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It was, indeed, so odd; Harriet's behaviour was so extremely odd, that Emma did not kno to understand it Her character appeared absolutely changed She seeitation, or disappointment, or peculiar concern in the discovery Emma looked at her, quite unable to speak

"Had you any idea," cried Harriet, "of his being in love with her?--You, perhaps,as she spoke) who can see into every body's heart; but nobody else--"

"Uponany such talent

Can you seriously ask ined him attached to another woman at the very tiive way to your own feelings?--I never had the slightest suspicion, till within the last hour, of Mr Frank Churchill's having the least regard for Jane Fairfax You may be very sure that if I had, I should have cautioned you accordingly"

"Me!" cried Harriet, colouring, and astonished "Why should you caution me?--You do not think I care about Mr Frank Churchill"

"I ahted to hear you speak so stoutly on the subject," replied E; "but you do not mean to deny that there was a tiave me reason to understand that you did care about him?"

"Him!--never, never Dear Miss Woodhouse, how could you soaway distressed

"Harriet!" cried Emma, after a moment's pause--"What do you mean?-Good Heaven! what do you mean?--Mistake you!--Am I to suppose then?--"

She could not speak another word--Her voice was lost; and she sat doaiting in great terror till Harriet should answer

Harriet, as standing at some distance, and with face turned fro; and when she did speak, it was in a voice nearly as agitated as Ean, "that you could have reed never to na how infinitely superior he is to every body else, I should not have thought it possible that I could be supposed to mean any other person Mr Frank Churchill, indeed! I do not knoould ever look at him in the company of the other I hope I have a better taste than to think of Mr Frank Churchill, who is like nobody by his side

And that you should have been sothat you entirely approved and e me in reat a presumption almost, to dare to think of his had happened; that there had been reater disparity (those were your very words);-- I should not have dared to give way to--I should not have thought it possible--But if _you_, who had been always acquainted with him--"