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1Mr. Knightley was to dine with them--rather against the inclination of Mr. Woodhouse, who did not like that any one
2should share with him in Isabella's first day. Emma's sense of right however had decided it; and besides the
3consideration of what was due to each brother, she had particular pleasure, from the circumstance of the late
4disagreement between Mr. Knightley and herself, in procuring him the proper invitation. She hoped they might now become
5friends again. She thought it was time to make up. Making-up indeed would not do. She certainly had not been in the
6wrong, and he would never own that he had. Concession must be out of the question; but it was time to appear to forget
7that they had ever quarrelled; and she hoped it might rather assist the restoration of friendship, that when he came
8into the room she had one of the children with her--the youngest, a nice little girl about eight months old, who was now
9making her first visit to Hartfield, and very happy to be danced about in her aunt's arms. It did assist; for though he
10began with grave looks and short questions, he was soon led on to talk of them all in the usual way, and to take the
11child out of her arms with all the unceremoniousness of perfect amity. Emma felt they were friends again; and the
12conviction giving her at first great satisfaction, and then a little sauciness, she could not help saying, as he was
13admiring the baby, "What a comfort it is, that we think alike about our nephews and nieces. As to men and women, our
14opinions are sometimes very different; but with regard to these children, I observe we never disagree." "If you were as
15much guided by nature in your estimate of men and women, and as little under the power of fancy and whim in your
16dealings with them, as you are where these children are concerned, we might always think alike." "To be sure--our
17discordancies must always arise from my being in the wrong." "Yes," said he, smiling--"and reason good. I was sixteen
18years old when you were born." "A material difference then," she replied--"and no doubt you were much my superior in
19judgment at that period of our lives; but does not the lapse of one-and-twenty years bring our understandings a good
20deal nearer?" "Yes--a good deal nearer." "But still, not near enough to give me a chance of being right, if we think
21differently." "I have still the advantage of you by sixteen years' experience, and by not being a pretty young woman and
22a spoiled child. Come, my dear Emma, let us be friends, and say no more about it. Tell your aunt, little Emma, that she
23ought to set you a better example than to be renewing old grievances, and that if she were not wrong before, she is
24now." "That's true," she cried--"very true. Little Emma, grow up a better woman than your aunt. Be infinitely cleverer
25and not half so conceited. Now, Mr. Knightley, a word or two more, and I have done. As far as good intentions went, we
26were both right, and I must say that no effects on my side of the argument have yet proved wrong. I only want to know
27that Mr. Martin is not very, very bitterly disappointed." "A man cannot be more so," was his short, full answer.
28"Ah!--Indeed I am very sorry.--Come, shake hands with me." This had just taken place and with great cordiality, when
29John Knightley made his appearance, and "How d'ye do, George?" and "John, how are you?" succeeded in the true English
30style, burying under a calmness that seemed all but indifference, the real attachment which would have led either of
31them, if requisite, to do every thing for the good of the other. The evening was quiet and conversable, as Mr. Woodhouse
32declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear Isabella, and the little party made two natural
33divisions; on one side he and his daughter; on the other the two Mr. Knightleys; their subjects totally distinct, or
34very rarely mixing--and Emma only occasionally joining in one or the other. The brothers talked of their own concerns
35and pursuits, but principally of those of the elder, whose temper was by much the most communicative, and who was always
36the greater talker. As a magistrate, he had generally some point of law to consult John about, or, at least, some
37curious anecdote to give; and as a farmer, as keeping in hand the home-farm at Donwell, he had to tell what every field
38was to bear next year, and to give all such local information as could not fail of being interesting to a brother whose
39home it had equally been the longest part of his life, and whose attachments were strong. The plan of a drain, the
40change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was
41entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing
42brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness. While they were
43thus comfortably occupied, Mr. Woodhouse was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and fearful affection with his
44daughter. "My poor dear Isabella," said he, fondly taking her hand, and interrupting, for a few moments, her busy
45labours for some one of her five children--"How long it is, how terribly long since you were here! And how tired you
46must be after your journey! You must go to bed early, my dear--and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.--You
47and I will have a nice basin of gruel together. My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel." Emma could not
48suppose any such thing, knowing as she did, that both the Mr. Knightleys were as unpersuadable on that article as
49herself;--and two basins only were ordered. After a little more discourse in praise of gruel, with some wondering at its
50not being taken every evening by every body, he proceeded to say, with an air of grave reflection, "It was an awkward
51business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here. I never had much opinion of the sea
52air." "Mr. Wingfield most strenuously recommended it, sir--or we should not have gone. He recommended it for all the
53children, but particularly for the weakness in little Bella's throat,--both sea air and bathing." "Ah! my dear, but
54Perry had many doubts about the sea doing her any good; and as to myself, I have been long perfectly convinced, though
55perhaps I never told you so before, that the sea is very rarely of use to any body. I am sure it almost killed me once."
56"Come, come," cried Emma, feeling this to be an unsafe subject, "I must beg you not to talk of the sea. It makes me
57envious and miserable;--I who have never seen it! South End is prohibited, if you please. My dear Isabella, I have not
58heard you make one inquiry about Mr. Perry yet; and he never forgets you." "Oh! good Mr. Perry--how is he, sir?" "Why,
59pretty well; but not quite well. Poor Perry is bilious, and he has not time to take care of himself--he tells me he has
60not time to take care of himself--which is very sad--but he is always wanted all round the country. I suppose there is
61not a man in such practice anywhere. But then there is not so clever a man any where." "And Mrs. Perry and the children,
62how are they? do the children grow? I have a great regard for Mr. Perry. I hope he will be calling soon. He will be so
63pleased to see my little ones." "I hope he will be here to-morrow, for I have a question or two to ask him about myself
64of some consequence. And, my dear, whenever he comes, you had better let him look at little Bella's throat." "Oh! my
65dear sir, her throat is so much better that I have hardly any uneasiness about it. Either bathing has been of the
66greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of Mr. Wingfield's, which we have
67been applying at times ever since August." "It is not very likely, my dear, that bathing should have been of use to
68her--and if I had known you were wanting an embrocation, I would have spoken to-- "You seem to me to have forgotten Mrs.
69and Miss Bates," said Emma, "I have not heard one inquiry after them."
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