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...ane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1803) A NOTE ON THE TEXT Northanger Abbey was written... ...y with modern British usage. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for imme... ...rs, books, and opinions have undergone considerable changes. 4 Northanger Abbey CHAPTER 1 NO ONE who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy w... ...r you were ever here before; whether you have been at the Upper Rooms, the theatre, and the concert; and how you like the place altogether. I have bee... ...e Upper Rooms?” “Yes, sir, I was there last Monday.” “Have you been to the theatre?” “Yes, sir, I was at the play on T uesday.” “T o the concert?” “Ye... ...arning, to their mutual relief, that they should see each other across the theatre at night, and say their prayers in the same chapel the next morning... ..., be minutely repeated. CHAPTER 5 CATHERINE was not so much engaged at the theatre that evening, in returning the nods and smiles of Miss Thorpe, thou...

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...ve on my bedroom walls seem less clever than they appeared years ago. Our theatre, too, has changed through the years, become more mediocre. Yester... ...ning his wife who was strolling behind us with her friends and servants. Theatre! P Villa Poseidon Atthis, Gyrinno, Anaktoria and I went swimming... ...wings and more wings, bearing me away. P Sometimes, we troop to our old theatre, lost in its bowl of cypress and over- grown with grass and weeds, ... ... on a long trip: may they find Phaon and bring him back to me. P This is theatre season and the talk is of actors and acting. I like to familiarize ... ... remain a spectator there. It is when we become involved that we lose our theatre perspective. Neglates, who used to be a leading actor in Athens, l... ... silent bagpipes. Ellen and I visited the ruins of a sprawling Cistercian abbey on her Dunira property; there, under the vaulted archway, where rose... ...ot have cared less. Its dirt and beauty—I never missed them. Visiting the abbey frequently, we met several of the monks who resided in a section of ... ...too, would linger, sharing our mood. Abbey garden, fountains, vegetables and herbs in rows: a collection of ra...

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...bout it. How many times have we heard stories of resident ghosts haunting theatres, pubs and other places? I suppose it did make sense, I just never... ...el and picked the next-door neighbour’s flowers for the love of his life. Abbey Gibson had captured Gary’s heart and sent his hormones on a marathon... ...bin on the way out. Poor boy’s nervous and has but one thing on his mind, Abbey Gibson. The windscreen wipers are on full with the rain pelting down.... ...y am. I don’t believe my brain slept, as I dreamt of a hospital operating theatre that has an observation deck to view procedures. A thousand and on... ... with my brain exploding, which took out all observers and demolished the theatre. Steven and Ali are with me in the kitchen; we are all patiently wa...

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...e of cleanliness? Affluent people who keep their homes spotless, go to movie theatres where they slop all of their food and drink containers onto th... ... full of festering bacteria and rotting food and shit. It was the highest abbeys and monks: it was these homosexual religious hypocritical scum w... ...ition of puppeteers outlasted all other Greek traditions? Why has the puppet theatre been the only ancient Greek tradition that has been handed down... ...m than a joke. They have orchestrated the unbroken preservation of puppet theatres for over 2,750 years… as a sly, secret, ironic joke. Becaus...

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...ions begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...ovinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Ba... ... was, like Simon Giguet, a son of Arcis. Old Goulard, his father, left the abbey of Valpreux (corruption of Val-des-Preux) to live in Arcis after the ... ... Mademoiselle Mars. By calling to mind the most charming Celimene that the Theatre-Francais ever had, an excellent idea of Severine Grevin’s appearanc... ...property below its proper value. Before the Revolution the property of our abbey was estimated at—[so much]. That is the price I choose to give, and n... ...nt the servant threw open the door and announced dinner. After dinner, the theatre was proposed; that is one of the amusements that Parisians miss the... ...t divert his mind a little.” V 243 Balzac CHILDREN ON HIS RETURN from the theatre Monsieur Octave de Camps declared that it would be long before they... ...ating this treaty in order that she shall make her first appearance at his theatre.” 294 The Deputy of Arcis “Well, adieu, my dear fellow; a pleasant...

