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Giovani 2022-11-24 03:50:32
A romantic love journey full of mystery
On the train to London, passing by Bath, came up a slender British beauty. After slowly taking her seat, she took out a novel and read it fascinatingly. As soon as she got off the bus, she put away the book and found that it was Northanger Abbey. After a few casual chats, it turned out that she was...
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Ernest 2022-12-04 06:03:09
Lively Northanger Abbey
I watched another Jane Austen work, Northanger. Abbey, and finally finished it off and on for a few days.
Every Austen work has her own shadow, and this one is no exception. The heroine, Katherine Moran, is a girl who loves to read weird novels. She has a bright nature and thinks more about ghosts...
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Mrs. Allen: There! Did you ever see anything prettier, Mr Allen?
Mr. Allen: Other than yourself, do you mean, my dear?
Mrs. Allen: Oh, fine, Mr Allen! But Catherine...
Mr. Allen: Ah, she looks just as she should! Now... might we make our way, do you think? I entertain high hopes of our arriving at the rooms by midnight.
Mrs. Allen: How he teases us, Catherine! Midnight, indeed!
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[Riding in the curricle, Henry and Catherine see the first view of Northanger Abbey]
Henry Tilney: There.
Catherine Morland: It's exactly as I imagined. It's just like what we read about.
Henry Tilney: Are you prepared to encounter all of its horrors?
Catherine Morland: Horrors? Is Northanger haunted, then?
Henry Tilney: That's just the least of it. Dungeons, and sliding panels; skeletons; strange, unearthly cries in the night that pierce your very soul!
Catherine Morland: [sardonically] Any vampires? Don't say vampires. I could bear anything, but not vampires.
Henry Tilney: [laughing] Miss Morland, I believe you are teasing me now.
[seriously]
Henry Tilney: I have to say, there is a kind of vampirism. No, let's just say that all houses have their secrets, and Northanger is no exception.
