
Is it true, as
Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . .
NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane Austen
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine. Suddenly, a shot rang out.