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1  "Look at that young lady with the white beads round her head," whispered Catherine, detaching her friend from James.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
2  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.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
3  Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  It was built for a Christchurch man, a friend of mine, a very good sort of fellow; he ran it a few weeks, till, I believe, it was convenient to have done with it.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  A pre-engagement in Edgar's Buildings prevented his accepting the invitation of one friend, and obliged him to hurry away as soon as he had satisfied the demands of the other.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
6  The female part of the Thorpe family, attended by James Morland, appeared among the crowd in less than a quarter of an hour, and Catherine immediately took her usual place by the side of her friend.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes; but they were repeated so often, and proved so totally ineffectual, that Catherine grew tired at last, and would thank her no more.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  She had found some acquaintance, had been so lucky too as to find in them the family of a most worthy old friend; and, as the completion of good fortune, had found these friends by no means so expensively dressed as herself.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
9  Catherine, though a little disappointed, had too much good nature to make any opposition, and the others rising up, Isabella had only time to press her friend's hand and say, "Good-bye, my dear love," before they hurried off.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
10  It was a subject, however, in which she often indulged with her fair friend, from whom she received every possible encouragement to continue to think of him; and his impression on her fancy was not suffered therefore to weaken.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
11  In a very few minutes she reappeared, having scarcely allowed the two others time enough to get through a few short sentences in her praise, after Thorpe had procured Mrs. Allen's admiration of his gig; and then receiving her friend's parting good wishes, they both hurried downstairs.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
12  Catherine then ran directly upstairs, and watched Miss Thorpe's progress down the street from the drawing-room window; admired the graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her figure and dress; and felt grateful, as well she might, for the chance which had procured her such a friend.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
13  It was ages since she had had a moment's conversation with her dearest Catherine; and, though she had such thousands of things to say to her, it appeared as if they were never to be together again; so, with smiles of most exquisite misery, and the laughing eye of utter despondency, she bade her friend adieu and went on.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
14  These manners did not please Catherine; but he was James's friend and Isabella's brother; and her judgment was further bought off by Isabella's assuring her, when they withdrew to see the new hat, that John thought her the most charming girl in the world, and by John's engaging her before they parted to dance with him that evening.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
15  The dancing began within a few minutes after they were seated; and James, who had been engaged quite as long as his sister, was very importunate with Isabella to stand up; but John was gone into the card-room to speak to a friend, and nothing, she declared, should induce her to join the set before her dear Catherine could join it too.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
16  In the pump-room, one so newly arrived in Bath must be met with, and that building she had already found so favourable for the discovery of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for secret discourses and unlimited confidence, that she was most reasonably encouraged to expect another friend from within its walls.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
17  With more care for the safety of her new gown than for the comfort of her protegee, Mrs. Allen made her way through the throng of men by the door, as swiftly as the necessary caution would allow; Catherine, however, kept close at her side, and linked her arm too firmly within her friend's to be torn asunder by any common effort of a struggling assembly.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
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