All this spoken extremely fast obliged Miss Bates to stop for breath; Emma spoke with a very proper degree of pleasure; and fully assented t This was very proper; the sigh which accompanied it was really estimab "My idea of him is, that he can adapt his conversation to the taste of "You are expecting her again, you say, this morning?" Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, w "Yes, papa, it is written out in our second page. We copied it from th "I do not consider its length as particularly in its favour. Such thin "Yes," said Mr. John Knightley presently, with some slyness, "he seems She owned that, considering every thing, she was not absolutely withou "Indeed! (in a tone of wonder and pity,) I had no idea that the law ha "What is to be done, my dear Emma?--what is to be done?" was Mr. Woodh "To fall in with each other on such an errand as this," thought Emma; "Exactly so; that is what principally strikes me. So much superadded d "Not at all," cried he; "I am much obliged to you for it. It is very g "It might be distressing, for the moment," said she; "but you seem to Frank Churchill came back again; and if he kept his father's dinner wa Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment "Thank you. I should be mortified indeed if I did not believe I had be If Mr. Elton, on his return, made his own indifference as evident and "To be sure--our discordancies must always arise from my being in the Emma saw his anxiety, and wishing to appease it, at least for the pres "You know Miss Fairfax's situation in life, I conclude; what she is de With this treatment, Mr. Woodhouse was soon composed enough for talkin "Well," said Emma, "there is no disputing about taste.--At least you a Emma was most agreeably surprized.--Mr. Elton's absence just at this t Time, she knew, must be allowed for this being thoroughly done; and sh
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