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...clipse, we entered at least the skirts of its penumbra. And the analogy of theatres was valid against us,—where no man can complain of the annoyances ... ...e boxes. But the soundness of this analogy we disputed. In the case of the theatre, it cannot be pretended that the inferior situations have any separ... ... so warm, the glasses are all down; and one may read, as on the stage of a theatre, everything that goes on within. It contains three ladies—one likel... ... mysterious powers and ancient secrets that towered into tragic strength. “Abbeys there were, and abbey windows”—”like Moorish temples of the Hindoos”... ...d each its own dreamy legend. Few enough, and scattered enough, were these abbeys, so as in no degree to disturb the deep solitude of the region; yet ... ...mer, a native of Bath, and from about 1768 the energetic proprietor of the Theatre Royal in that city, had been led, by the wretched state in those da... ...of their festivals, and with accounts of their lives and sufferings. 76 4 “ABBEYS THERE WERE,” ETC.: Cf. Wordsworth, Peter Bell, Part Second: Temple... ...nd: Temples like those among the Hindoos, And mosques, and spires, and abbey windows, And castles all with ivy green. 76 17 THE VOSGES ... HAVE ... ...0 4 THE ORIFLAMME OF FRANCE: the red banner of St. Denis, preserved in the abbey of that name, near Paris, and borne before the French king as a conse...

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... of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intimated to the author of these light pages t... ...s,” which are the romantic and epicu- rean chronicle of the old manors and abbeys of this re- gion. And he was, moreover, the product of a soil into w... ...sance; it is really a lesson in good taste. Originally placed in the great abbey-church of Saint Martin, which was for so many ages the holy place of ... ... (tradition fails to say, I believe, what he did with the other half), the abbey of Saint Martin, through the Middle Ages, waxed rich and powerful, ti... ...lieve that to this day a considerable part of the foundations of the great abbey is buried in the soil of Tours. The two surviving towers, which are d... ... excur- sion in the near neighborhood of Tours. The remains of this famous abbey lie on the other bank of the stream, about a mile and a half from the... ...ved with gold figures; and each of them looks more like the royal box at a theatre than like the aperture of a palace dark with memories. For all this... ...square, surrounded with other tall houses, and occupied on one side by the theatre, a pompous build- ing, decorated with columns and statues of the mu... ...- pearance which culminates in the great place which sur- rounds the Grand-Theatre,—an establishment in the high- est style, encircled with columns, a...

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...lation. It was then that the Countess heard that there was a nun at Wilton Abbey so skilled in the treatment of wounds and sores that she was thought ... ...the time they reached the descent into the long smooth valley where Wilton Abbey stood, and the 24 Grisly Grisell spire of the Cathedral cou... ... manor so important, and within the last century in the more fashion- able abbeys Latin of a sort, French “of the school of Stratford le Bowe,” and th... ...o himself the next appointment to this as well as to certain other wealthy abbeys. The nuns in much distress appealed to the Bishop, but he could do n... ...me. “Ha! how now! Methought my Lady of Salisbury had be- stowed her in the Abbey—how call you it?” “Aye,” returned Warwick; “but since we have not had... ...old - If fancy would pourtray some stately town, Which for such pomp fit theatre would be, Fair Bruges, I shall then remember thee. —Southey, Pilg...

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...nal flash of happy inspiration. “I expect I shall have a box at one of the theatres to-mor- row,” he remarked carelessly; “I will call for you and M. ... ...h of June ministers are often puzzled to know what to do with boxes at the theatre; ministerialist deputies and their constituents are busy in their v... ...s to pass that the best seats are filled at this season with heterogeneous theatre-goers, never seen at any other time of year, and the house is apt t... ...egant, and as much at home as an actor treading the familiar boards of his theatre, in two days had recovered all the ground lost in the past six mont... ...the back of the house, so that its occupants see and are seen all over the theatre. Lucien took his seat on a chair behind Mme. de Bargeton, thankful ... ...rbonne. The furniture must have come originally from the refectory of some abbey, for there was a monastic look about the lengthy tables, where the se...

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...ape and driving I don’t know what im- provements right through Westminster Abbey and fully believed in the streets to be knocking everything upside do... ... well in life I cannot say, but I did hear of his coming, out at a Private Theatre in the character of a Bandit without receiving any offers afterward... ... 13 Charles Dickens the Roman style as depicted formerly at Covent Garden Theatre and when the whole family was most agreeable, as they have ever pro... ...vellous, and just the same at dinner and at night, prowling equally at the theatre and the inn gateway and the shop doors when we bought a trifle or t... ...p and low down and on before and on behind and all round, and the crowd of theatres and the crowd of people and the crowd of all sorts, it’s pure ench... ...ange your money at a money-dealer’s or whether you take your ticket at the theatre, the lady or gentleman is caged up (I suppose by government) behind...

