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Mr Knightley was fortunate in every body's most ready concurrence

The invitation was everywhere so well received, that it see the scheme as a particular coh expectations of pleasure froet Frank over to join theratitude which could have been dispensed with-- Mr Knightley was then obliged to say that he should be glad to see hi, and spare no arguments to induce him to come

In the meanwhile the laain under happy consideration; and at last Donas settled for one day, and Box Hill for the next,--the weather appearing exactly right

Under a bright mid-day sun, at almost Midsue, with one n, to partake of this al-fresco party; and in one of the most comfortable rooms in the Abbey, especially prepared for hi, he was happily placed, quite at his ease, ready to talk with pleasure of what had been achieved, and advise every body to come and sit down, and not to heat themselves-- Mrs Weston, who seemed to have walked there on purpose to be tired, and sit all the time with him, remained, when all the others were invited or persuaded out, his patient listener and sy since Emma had been at the Abbey, that as soon as she was satisfied of her father's coer to refresh and correct her memory withof a house and grounds whichto her and all her family

She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoardens stretching down to meadoashed by a strealect of prospect, had scarcely a sight--and its abundance of tiance had rooted up--The house was larger than Hartfield, and totally unlike it, covering a good deal of ground, raular, with many comfortable, and one or two handsoht to be, and it looked what it was--and E respect for it, as the residence of a faentility, untainted in blood and understanding--Sohtley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably