Tina hat geschrieben:
Über seine Qualitäten als Tänzer, ob er sich wegen seiner Vepätung entschuldigt, ihre Unterhaltung, über all das erfahre ich kein Wort. Ich frag mich, ob ich das evtl. alles überlesen haben soll? Lässt JA das einfach so aus? Irgendwie hab ich da den Faden verloren angefangen bei Catherines Unterhaltung mit Henrys Schwester und Isabella, die sich einmischt bis Catherine dann bei Mrs. Allen ist und im Grunde nur noch beobachtet. Alles andere kann ich mir nicht richtig zusammen reimen (habe gerade das Englische gelesen, ist das im Deutschen klarer? Ich kann mich eigentlich nicht daran erinnern und wüsste schon gerne, wie Catherine sich gegenüber Henrys Schwester verhält, wie es kommt und ob es sehr unhöflich war oder ob es an Isabella gelegen hat, die Catherine zu sich und ihrer party gezogen hat, wo auch inzwischen John war?
Ich habe dir hier die Stelle rüberkopiert, die eigentlich alle deine Fragen beantworten sollte:
"Here they were interrupted by a request from Mrs. Thorpe to Mrs. Allen, that she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats, as they had agreed to join their party. This was accordingly done, Mr. Tilney still continuing standing before them; and after a few minutes’ consideration, he asked Catherine to dance with him. This compliment, delightful as it was, produced severe mortification to the lady; and in giving her denial, she expressed her sorrow on the occasion so very much as if she really felt it that had Thorpe, who joined her just afterwards, been half a minute earlier, he might have thought her sufferings rather too acute. The very easy manner in which he then told her that he had kept her waiting did not by any means reconcile her more to her lot; nor did the particulars which he entered into while they were standing up, of the horses and dogs of the friend whom he had just left, and of a proposed exchange of terriers between them, interest her so much as to prevent her looking very often towards that part of the room where she had left Mr. Tilney. Of her dear Isabella, to whom she particularly longed to point out that gentleman, she could see nothing. They were in different sets. She was separated from all her party, and away from all her acquaintance; one mortification succeeded another, and from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady. From such a moralizing strain as this, she was suddenly roused by a touch on the shoulder, and turning round, perceived Mrs. Hughes directly behind her, attended by Miss Tilney and a gentleman. “I beg your pardon, Miss Morland,” said she, “for this liberty — but I cannot anyhow get to Miss Thorpe, and Mrs. Thorpe said she was sure you would not have the least objection to letting in this young lady by you.” Mrs. Hughes could not have applied to any creature in the room more happy to oblige her than Catherine. The young ladies were introduced to each other, Miss Tilney expressing a proper sense of such goodness, Miss Morland with the real delicacy of a generous mind making light of the obligation; and Mrs. Hughes, satisfied with having so respectably settled her young charge, returned to her party.
Miss Tilney had a good figure, a pretty face, and a very agreeable countenance; and her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness of Miss Thorpe’s, had more real elegance. Her manners showed good sense and good breeding; they were neither shy nor affectedly open; and she seemed capable of being young, attractive, and at a ball without wanting to fix the attention of every man near her, and without exaggerated feelings of ecstatic delight or inconceivable vexation on every little trifling occurrence. Catherine, interested at once by her appearance and her relationship to Mr. Tilney, was desirous of being acquainted with her, and readily talked therefore whenever she could think of anything to say, and had courage and leisure for saying it. But the hindrance thrown in the way of a very speedy intimacy, by the frequent want of one or more of these requisites, prevented their doing more than going through the first rudiments of an acquaintance, by informing themselves how well the other liked Bath, how much she admired its buildings and surrounding country, whether she drew, or played, or sang, and whether she was fond of riding on horseback.
The two dances were scarcely concluded before Catherine found her arm gently seized by her faithful Isabella, who in great spirits exclaimed, “At last I have got you. My dearest creature, I have been looking for you this hour. What could induce you to come into this set, when you knew I was in the other? I have been quite wretched without you.”"
Es geht folgendermaßen vor sich:
1) Der Tanz beginnt: Catherine und Thorpe; und Isabella und James wollen miteinander tanzen ---> John Thorpe lässt Catherine warten
2) James und Isabella lassen schließlich Catherine bei Mrs Allen und Mrs Thorpe am Rand sitzen; Catherine fühlt sich gedemütigt, weil die anderen die Umstände ja nicht kennen, und denken könnten, sie wäre bisher nicht zum Tanz aufgefordert worden, obwohl sie es längst ist
3) Mr Tilney und seine Schwester gelangen durch eine Bekannte von Mrs Thorpe zu ihrer Gruppe und Henry Tilney fordert Catherine zum Tanz auf, was sie ablehnen muss
4) Thorpe kommt kurz darauf endlich hinzu, endschuldigt sich nicht einmal richtig und schleift sie zur Tanzfläche, von wo aus sie sehnsüchtige Blicke in Richtung ihrer Bekannten (und Henry Tilney
) wirft
5) Sie wird von dieser Situation, allein auf John Thorpe, der sie mit Terriern und Pferden vollabert, angewiesen zu sein, durch eine Mrs Hughes, die Bekannte von Mrs Thorpe, erlöst, die ihr Miss Tilney anvertraut und vorstellt
6) Die beiden unterhalten sich eine Weile, während wohl John Thorpe dabei steht und wartet, mit Catherine weiter tanzen zu können
7) Schließlich kehrt wohl Miss Tilney zu ihrem Bruder zurück (was allerdings nicht ausdrücklich gesagt wird, da hast du Recht!) und Catherine tanzt den Tanz zu Ende
Isabella taucht auf etc. etc.
Sorry,
das klingt jetzt fürchterlich oberlehrerhaft, doch so konnte ich's am Besten auseinanderdröseln...
Ich glaube nicht, dass Catherine sich gegenüber Miss Tilney unhöflich benommen hat...
Alethea