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...sibly can: his chief places of resort are, the streets, the taverns, and the theatres. In the streets at evening time, out and out young gentlemen hav... ...oung Gentlemen by Charles Dickens 18 he tremble a little! And then, at the Theatre at night, when the performances are by command of Colonel Fitz So... ...a dinner table; such as, whether, if the public were admitted to Westminster Abbey for nothing, they would or would not convey small chisels and hamme... ...rence for all that is connected with the stage department of the differ ent theatres. He would, at any time, prefer going a street or two out of his ... ...ical young gentleman is a constant half price visitor at one or other of the theatres, and has an infinite relish for all pieces which display the ful... ...leman laughs a laugh belonging only to poets and Mr. O. Smith of the Adelphi Theatre, and sits down, pen in hand, to throw off a page or two of verse ...

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... e’er I heard: shall I produce the men? KING JOHN : Let them approach. Our abbeys and our priories shall pay This expedition’s charge. [Enter ROBERT... ...f Angiers flout you, kings, And stand securely on their battlements, As in a theatre, whence they gape and point At your industrious scenes and acts o... ...word by me which way you go. KING JOHN : Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there. Messenger: Be of good comfort; for the great supply That wa... ...w. [Exeunt.] ACT V SCENE VI: An open place in the neighborhood of Swinstead Abbey. [Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally .] HUBERT: Who’s there? ... ... be dead or ere I come. [Exeunt.] ACT V SCENE VII: The orchard in Swinstead Abbey. [Enter PRINCE HENRY, SALISBURY, and BIGOT .] PRINCE HENRY : It is...

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... that time they had never been to a play; the churches of Paris were their theatre. Their education in their mother’s house had been as rigorous as it... ...eir mother and sisters, but after that the count took them off to museums, theatres, restaurants, or, during the summer season, into the country. Exce... ...rs and comments upon them, who waltzes with a dozen young men, goes to the theatre, devours novels, cares nothing for religion, and makes her own ethi... ... certain hour. Instead of giving orders, I receive them. At a ball, at the theatre, a servant comes to me and says: ‘Madame’s carriage is ready,’ and ... ...he guided her taste in dress; he trained her to converse; he took her from theatre to theatre, and made her study literature and current history. This... ...between two statu- ettes, undoubtedly obtained from the demolition of some abbey. In the corners of the room, on pedestals, were lamps of royal magnif...

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...e shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And the... ...aud would have nothing to say to, on any terms, and which even Westminster Abbey might be ashamed of. If you would know all about the ar chitecture o... ...t of Faith, are very commonly seen walking in the streets. There are three theatres in the city, besides an old one now rarely opened. The most import... ...: the opera house of Genoa—is a very splendid, commodi ous, and beautiful theatre. A company of comedians were acting there, when we arrived: and soo... ...an if they made the unhappy manager’s fortune. The T eatro Diurno, or Day Theatre, is a covered stage in the open air, where the performances take pl... ... is dangerous to despotic gov ernments, and Jesuit beleaguered kings. The Theatre of Puppets, or Marionetti—a famous company from Milan—is, without a... ...f and them. They would no more have such a man for a Verger in Westminster Abbey, than they would let the people in (as they do at Bo logna) to see t...

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...ple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the foundation of a temple to Diana, he bu... ...e it many a time and often, I have no doubt. Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, was one of the most sagacious of these monks. He was an ingenious sm... ... his eyes, as you will wish they had, when you read what follows), and his abbey was given to priests who were married; whom he always, both before an... ... still the real king, drove all married priests out of the monasteries and abbeys, and replaced them by solitary monks like himself, of the rigid or ... ...; and was buried, as if he had been all that the monks said he was, in the abbey of Glastonbury, which he—or Dunstan for him—had much enriched. Englan... ...rough his reign. An other merry lady named Moll Davies , a dancer at the theatre, was afterwards her rival. So was Nell Gwyn, first an orange girl ... ...ommons, Sir John Coventry . He made a remark in a debate about taxing the theatres, which gave the King offence. The King agreed with his illegitimat...

