[Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookNorthanger Abbey CHAPTER 29 12/13
I have a notion you danced with him, but am not quite sure.
I remember I had my favourite gown on." Catherine could not answer; and, after a short trial of other subjects, Mrs.Allen again returned to--"I really have not patience with the general! Such an agreeable, worthy man as he seemed to be! I do not suppose, Mrs.Morland, you ever saw a better-bred man in your life.
His lodgings were taken the very day after he left them, Catherine.
But no wonder; Milsom Street, you know." As they walked home again, Mrs.Morland endeavoured to impress on her daughter's mind the happiness of having such steady well-wishers as Mr. and Mrs.Allen, and the very little consideration which the neglect or unkindness of slight acquaintance like the Tilneys ought to have with her, while she could preserve the good opinion and affection of her earliest friends.
There was a great deal of good sense in all this; but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power; and Catherine's feelings contradicted almost every position her mother advanced.
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