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Northanger Abbey

CHAPTER 26
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It was a prettily shaped room, the windows reaching to the ground, and the view from them pleasant, though only over green meadows; and she expressed her admiration at the moment with all the honest simplicity with which she felt it.

"Oh! Why do not you fit up this room, Mr.Tilney?
What a pity not to have it fitted up! It is the prettiest room I ever saw; it is the prettiest room in the world!" "I trust," said the general, with a most satisfied smile, "that it will very speedily be furnished: it waits only for a lady's taste!" "Well, if it was my house, I should never sit anywhere else.

Oh! What a sweet little cottage there is among the trees--apple trees, too! It is the prettiest cottage!" "You like it--you approve it as an object--it is enough.

Henry, remember that Robinson is spoken to about it.

The cottage remains." Such a compliment recalled all Catherine's consciousness, and silenced her directly; and, though pointedly applied to by the general for her choice of the prevailing colour of the paper and hangings, nothing like an opinion on the subject could be drawn from her.


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