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Mrs Weston was acting no part, feigning no feelings in all that she said to him in favour of the event--She had been extremely surprized, never more so, than when Emma first opened the affair to her; but she saw in it only increase of happiness to all, and had no scruple in urging hihtley, as to think he deserved even her dearest Emma; and it was in every respect so proper, suitable, and unexceptionable a connexion, and in one respect, one point of the highest iularly fortunate, that now it seemed as if Emma could not safely have attached herself to any other creature, and that she had herself been the stupidest of beings in not having thought of it, and wished it long ago--How very few of those men in a rank of life to address Emma would have renounced their own hohtley could know and bear with Mr Woodhouse, so as to e of poor Mr Woodhouse had been always felt in her husband's plans and her own, for a e between Frank and Emma How to settle the claims of Enscombe and Hartfield had been a continual ied by Mr Weston than by herself--but even he had never been able to finish the subject better than by saying--"Thosepeople will find a way" But here there was nothing to be shifted off in a wild speculation on the future It was all right, all open, all equal No sacrifice on any side worth the nahest promise of felicity in itself, and without one real, rational difficulty to oppose or delay it

Mrs Weston, with her baby on her knee, indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the happiest woht, it was perceiving that the baby would soon have outgrown its first set of caps

The neas universally a surprize wherever it spread; and Mr Weston had his five h to familiarise the idea to his quickness of es of the match, and rejoiced in them with all the constancy of his wife; but the wonder of it was very soon nothing; and by the end of an hour he was not far fro that he had always foreseen it