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01. Richard 29. Henry Tilney 02. Two 30. John Thorpe 03. Nine 31. James Morland 04. Fourth 32. Catherine Morland 05. Cricket 33. Eleanor Tilney 06. Eight 34. Isabella Thorpe 07. One year 35. Catherine 08. Gay 36. Isabella 09. Her mother, Mrs. Morland 37. General Tilney 10. Fifteen; “up to fourteen” acceptable. 38. John Thorpe 11. Nine miles—Mrs. Allen says eight, but both 39. Catherine Catherine and Mr. Allen say nine, so we trust 40. Isabella their estimate. 41. Merchant-Taylors’ 12. Ten guineas Edgar’s Buildings 13. Pulteney Street ten o’clock 14. George Parry Woodston 15. The Lower Rooms two hours 16. The Master of Ceremonies, Mr. King Rumford 17. Sprigged muslin with blue trimmings, plain black shoes 42. Catherine 18. Newfoundland, terrier 43. Eleanor 19. Saturday 44. Isabella 20. The Pump Room 45. Miss Andrews 21. Two 46. History 22. William 47. The Twelfth Light Dragoons 23. Putney 48. Miss Drummond 24. Lawyer 49. Five o’clock 25. Twenty-one 50. Maggie Lane’s contribution: 26. The Italian, After a sleepless night you read on by the Castle of Wolfenbach, first glimmering of dawn, “Know that I married Clermont, a kind man, though his name was Richard, The Mysterious Warnings, but leaving me in the country shortly after The Necromancer of the Black Forest, my confinement for the House of Commons, The Midnight Bell, he was knocked down by a very knowing gig— The Orphan of the Rhine, and taken up lifeless! My little boy, perhaps Horrid Mysteries. from having no father to guide him, grew up with a tyrannical streak, and now that he 27. The Midnight Bell is courting Miss Drummond for her money, 28. John Thorpe he has concealed my existence in this tower, where I greatly fear I shall expire….”

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