Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard—and

I...

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.

The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference.

I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”