Chapter 19 Chapter Seventeen

The Allen couple's trip to Bath is now in its sixth week.Whether this will be the last week is not yet certain.Catherine's heart skipped a beat when she heard this.Her association with the Tilneys was coming to an end so soon that the loss was irreparable.While the matter was up in the air, her whole well-being seemed threatened; and it was only when she decided to renew the lease of the house for another two weeks that she felt at ease.With the addition of these two weeks, Catherine only thought that she could see Henry from time to time.Tilney, she gave little thought to what good it might bring.Indeed, once or twice since James's engagement had opened her horizons, she had indulged in private fantasies.Generally speaking, however, her eyes were confined to the present meeting with Henry.Tierney stayed happily together.There were still three weeks before the so-called present, and since happiness was guaranteed during this period, the rest of her life was so far away that it did not arouse her interest at all.

On the very morning when this decision was made, she called on Miss Tilney, and confessed her joy.But this day is destined to be a tortured day.No sooner had she expressed her pleasure at Mr. Allen's decision to stay longer than Miss Tilney told her that her father had just decided to leave Bath in a week's time.What a hit!Compared with the present disappointment, the suspense of the morning was simply comforting and peaceful.Catherine's face darkened, and she repeated Miss Tilney's last words in a tone of great sincerity and concern: Another week! . Yes.I think my father should try the mineral water here, but he won't listen.He had expected to meet some friends here, but to his disappointment, his friends never came. Since he is in good health now, he is anxious to go home.

What a pity, said Catherine despondently.if i had known Perhaps, said Miss Tilney with embarrassment, I should be very glad if you would do me the favor, if Catherine was expecting Miss Tilney's polite wish to correspond, when General Tilney entered and interrupted the conversation.After greeting Catherine with his usual civility, he turned to his daughter, and said.Well, Eleanor, you come to beg the favor of your pretty friend.May I congratulate you on your success? Dad, I was about to speak when you came in. Well, let's move on.I know how much you want to bring this up.Miss Morland, continued General Tilney, without giving her a chance to speak, my daughter has made a presumptuous request, as she may have told you, that we leave Bath next Saturday.The housekeeper wrote to ask me to go back.I would have liked to see some old friends here, the Marquess Langton and General Courtney, but now that I can't see them, there is no need for me to stay in Bath.If you can be persuaded to agree to our selfish request, we will have no regrets about leaving.In short, would you not leave this tourist resort and join your friend Elinor in Gloucestershire?I'm almost ashamed to ask it, though you don't find it as presumptuous as the people of Bath.A humble man like you but I never want to hurt your humility with public praise.If you would condescend to come and visit us, we would be overjoyed beyond description.It's a bustling place, indeed, and there's no such fun in our house.We cannot entice you with entertainment and luxury.Because, as you can see, our way of life is simple and unpretentious.However, we will try to make Northanger Abbey less terribly obnoxious.

Northanger Abbey!What an exciting word, Catherine was extremely excited.She couldn't contain the joy in her heart, she couldn't even speak calmly, it was such a compliment to invite her!So enthusiastically ask her for company!Everything was so respectable, so comforting, all the joy of the present, all the hope of the future.Everything is included in it.Catherine eagerly accepted the invitation, with one reservation.Get permission from your parents.I wrote home right away and she said if they didn't object, I bet they wouldn't General Tilney, who had visited Catherine's dear friend in Pulteney Street, and that the Allens had granted his request, was equally optimistic.Since the Allens agree with you, he said, others will be reasonable.

Although Miss Tilney was more gentle, she was very earnest in helping.After a while.Things have been negotiated, just waiting for Fullerton's approval. The events of this morning had made Catherine feel suspense, relief, and disappointment in her heart, but now she was immersed in the utmost joy.She was in a state of ecstasy, full of thoughts of Henry, and of Northanger Abbey, and hurriedly wrote home.The Morans have given their daughter to friends and are believed to be cautious.Feeling that the friendship formed with their approval must be justified, she sent a reply from the original post, and readily agreed to her daughter's visit to Gloucestershire.Although this favor did not exceed Catherine's expectations, it made her believe 100% that she was more unique than anyone else in relatives, luck, circumstances and opportunities.It was as if all the factors were working together to perfect her.

At first, through the kindness of her friends the Allens, she had access to these scenes, and had a taste of all kinds of pleasure.Every emotion, every fondness, was happily rewarded.No matter who she likes, she can establish a close friendship with them.Isabella's great love for her will be fixed by the sister-in-law relationship.She hoped above all to win the affections of the Tierneys, and the Tierneys took this unexpected measure, and their close relationship was perpetuated.She was going to be their guest, living for a few weeks in the same house with the people she liked the most.Not to mention, this house is still a monastery!Her love of old buildings was second only to that of Henry.Tierney.When she was not thinking of Tilney, castles and monasteries usually constituted the most attractive things in her dreams.For several weeks, she has been fascinated by the hope that she can go to the walls and towers of the old castles, or the corridors of the monasteries to have a look, to have a look, to investigate, as long as she can go shopping for an hour, it seems impossible to hope. Achieved.However, something was about to happen.What she wanted to see was not ordinary houses, mansions, mansions, manors, courts, or villas. Northanger happened to be a monastery, and she wanted to live in the monastery.Every day she was exposed to damp corridors, narrow secret rooms, and ruined chapels, and she couldn't help but wish to hear some long-held legends and see some terrible records about an unfortunate nun.

The surprising part is.Her friends did not seem to be complacent about having such a home.They were always so humble when they thought of their home.This can only be explained by an earlier force of habit.They come from a noble family, but they are not arrogant.The advantages of home are as little to them as the advantages of birth. Catherine asked Miss Tilney many eager questions.But she was too active in her mind, and after Miss Tilney answered these inquiries she knew little more about Northanger Abbey than she did before, and only in general terms: In three or three years, in order to get rid of the Roman Church's intervention in British religious and political affairs, King Henry VIII of England announced a break with the Holy See. The following year he announced that the king was the supreme head of the Church of England. In this religious reform movement, the king confiscated A large number of monastery lands, most of which were given to favored ministers, or sold to rented farmers and wealthy citizens.) It was originally a wealthy convent, but after the death of the reform movement, it fell to one of the Tierney family A large part of the old buildings remained, forming part of the present dwelling, the rest collapsed; the monastery was situated in the lower part of a canyon, and to the east and north there were oak groves growing up as screens.