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"Poor girl!" said Eain "She loves him then excessively, I suppose It must have been froe extre, "that I must often have contributed to make her unhappy"

"On your side, my love, it was very innocently done But she probably had so to the iven us hints of before One natural consequence of the evil she had involved herself in," she said, "was that ofdone amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and ree that must have been--that had been--hard for him to bear 'I did not ht to have done, for his teaiety, that playfulness of disposition, which, under any other circu to an to speak of you, and of the great kindness you had shewn her during her illness; and with a blush which shewed me hoas all connected, desired me, whenever I had an opportunity, to thank you--I could not thank you too ood She was sensible that you had never received any proper acknowledgment from herself"

"If I did not know her to be happy now," said Emma, seriously, "which, in spite of every little drawback from her scrupulous conscience, she must be, I could not bear these thanks;--for, oh! Mrs Weston, if there were an account drawn up of the evil and the good I have done Miss Fairfax!--Well (checking herself, and trying to be otten You are very kind to bring reatest advantage I aood--I hope she will be very happy It is fit that the fortune should be on his side, for I think the merit will be all on hers"

Such a conclusion could not pass unanswered by Mrs Weston She thought well of Frank in almost every respect; and, as more, she loved him very much, and her defence was, therefore, earnest She talked with a great deal of reason, and at least equal affection--but she had too one to Brunswick Square or to Donwell; she forgot to attempt to listen; and when Mrs Weston ended with, "We have not yet had the letter we are so anxious for, you know, but I hope it will soon coed to pause before she answered, and at last obliged to answer at random, before she could at all recollect what letter it hich they were so anxious for