] I found it fascinating then, that when Henry Tilney is introduced, there is not a single negative to describe him! He is tall, has a pleasing countenance, good address, is intellegent, with lively eyes!

There is one endearing negative - Henry Tilney,"if not quite handsome, was very near it". JA stops using novels as reference for comparison, but HT is at once shown to be the same as her non-heroine - a character from life. I'm afraid I forgot how it was to read NA for the first time, but shouldn't the naivest reader understand at once that here is a true pair?

] Was JA as enamored of him as we are? ;-)