began

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That gentleman would have put me out of patience

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Had he stayed with you half a minuet longer

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I consider a country dance as an

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Emblem of marriage

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He was a very handsome man, of a commanding asspect

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Past the bloom, but not past the vigour of life

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Stop, stop

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Mr Thorpe

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Mr Thorpe only laughed, smacked his whip

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Encouraged his horse and drove on

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A pillow strewed with

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Thorns and wet with tears

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Oh Mr Tilneys, I have been quite wild to speak with you

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And make my apologies

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But I had ten thousand

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Times rather have been with you

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I would have jumped out

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And run after you

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Do not urge me Isabella.

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I am engaged to miss Tilney. I cannot go

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Catherine appeared to her ungenerous and selfish

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Regardless of everything but her own gratification

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At one moment she was softened, at another irritated

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Always distressed but always steady

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I had entered into my studies at Oxford while you were a

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Good girl working your sampler at home

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I have heard that something very shocking will soon come out of

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London

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It was no effort for Catherine to believe that

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Henry Tilney could ever be wrong

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Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean

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Can you really be In love with James

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Indeed Isabella you are to humble

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The difference of fortune can be nothing to signify

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My wishes were so moderate that the smallest

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Income in nature would be enough for me

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Damp passages, it’s narrow cells and ruined chapel

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Were to be within her daily reach

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I understand: she is in love with James and flirts with

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Frederick

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General Tilney, though so charming a man

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Seemed always to check upon his children’s spirits

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Henry drive so well - so quietly -

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Without making any disturbance

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How fearfully you will examine

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The furniture of your apartment

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And when with fainting spirits you attempt to fasten your door

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You discover with increasing alarm that it has no lock

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She found herself passing through the great gates of the lodge into the very grounds of north anger without having

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Discerned even an antique chimney

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The furniture was in all the profusion

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And elegance of modern taste

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The night was stormy the wind had been rising at intervals the whole afternoon and by the time the party broke up

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It blew and raised violently

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Catherine for a few moments was

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Motionless with horror

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Catherine trembled from

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Head to foot

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nothing could not be clearer than the

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Absurdities of her recent fancies

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There was another proof, a portrait, very like of a departed wife not valued by the husband

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He must have been dreadfully cruel to her

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Something was certainly to be

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Concealed

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Downcast eyes and a

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Contracted brow

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The probability that Mrs Tilney yet lived, shut up for causes unknown

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…was the conclusion which me necessarily followed

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Remember that we are English

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That we are Christians

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The visions of romances were over

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Catherine was completely awakened

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You feel, I suppose, that in loosing Isabella

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You loose half yourself

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Her anxiety had foundation in fact

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Her fears in probability

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Catherine was to wretched to be fearful

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The journey in itself had no terrors for her

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Catherine you always were a sad little scatter brained creature, but now you must have

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Been forced to have your whits about you

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It is a great comfort to find that she is not a poor

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Helpless creature

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But in her silence and sadness she was the very reverse

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Of all that she had been before

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