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How the tra ladies been eous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harriet was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woreat boy, all clah not absolutely in word--More and htened, she iave theed them not to want h but slowly, and was , and she was followed, or rather surrounded, by the whole gang, de more

In this state Frank Churchill had found her, she tre, they loud and insolent By a hbury had been delayed so as to bring him to her assistance at this criticalhad induced him to walk forward, and leave his horses to hbury--and happening to have borrowed a pair of scissors the night before of Miss Bates, and to have forgotten to restore theo in for a few minutes: he was therefore later than he had intended; and being on foot, was unseen by the whole party till almost close to the in Harriet was then their own portion He had left the to hih to reach Hartfield, before her spirits were quite overcoht of no other place

This was the amount of the whole story,--of his communication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech-- He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left hiive assurance of her safety to Mrs Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself

Such an adventure as this,--a fine young ether in such a way, could hardly fail of suggesting certain ideas to the coldest heart and the steadiest brain So Erammarian, could even a mathematician have seen what she did, have witnessed their appearance together, and heard their history of it, without feeling that circu to each other?--How inist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight!--especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made