Northanger Abbey - Chapter 30

Catherine's disposition ¹ was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious ²; but whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased. She could neither sit still nor employ herself for ten minutes together, walking round the garden and orchard ³ again and again, as if nothing but motion was voluntary; and it seemed as if she could even walk about the house rather than remain fixed ⁴ for any time in the parlour. Her loss of spirits was a yet greater alteration ⁵. In her rambling ⁶ and her idleness she might only be a caricature of herself; but in her silence and sadness she was the very reverse of all that she had been before., ,For two days Mrs. Morland allowed it to pass even without a hint; but when a third night's rest had neither restored her cheerfulness, improved her in useful activity, nor given her a greater inclination ⁷ for needlework, she could no longer refrain from the gentle reproof ⁸ of, "My dear Catherine, I am afraid you are growing quite a fine lady. I do not know when poor Richard's cravats ⁹ would be done, if he had no friend but you. Your head runs too much upon Bath; but there is a time for everything—a time for balls and plays, and a time for work. You have had a long run of amusement, and now you must try to be useful.", ,Catherine took up her work directly, saying, in a dejected voice, that "her head did not run upon Bath—much.", , ,"I am sure I do not care about the bread. It is all the same to me what I eat.", ,"There is a very clever essay in one of the books upstairs upon much such a subject, about young girls that have been spoilt for home by great acquaintance—The Mirror, I think. I will look it out for you some day or other, because I am sure it will do you good.", ,He has a cheerful disposition.他性情开朗 。,If the tiller is industrious,the farmland is productive.人勤地不懒
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