Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics)

It was performed with suitable quietness and uneventful safety. Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero

the refined susceptibilities,

moderation and composure

exacted her promise of transmitting

advice of the most important and applicable nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet

personal and mental endowments

Mr. Allen, who owned the chief of the property about Fullerton, the village in Wiltshire where the Morlands lived

father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children

things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly searched out

raptures by a prelude on the pianoforte