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There was nothing in all this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma's attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind The contrast between Mrs Churchill's importance in the world, and Jane Fairfax's, struck her; one was every thing, the other nothing--and she saton the difference of woman's destiny, and quite unconscious on what her eyes were fixed, till roused by Miss Bates's saying, "Aye, I see what you are thinking of, the pianoforte What is to beco of it just now-- 'You o,' said she 'You and I must part You will have no business here--Let it stay, however,' said she; 'give it houseroom till Colonel Campbell comes back I shall talk about it to him; he will settle for me; he will help me out of all my difficulties'-- And to this day, I do believe, she knows not whether it was his present or his daughter's"

Now Eed to think of the pianoforte; and the remembrance of all her for, that she soon allowed herself to believe her visit had been long enough; and, with a repetition of every thing that she could venture to say of the good wishes which she really felt, took leave