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1Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of
2the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning,
3being at Hartfield again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole; not so openly as he might have
4done had her father been out of the room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma. He had been used to
5think her unjust to Jane, and had now great pleasure in marking an improvement. "A very pleasant evening," he began, as
6soon as Mr. Woodhouse had been talked into what was necessary, told that he understood, and the papers swept
7away;--"particularly pleasant. You and Miss Fairfax gave us some very good music. I do not know a more luxurious state,
8sir, than sitting at one's ease to be entertained a whole evening by two such young women; sometimes with music and
9sometimes with conversation. I am sure Miss Fairfax must have found the evening pleasant, Emma. You left nothing undone.
10I was glad you made her play so much, for having no instrument at her grandmother's, it must have been a real
11indulgence." "I am happy you approved," said Emma, smiling; "but I hope I am not often deficient in what is due to
12guests at Hartfield." "No, my dear," said her father instantly; "that I am sure you are not. There is nobody half so
13attentive and civil as you are. If any thing, you are too attentive. The muffin last night--if it had been handed round
14once, I think it would have been enough." "No," said Mr. Knightley, nearly at the same time; "you are not often
15deficient; not often deficient either in manner or comprehension. I think you understand me, therefore." An arch look
16expressed--"I understand you well enough;" but she said only, "Miss Fairfax is reserved." "I always told you she was--a
17little; but you will soon overcome all that part of her reserve which ought to be overcome, all that has its foundation
18in diffidence. What arises from discretion must be honoured." "You think her diffident. I do not see it." "My dear
19Emma," said he, moving from his chair into one close by her, "you are not going to tell me, I hope, that you had not a
20pleasant evening." "Oh! no; I was pleased with my own perseverance in asking questions; and amused to think how little
21information I obtained." "I am disappointed," was his only answer. "I hope every body had a pleasant evening," said Mr.
22Woodhouse, in his quiet way. "I had. Once, I felt the fire rather too much; but then I moved back my chair a little, a
23very little, and it did not disturb me. Miss Bates was very chatty and good-humoured, as she always is, though she
24speaks rather too quick. However, she is very agreeable, and Mrs. Bates too, in a different way. I like old friends; and
25Miss Jane Fairfax is a very pretty sort of young lady, a very pretty and a very well-behaved young lady indeed. She must
26have found the evening agreeable, Mr. Knightley, because she had Emma." "True, sir; and Emma, because she had Miss
27Fairfax." Emma saw his anxiety, and wishing to appease it, at least for the present, said, and with a sincerity which no
28one could question-- "She is a sort of elegant creature that one cannot keep one's eyes from. I am always watching her
29to admire; and I do pity her from my heart." Mr. Knightley looked as if he were more gratified than he cared to express;
30and before he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said-- "It is a great pity that
31their circumstances should be so confined! a great pity indeed! and I have often wished--but it is so little one can
32venture to do--small, trifling presents, of any thing uncommon--Now we have killed a porker, and Emma thinks of sending
33them a loin or a leg; it is very small and delicate--Hartfield pork is not like any other pork--but still it is
34pork--and, my dear Emma, unless one could be sure of their making it into steaks, nicely fried, as ours are fried,
35without the smallest grease, and not roast it, for no stomach can bear roast pork--I think we had better send the
36leg--do not you think so, my dear?" "My dear papa, I sent the whole hind-quarter. I knew you would wish it. There will
37be the leg to be salted, you know, which is so very nice, and the loin to be dressed directly in any manner they like."
38"That's right, my dear, very right. I had not thought of it before, but that is the best way. They must not over-salt
39the leg; and then, if it is not over-salted, and if it is very thoroughly boiled, just as Serle boils ours, and eaten
40very moderately of, with a boiled turnip, and a little carrot or parsnip, I do not consider it unwholesome." "Emma,"
41said Mr. Knightley presently, "I have a piece of news for you. You like news--and I heard an article in my way hither
42that I think will interest you." "News! Oh! yes, I always like news. What is it?--why do you smile so?--where did you
43hear it?--at Randalls?" He had time only to say, "No, not at Randalls; I have not been near Randalls," when the door was
44thrown open, and Miss Bates and Miss Fairfax walked into the room. Full of thanks, and full of news, Miss Bates knew not
45which to give quickest. Mr. Knightley soon saw that he had lost his moment, and that not another syllable of
46communication could rest with him. "Oh! my dear sir, how are you this morning? My dear Miss Woodhouse--I come quite
47over-powered. Such a beautiful hind-quarter of pork! You are too bountiful! Have you heard the news? Mr. Elton is going
48to be married." Emma had not had time even to think of Mr. Elton, and she was so completely surprized that she could not
49avoid a little start, and a little blush, at the sound. "There is my news:--I thought it would interest you," said Mr.
50Knightley, with a smile which implied a conviction of some part of what had passed between them. "But where could you
51hear it?" cried Miss Bates. "Where could you possibly hear it, Mr. Knightley? For it is not five minutes since I
52received Mrs. Cole's note--no, it cannot be more than five--or at least ten--for I had got my bonnet and spencer on,
53just ready to come out--I was only gone down to speak to Patty again about the pork--Jane was standing in the
54passage--were not you, Jane?--for my mother was so afraid that we had not any salting-pan large enough. So I said I
55would go down and see, and Jane said, 'Shall I go down instead? for I think you have a little cold, and Patty has been
56washing the kitchen.'--'Oh! my dear,' said I--well, and just then came the note. A Miss Hawkins--that's all I know. A
57Miss Hawkins of Bath. But, Mr. Knightley, how could you possibly have heard it? for the very moment Mr. Cole told Mrs.
58Cole of it, she sat down and wrote to me. A Miss Hawkins--" "I was with Mr. Cole on business an hour and a half ago. He
59had just read Elton's letter as I was shewn in, and handed it to me directly." "Well! that is quite--I suppose there
60never was a piece of news more generally interesting. My dear sir, you really are too bountiful. My mother desires her
61very best compliments and regards, and a thousand thanks, and says you really quite oppress her." "We consider our
62Hartfield pork," replied Mr. Woodhouse--"indeed it certainly is, so very superior to all other pork, that Emma and I
63cannot have a greater pleasure than--" "Oh! my dear sir, as my mother says, our friends are only too good to us. If ever
64there were people who, without having great wealth themselves, had every thing they could wish for, I am sure it is us.
65We may well say that 'our lot is cast in a goodly heritage.' Well, Mr. Knightley, and so you actually saw the letter;
66well--" "It was short--merely to announce--but cheerful, exulting, of course."-- Here was a sly glance at Emma. "He had
67been so fortunate as to--I forget the precise words--one has no business to remember them. The information was, as you
68state, that he was going to be married to a Miss Hawkins. By his style, I should imagine it just settled." "Mr. Elton
69going to be married!" said Emma, as soon as she could speak. "He will have every body's wishes for his happiness."
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