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...th masons, sir, and I make him the sign continually; but, because I am in this unfortunate position, sir, he won’t give me the counter-sign!’ CHAPTER ... ...nt re- duced condition it bears a thaw almost worse than any place I know. It gets so dreadfully low-spirited when damp breaks forth. Those wonderful ... ... with the rain-drops coursing one another down its innocent nose. Those inscru- table pigeon-hole offices, with nothing in them (not so much as an ink... ...upon its last smouldering ashes. And yet, on such a night in so degenerate a time, the ob- ject of my journey was theatrical. And yet within half an h... ... low whispers what numbers of people they were keeping awake, and how intensely wretched and horrible they were rendering the small hours to unfortuna... ...rds widening perhaps (as the philosopher has suggested) in eternal space, the mis- take is rectified and the sense of loneliness is profounder. Once—i... ...son, I find it a delicious triumph to walk down to deserted Westminster, and see the Courts shut up; to walk a little further and see the Two Houses s... ...ssailed with a general shout of ‘Question.’ CHAPTER XXI THE SHORT-TIMERS W ITHIN SO MANY YARDS of this Covent-garden lodg ing of mine, as within so ma... ...res in the air, and returns calm and silent to the Palaver. Let the honourable and civilised member similarly charged with a speech, dart into the clo...

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...marvels with his wooden sword, a jumper in and out of windows, as upon our theatre, but, as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, who... ...ey shook Athens with their discourses, as their theatrical works shook the theatre itself. If they turned to France in the time of Louis the Fourteent... ...hey erected the drama into an ideal place of profaneness, and spoke of the theatre as of the tents of sin. He did not mean to dispute that there were ... ... they might differ in other points. Such might not approve of going to the theatre, but at least could not deny that they might give away from their s... ...t my position would be most judi- ciously assumed by taking it up near the Abbey of Holyrood. [See Note 1.—Holyrood.] It was then I first became ac- q... ... the accurate Maitland, once marked the Girth, or Asylum, belonging to the Abbey of Holyrood, and which, being still an appendage to the royal palace,... ...portant old woman, undisputed owner of one flat of a small tenement in the Abbey Yard, and about to be pro- moted to be housekeeper to an elderly bach... ...in to remind me of my cruelty, I must remind you it has struck nine on the Abbey clock, and it is time you were going home to Little Croftangry. For m... ...ied with Hector Boece’s narrative of the original foundation of the famous abbey of Holyrood, or the Holy Cross, as given in Bellenden’s translation:—...

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... mysterious powers and ancient secrets that towered into tragic strength. “Abbeys there were, and abbey windows, dim and dimly seen—as Moorish temples... ...ipse, we entered at least the skirts of its penum- bra. And the analogy of theatres was urged against us, where no man can complain of the annoyances ... ...boxes. But the soundness of this analogy we dis- puted. In the case of the theatre, it cannot be pretended that the inferior situations have any separ... ... so warm, the glasses are all down; and one may read, as on the stage of a theatre, everything that goes on within the carriage. It contains three lad...

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...om the right of M. de Luxembourg. The Prince of Orange was encamped at the Abbey of Pure, was unable to receive supplies, and could not leave his posi... ...ay but little about it. I 39 Saint-Simon will, however, mention that this abbey is five leagues from La Ferme-au-Vidame, or Arnold, which is the real... ...m a lettre de cachet, in order that he might go and ripen his brain in his Abbey of Busay, in Brittany, and better learn there how to speak and write.... ...ount of the gain it brought, the Italians re- ceived orders to close their theatre and to quit the realm in a month. This affair made a great noise; a... ...ived to salute him. The Bishop of Plosko gave him a grand repast, near the Abbey of Oliva. Marege, a Gascon gentle- man of the Prince’s suite, was pre... ... the arrival of the King and Queen of England. The King took them into the theatre, where 98 Saint-Simon Destouches’s opera of Isse was very well per... ...achet’, which prohibited him from approaching within thirty leagues of the abbey, and within twenty of Paris. It was I who made known to him that his ... ...es very absent. It happened one evening that, talking with Racine upon the theatre, the King asked why comedy was so much out of fashion. Racine gave ... ...te of this excuse. During the winter, as the King could not well go to the theatre, the theatre cane to him, in the apartments of Madame de Maintenon,...