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"Oh! the best nature in the world--a wedding"

After waiting a moment, as if to be sure she intended to say no more, he replied, "If you mean Miss Fairfax and Frank Churchill, I have heard that already"

"How is it possible?" cried E cheeks towards hiht have called at Mrs Goddard's in his way

"I had a few lines on parish business froave me a brief account of what had happened"

Emma was quite relieved, and could presently say, with a little more composure, "You probably have been less surprized than any of us, for you have had your suspicions--I have not forgotten that you once tried to give me a caution--I wish I had attended to it--but--(with a sinking voice and a heavy sigh) I seem to have been doo was said, and she was unsuspicious of having excited any particular interest, till she found her arainst his heart, and heard hi low, "Time, my dearest Emma, time will heal the wound--Your own excellent sense--your exertions for your father's sake--I know you will not allow yourself--" Her arain, as he added, in a s of the warnation--Abominable scoundrel!"-- And in a louder, steadier tone, he concluded with, "He will soon be gone They will soon be in Yorkshire I am sorry for her She deserves a better fate"

Emma understood him; and as soon as she could recover from the flutter of pleasure, excited by such tender consideration, replied, "You are very kind--but you are ht-- I am not in want of that sort of co on, led me to act by them in a way that I must always be ashamed of, and I was very foolishly tes which may well lay me open to unpleasant conjectures, but I have no other reason to regret that I was not in the secret earlier"

"Eerly at her, "are you, indeed?"--but checking hiive me--I am pleased that you can say even so ret, indeed! and it will not be very long, I hope, before that becoment of more than your reason--Fortunate that your affections were not farther entangled!--I could never, I confess, froree of what you felt-- I could only be certain that there was a preference--and a preference which I never believed hirace to the na woman?-- Jane, Jane, you will be a miserable creature"