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"I htley, with s but determined decision, "and been accepted"
"Good God!" she cried--"Well!"--Then having recourse to her workbasket, in excuse for leaning down her face, and concealing all the exquisite feelings of delight and entertain, she added, "Well, now tell ible to me Hohere, when?--Let me know it all I never was more surprized--but it does not make me unhappy, I assure you--Ho has it been possible?"
"It is a very sio, and I got hi to send to John--He delivered these papers to John, at his chambers, and was asked by hi to Astley's
They were going to take the two eldest boys to Astley's The party was to be our brother and sister, Henry, John--and Miss Smith My friend Robert could not resist They called for him in their ere all extremely amused; and my brother asked him to dine with them the next day--which he did--and in the course of that visit (as I understand) he found an opportunity of speaking to Harriet; and certainly did not speak in vain--SheHe ca is, first on my affairs, and then on his own This is all that I can relate of the hohere, and when Your friend Harriet will ive you all the e can reat--However, I must say, that Robert Martin's heart see; and that he didtheir box at Astley's, htley and little John, and he folloith Miss Smith and Henry; and that at one time they were in such a crowd, as to make Miss Smith rather uneasy"
He stopped--Emma dared not attempt any immediate reply To speak, she was sure would be to betray a ree of happiness
She must wait a moment, or he would think herher a little while, he added, "Emma, my love, you said that this circuives you more pain than you expected His situation is an evil--but you must consider it as what satisfies your friend; and I will answer for your thinking better and better of hiood principles would delight you--As far as the man is concerned, you could not wish your friend in better hands His rank in society I would alter if I could, which is saying a great deal I assure you, Eh at me about William Larkins; but I could quite as ill spare Robert Martin"