Stand such a ceremony as this? Will not your mind misgive you when Some cousin or kin died in it about twenty years before. Repair to their own end of the house, she is formally conducted byĭorothy, the ancient housekeeper, up a different staircase, andĪlong many gloomy passages, into an apartment never used since Whatever means) introduced into a dwelling of this kind, she isĪlways lodged apart from the rest of the family. But you must be aware that when a young lady is (by To spread our beds on the floor of a room without windows, doors, We shall not have to explore our way into a hallĭimly lighted by the expiring embers of a wood fire–nor be obliged Never been uninhabited and left deserted for years, and then theįamily come back to it unawares, without giving any notice, as There would be so many people in the house–and besides, it has “Oh! yes–I do not think I should be easily frightened, because Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?” Such as ‘what one reads about’ may produce? Have you a stout heart? “And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building Is not it a fine old place, just like what smiled, and said, “You have formed a very favourable idea of In this passage from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Henry Tilney mocks the Gothic novel and jokingly tells Catherine Morland what horrible, frightening things she can expect at the abbey:
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