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1Small heart had Harriet for visiting. Only half an hour before her friend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil
2stars had led her to the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to The Rev. Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath,
3was to be seen under the operation of being lifted into the butcher's cart, which was to convey it to where the coaches
4past; and every thing in this world, excepting that trunk and the direction, was consequently a blank. She went,
5however; and when they reached the farm, and she was to be put down, at the end of the broad, neat gravel walk, which
6led between espalier apple-trees to the front door, the sight of every thing which had given her so much pleasure the
7autumn before, was beginning to revive a little local agitation; and when they parted, Emma observed her to be looking
8around with a sort of fearful curiosity, which determined her not to allow the visit to exceed the proposed quarter of
9an hour. She went on herself, to give that portion of time to an old servant who was married, and settled in Donwell.
10The quarter of an hour brought her punctually to the white gate again; and Miss Smith receiving her summons, was with
11her without delay, and unattended by any alarming young man. She came solitarily down the gravel walk--a Miss Martin
12just appearing at the door, and parting with her seemingly with ceremonious civility. Harriet could not very soon give
13an intelligible account. She was feeling too much; but at last Emma collected from her enough to understand the sort of
14meeting, and the sort of pain it was creating. She had seen only Mrs. Martin and the two girls. They had received her
15doubtingly, if not coolly; and nothing beyond the merest commonplace had been talked almost all the time--till just at
16last, when Mrs. Martin's saying, all of a sudden, that she thought Miss Smith was grown, had brought on a more
17interesting subject, and a warmer manner. In that very room she had been measured last September, with her two friends.
18There were the pencilled marks and memorandums on the wainscot by the window. He had done it. They all seemed to
19remember the day, the hour, the party, the occasion--to feel the same consciousness, the same regrets--to be ready to
20return to the same good understanding; and they were just growing again like themselves, (Harriet, as Emma must suspect,
21as ready as the best of them to be cordial and happy,) when the carriage reappeared, and all was over. The style of the
22visit, and the shortness of it, were then felt to be decisive. Fourteen minutes to be given to those with whom she had
23thankfully passed six weeks not six months ago!--Emma could not but picture it all, and feel how justly they might
24resent, how naturally Harriet must suffer. It was a bad business. She would have given a great deal, or endured a great
25deal, to have had the Martins in a higher rank of life. They were so deserving, that a little higher should have been
26enough: but as it was, how could she have done otherwise?--Impossible!--She could not repent. They must be separated;
27but there was a great deal of pain in the process--so much to herself at this time, that she soon felt the necessity of
28a little consolation, and resolved on going home by way of Randalls to procure it. Her mind was quite sick of Mr. Elton
29and the Martins. The refreshment of Randalls was absolutely necessary. It was a good scheme; but on driving to the door
30they heard that neither "master nor mistress was at home;" they had both been out some time; the man believed they were
31gone to Hartfield. "This is too bad," cried Emma, as they turned away. "And now we shall just miss them; too
32provoking!--I do not know when I have been so disappointed." And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs,
33or to reason them away; probably a little of both--such being the commonest process of a not ill-disposed mind.
34Presently the carriage stopt; she looked up; it was stopt by Mr. and Mrs. Weston, who were standing to speak to her.
35There was instant pleasure in the sight of them, and still greater pleasure was conveyed in sound--for Mr. Weston
36immediately accosted her with, "How d'ye do?--how d'ye do?--We have been sitting with your father--glad to see him so
37well. Frank comes to-morrow--I had a letter this morning--we see him to-morrow by dinner-time to a certainty--he is at
38Oxford to-day, and he comes for a whole fortnight; I knew it would be so. If he had come at Christmas he could not have
39staid three days; I was always glad he did not come at Christmas; now we are going to have just the right weather for
40him, fine, dry, settled weather. We shall enjoy him completely; every thing has turned out exactly as we could wish."
41There was no resisting such news, no possibility of avoiding the influence of such a happy face as Mr. Weston's,
42confirmed as it all was by the words and the countenance of his wife, fewer and quieter, but not less to the purpose. To
43know that she thought his coming certain was enough to make Emma consider it so, and sincerely did she rejoice in their
44joy. It was a most delightful reanimation of exhausted spirits. The worn-out past was sunk in the freshness of what was
45coming; and in the rapidity of half a moment's thought, she hoped Mr. Elton would now be talked of no more. Mr. Weston
46gave her the history of the engagements at Enscombe, which allowed his son to answer for having an entire fortnight at
47his command, as well as the route and the method of his journey; and she listened, and smiled, and congratulated. "I
48shall soon bring him over to Hartfield," said he, at the conclusion. Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at
49this speech, from his wife. "We had better move on, Mr. Weston," said she, "we are detaining the girls." "Well, well, I
50am ready;"--and turning again to Emma, "but you must not be expecting such a very fine young man; you have only had my
51account you know; I dare say he is really nothing extraordinary:"--though his own sparkling eyes at the moment were
52speaking a very different conviction. Emma could look perfectly unconscious and innocent, and answer in a manner that
53appropriated nothing. "Think of me to-morrow, my dear Emma, about four o'clock," was Mrs. Weston's parting injunction;
54spoken with some anxiety, and meant only for her. "Four o'clock!--depend upon it he will be here by three," was Mr.
55Weston's quick amendment; and so ended a most satisfactory meeting. Emma's spirits were mounted quite up to happiness;
56every thing wore a different air; James and his horses seemed not half so sluggish as before. When she looked at the
57hedges, she thought the elder at least must soon be coming out; and when she turned round to Harriet, she saw something
58like a look of spring, a tender smile even there. "Will Mr. Frank Churchill pass through Bath as well as Oxford?"--was a
59question, however, which did not augur much. But neither geography nor tranquillity could come all at once, and Emma was
60now in a humour to resolve that they should both come in time. The morning of the interesting day arrived, and Mrs.
61Weston's faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o'clock, that she was to think of her at
62four. "My dear, dear anxious friend,"--said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room,
63"always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and
64again into his room, to be sure that all is right." The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall. "'Tis
65twelve; I shall not forget to think of you four hours hence; and by this time to-morrow, perhaps, or a little later, I
66may be thinking of the possibility of their all calling here. I am sure they will bring him soon." She opened the
67parlour door, and saw two gentlemen sitting with her father--Mr. Weston and his son. They had been arrived only a few
68minutes, and Mr. Weston had scarcely finished his explanation of Frank's being a day before his time, and her father was
69yet in the midst of his very civil welcome and congratulations, when she appeared, to have her share of surprize,
70introduction, and pleasure.
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