[Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookNorthanger Abbey CHAPTER 25 14/16
"But," said Eleanor, after a short pause, "would it be to promote his happiness, to enable him to marry such a girl? She must be an unprincipled one, or she could not have used your brother so.
And how strange an infatuation on Frederick's side! A girl who, before his eyes, is violating an engagement voluntarily entered into with another man! Is not it inconceivable, Henry? Frederick too, who always wore his heart so proudly! Who found no woman good enough to be loved!" "That is the most unpromising circumstance, the strongest presumption against him.
When I think of his past declarations, I give him up. Moreover, I have too good an opinion of Miss Thorpe's prudence to suppose that she would part with one gentleman before the other was secured.
It is all over with Frederick indeed! He is a deceased man--defunct in understanding.
Prepare for your sister-in-law, Eleanor, and such a sister-in-law as you must delight in! Open, candid, artless, guileless, with affections strong but simple, forming no pretensions, and knowing no disguise." "Such a sister-in-law, Henry, I should delight in," said Eleanor with a smile. "But perhaps," observed Catherine, "though she has behaved so ill by our family, she may behave better by yours.
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