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"Are you well,question

"Oh! perfectly I aence of the letter as soon as possible"

Mrs Weston's communications furnished E her esteem and compassion, and her sense of past injustice towards Miss Fairfax She bitterly regretted not having sought a closer acquaintance with her, and blushed for the envious feelings which had certainly been, in sohtley's knoishes, in paying that attention to Miss Fairfax, which was every way her due; had she tried to know her better; had she done her part towards intimacy; had she endeavoured to find a friend there instead of in Harriet Smith; she must, in all probability, have been spared from every pain which pressed on her now--Birth, abilities, and education, had been equally ratitude; and the other--as she?--Supposing even that they had never become intimate friends; that she had never been admitted into Miss Fairfax's confidence on this i her as she ought, and as she ht, she must have been preserved from the abominable suspicions of an improper attachment to Mr Dixon, which she had not only so foolishly fashioned and harboured herself, but had so unpardonably ireatly feared had been made a subject of s, by the levity or carelessness of Frank Churchill's

Of all the sources of evil surrounding the forhbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst

She must have been a perpetual eneether, without her having stabbed Jane Fairfax's peace in a thousand instances; and on Box Hill, perhaps, it had been the agony of aof this day was very long, and melancholy, at Hartfield

The weather added what it could of gloo of July appeared but in the trees and shrubs, which the as despoiling, and the length of the day, which only er visible

The weather affected Mr Woodhouse, and he could only be kept tolerably cohter's side, and by exertions which had never cost her half so much before It re of Mrs Weston's wedding-day; but Mr Knightley had walked in then, soon after tea, and dissipated every htful proofs of Hartfield's attraction, as those sort of visits conveyed, ht shortly be over The picture which she had then drawn of the privations of the approaching winter, had proved erroneous; no friends had deserted thes she feared would experience no similar contradiction The prospect before her noas threatening to a degree that could not be entirely dispelled-that htened If all took place thatthe circle of her friends, Hartfield must be comparatively deserted; and she left to cheer her father with the spirits only of ruined happiness