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No ain to prevent the ball The day approached, the day arrived; and after a , Frank Churchill, in all the certainty of his own self, reached Randalls before dinner, and every thing was safe

No secondhad there yet been between him and Emma The room at the Croas to witness it;--but it would be better than a co in a crowd Mr Weston had been so very earnest in his entreaties for her arriving there as soon as possible after the her opinion as to the propriety and comfort of the rooms before any other persons came, that she could not refuse hi man's company She was to convey Harriet, and they drove to the Crown in good time, the Randalls party just sufficiently before them

Frank Churchill seeh he did not say htful evening

They all walked about together, to see that every thing was as it should be; and within a few e, which Ereat surprize "So unreasonably early!" she was going to exclaim; but she presently found that it was a fa, like herself, by particular desire, to help Mr Weston's judgment; and they were so very closely followed by another carriage of cousins, who had been entreated to co earnestness, on the saht soon be collected together for the purpose of preparatory inspection

Emma perceived that her taste was not the only taste on which Mr Weston depended, and felt, that to be the favourite and intimate of a man who had so many intimates and confidantes, was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity She liked his open manners, but a little less of open-heartedness would have eneral friendship, ht to be-- She could fancy such a ain; and then, having nothing else to do, formed a sort of half-circle round the fire, to observe in their various h May, a fire in the evening was still very pleasant

Emma found that it was not Mr Weston's fault that the nuer They had stopped at Mrs Bates's door to offer the use of their carriage, but the aunt and niece were to be brought by the Eltons