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"Ah!" he cried, "I wish your father ht be half as easily convinced as John will be, of our having every right that equal worth can give, to be happy together I am amused by one part of John's letter--did you notice it?--where he says, that my information did not take him wholly by surprize, that he was rather in expectation of hearing so of the kind"

"If I understand your brother, he onlyHe had no idea of me He seems perfectly unprepared for that"

"Yes, yes--but I as What has he been judging by?--I am not conscious of any difference in my spirits or conversation that could prepare hi any more than at another-- But it was so, I suppose I dare say there was a difference when I was staying with them the other day I believe I did not play with the children quite so , 'Uncle see when the news must spread farther, and other persons' reception of it tried As soon as Mrs Weston was sufficiently recovered to adentle reasonings should be employed in the cause, resolved first to announce it at home, and then at Randalls-- But how to break it to her father at last!--She had bound herself to do it, in such an hour of Mr Knightley's absence, or when it came to the point her heart would have failed her, and she htley was to co she was to make--She was forced to speak, and to speak cheerfully too

She must not make it a more decided subject of misery to him, by a melancholy tone herself She must not appear to think it a misfortune--With all the spirits she could coe, and then, in a feords, said, that if his consent and approbation could be obtained--which, she trusted, would be attended with no difficulty, since it was a plan to prohtley meant to marry; by which means Hartfield would receive the constant addition of that person's cohters and Mrs Weston, best in the world