Northanger Abbey / Нортенгерское аббатство. Книга для чтения на английском языке

– «Замок Вульфенбаха», готический роман Элайзы Парсонс (1748–1811), написавшей более 60 томов, чтобы обеспечить себя и своих детей после смерти мужа; «Клермонт», произведение ирландской писательницы Ред-жины Марии Рош (1764–1845), готический роман; «Таинственные предостережения», готический роман Элайзы Парсонс; «Некромант, или Повесть Черного леса», роман Карла Фридриха Калерта, написанный под псевдонимом; «Полуночный колокол», готический роман английского писателя и драматурга Френсиса Лэтома (1774–1832); «Рейнский сирота», роман английской писательницы Элинор Смит; «Жуткие тайны», роман немецкого писателя Карла Гросса] Those will last us some time.

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“Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?”

“Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them. I wish you knew Miss Andrews, you would be delighted with her. She is netting herself the sweetest cloak you can conceive.

I think her as beautiful as an angel, and I am so vexed with the men for not admiring her! I scold them all amazingly about it.”

“Scold them! Do you scold them for not admiring her?”

“Yes, that I do. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong. I told Captain Hunt at one of our assemblies this winter that if he was to tease me all night, I would not dance with him, unless he would allow Miss Andrews to be as beautiful as an angel.

The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference. Now, if I were to hear anybody speak slightingly of you, I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely, for you are just the kind of girl to be a great favourite with the men.”

“Oh, dear!” cried Catherine, colouring.