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The child to be born at Randalls must be a tie there even dearer than herself; and Mrs Weston's heart and time would be occupied by it

They should lose her; and, probably, in greatthem no more; and Miss Fairfax, it was reasonable to suppose, would soon cease to belong to Highbury They would be married, and settled either at or near Enscoood would be withdrawn; and if to these losses, the loss of Donere to be added, ould remain of cheerful or of rational society within their reach? Mr Knightley to be no longer co in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's!--Hoas it to be endured? And if he were to be lost to theht of hereafter, as finding in Harriet's society all that he wanted; if Harriet were to be the chosen, the first, the dearest, the friend, the wife to whos of existence; what could be increasing Emma's wretchedness but the reflection never far distant from her mind, that it had been all her oork?

When it came to such a pitch as this, she was not able to refrain fro about the roo like consolation or composure could be draas in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaietyand every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, ret when it were gone