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There was no time for farther remark or explanation The dreahtley e modern circular table which Emma had introduced at Hartfield, and which none but Emma could have had power to place there and persuade her father to use, instead of the small-sized Pembroke, on which two of his daily meals had, for forty years been crowded Tea passed pleasantly, and nobody seemed in a hurry to move

"Miss Woodhouse," said Frank Churchill, after exa a table behind him, which he could reach as he sat, "have your nephews taken away their alphabets--their box of letters? It used to stand here Where is it? This is a sort of dull-looking evening, that ought to be treated rather as winter than su I want to puzzle you again"

E the box, the table was quickly scattered over with alphabets, which no one seemed so much disposed to e words for each other, or for any body else ould be puzzled The quietness of the gaible for Mr Woodhouse, who had often been distressed by the more animated sort, which Mr Weston had occasionally introduced, and who now sat happily occupied in la, with tender melancholy, over the departure of the "poor little boys," or in fondly pointing out, as he took up any stray letter near him, how beautifully Emma had written it

Frank Churchill placed a word before Miss Fairfax She gave a slight glance round the table, and applied herself to it Frank was next to Ehtley so placed as to see them all; and it was his object to see as much as he could, with as little apparent observation The as discovered, and with a faint smile pushed away If meant to be iht, she should have looked on the table instead of looking just across, for it was notout none, directly took it up, and fell to work She was sitting by Mr Knightley, and turned to hily proclaiave it a htley connected it with the dream; but how it could all be, was beyond his comprehension How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep! He feared there must be some decided involvement