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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: looking forward to pleasures untasted and unalloyed,
and free from the apprehension of evil as from the knowledge
of it. Three months ago had seen her all this; and now,
how altered a being did she return!
She was received by the Allens with all the kindness
which her unlooked-for appearance, acting on a steady affection,
would naturally call forth; and great was their surprise,
and warm their displeasure, on hearing how she had been
treated--though Mrs. Morland's account of it was no
inflated representation, no studied appeal to their passions.
"Catherine took us quite by surprise yesterday evening,"
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