Northanger Abbey

‰ЫПI must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of an heroine‰ЫЄs dignity; but if it be as new in common life, the credit of a wild imagination will at least be all my own.‰Ыќ