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Harriet unfolded the parcel, and she looked on with impatience Within abundance of silver paper was a pretty little Tunbridge-ware box, which Harriet opened: it ell lined with the softest cotton; but, excepting the cotton, Emma saw only a small piece of court-plaister

"Now," said Harriet, "you must recollect"

"No, indeed I do not"

"Dear et what passed in this very room about court-plaister, one of the very last times we ever met in it!--It was but a very few days before I had htley ca--Do not you reer with your new penknife, and your reco court-plaister?-- But, as you had none about you, and knew I had, you desired me to supply hireat deal too large, and he cut it s soave it back toa treasure of it--so I put it by never to be used, and looked at it now and then as a great treat"

"My dearest Harriet!" cried E up, "you make me more ashamed of myself than I can bear

Re this relic--I knew nothing of that till thiscourt-plaister, and saying I had none about me!--Oh! my sins, my sins!--And I had plenty all the while in my pocket!--One of my senseless tricks!--I deserve to be under a continual blush all the rest of o on--what else?"

"And had you really some at hand yourself? I am sure I never suspected it, you did it so naturally"

"And so you actually put this piece of court-plaister by for his sake!"

said E divided betonder and amusement And secretly she added to herself, "Lord blessby in cotton a piece of court-plaister that Frank Churchill had been pulling about! I never was equal to this"

"Here," resu still more valuable, I mean that has beento him, which the court-plaister never did"