? ? ? ? "I never look at it," said Catherine, as they walked along the side of the river, "without thinking of the south of France."
? ? ? ? "You have been abroad then?" said Henry, a little surprised.
? ? ? ? "Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you never read novels, I dare say?"
? ? ? ? "Why not?"
? ? ? ? "Because they are not clever enough for you--gentlemen read better books."
? ? ? ? "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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