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1Mrs. Weston's friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the satisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to
2Emma, it was by knowing her to be the mother of a little girl. She had been decided in wishing for a Miss Weston. She
3would not acknowledge that it was with any view of making a match for her, hereafter, with either of Isabella's sons;
4but she was convinced that a daughter would suit both father and mother best. It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston,
5as he grew older--and even Mr. Weston might be growing older ten years hence--to have his fireside enlivened by the
6sports and the nonsense, the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished from home; and Mrs. Weston--no one could
7doubt that a daughter would be most to her; and it would be quite a pity that any one who so well knew how to teach,
8should not have their powers in exercise again. "She has had the advantage, you know, of practising on me," she
9continued--"like La Baronne d'Almane on La Comtesse d'Ostalis, in Madame de Genlis' Adelaide and Theodore, and we shall
10now see her own little Adelaide educated on a more perfect plan." "That is," replied Mr. Knightley, "she will indulge
11her even more than she did you, and believe that she does not indulge her at all. It will be the only difference." "Poor
12child!" cried Emma; "at that rate, what will become of her?" "Nothing very bad.--The fate of thousands. She will be
13disagreeable in infancy, and correct herself as she grows older. I am losing all my bitterness against spoilt children,
14my dearest Emma. I, who am owing all my happiness to you, would not it be horrible ingratitude in me to be severe on
15them?" Emma laughed, and replied: "But I had the assistance of all your endeavours to counteract the indulgence of other
16people. I doubt whether my own sense would have corrected me without it." "Do you?--I have no doubt. Nature gave you
17understanding:--Miss Taylor gave you principles. You must have done well. My interference was quite as likely to do harm
18as good. It was very natural for you to say, what right has he to lecture me?--and I am afraid very natural for you to
19feel that it was done in a disagreeable manner. I do not believe I did you any good. The good was all to myself, by
20making you an object of the tenderest affection to me. I could not think about you so much without doating on you,
21faults and all; and by dint of fancying so many errors, have been in love with you ever since you were thirteen at
22least." "I am sure you were of use to me," cried Emma. "I was very often influenced rightly by you--oftener than I would
23own at the time. I am very sure you did me good. And if poor little Anna Weston is to be spoiled, it will be the
24greatest humanity in you to do as much for her as you have done for me, except falling in love with her when she is
25thirteen." "How often, when you were a girl, have you said to me, with one of your saucy looks--'Mr. Knightley, I am
26going to do so-and-so; papa says I may, or I have Miss Taylor's leave'--something which, you knew, I did not approve. In
27such cases my interference was giving you two bad feelings instead of one." "What an amiable creature I was!--No wonder
28you should hold my speeches in such affectionate remembrance." "'Mr. Knightley.'--You always called me, 'Mr. Knightley;'
29and, from habit, it has not so very formal a sound.--And yet it is formal. I want you to call me something else, but I
30do not know what." "I remember once calling you 'George,' in one of my amiable fits, about ten years ago. I did it
31because I thought it would offend you; but, as you made no objection, I never did it again." "And cannot you call me
32'George' now?" "Impossible!--I never can call you any thing but 'Mr. Knightley.' I will not promise even to equal the
33elegant terseness of Mrs. Elton, by calling you Mr. K.--But I will promise," she added presently, laughing and
34blushing--"I will promise to call you once by your Christian name. I do not say when, but perhaps you may guess
35where;--in the building in which N. takes M. for better, for worse." Emma grieved that she could not be more openly just
36to one important service which his better sense would have rendered her, to the advice which would have saved her from
37the worst of all her womanly follies--her wilful intimacy with Harriet Smith; but it was too tender a subject.--She
38could not enter on it.--Harriet was very seldom mentioned between them. This, on his side, might merely proceed from her
39not being thought of; but Emma was rather inclined to attribute it to delicacy, and a suspicion, from some appearances,
40that their friendship were declining. She was aware herself, that, parting under any other circumstances, they certainly
41should have corresponded more, and that her intelligence would not have rested, as it now almost wholly did, on
42Isabella's letters. He might observe that it was so. The pain of being obliged to practise concealment towards him, was
43very little inferior to the pain of having made Harriet unhappy. Isabella sent quite as good an account of her visitor
44as could be expected; on her first arrival she had thought her out of spirits, which appeared perfectly natural, as
45there was a dentist to be consulted; but, since that business had been over, she did not appear to find Harriet
46different from what she had known her before.--Isabella, to be sure, was no very quick observer; yet if Harriet had not
47been equal to playing with the children, it would not have escaped her. Emma's comforts and hopes were most agreeably
48carried on, by Harriet's being to stay longer; her fortnight was likely to be a month at least. Mr. and Mrs. John
49Knightley were to come down in August, and she was invited to remain till they could bring her back. "John does not even
50mention your friend," said Mr. Knightley. "Here is his answer, if you like to see it." It was the answer to the
51communication of his intended marriage. Emma accepted it with a very eager hand, with an impatience all alive to know
52what he would say about it, and not at all checked by hearing that her friend was unmentioned. "John enters like a
53brother into my happiness," continued Mr. Knightley, "but he is no complimenter; and though I well know him to have,
54likewise, a most brotherly affection for you, he is so far from making flourishes, that any other young woman might
55think him rather cool in her praise. But I am not afraid of your seeing what he writes." "He writes like a sensible
56man," replied Emma, when she had read the letter. "I honour his sincerity. It is very plain that he considers the good
57fortune of the engagement as all on my side, but that he is not without hope of my growing, in time, as worthy of your
58affection, as you think me already. Had he said any thing to bear a different construction, I should not have believed
59him." "My Emma, he means no such thing. He only means--" "He and I should differ very little in our estimation of the
60two," interrupted she, with a sort of serious smile--"much less, perhaps, than he is aware of, if we could enter without
61ceremony or reserve on the subject." "Emma, my dear Emma--" "Oh!" she cried with more thorough gaiety, "if you fancy
62your brother does not do me justice, only wait till my dear father is in the secret, and hear his opinion. Depend upon
63it, he will be much farther from doing you justice. He will think all the happiness, all the advantage, on your side of
64the question; all the merit on mine. I wish I may not sink into 'poor Emma' with him at once.--His tender compassion
65towards oppressed worth can go no farther." "Ah!" he cried, "I wish your father might be half as easily convinced as
66John will be, of our having every right that equal worth can give, to be happy together. I am amused by one part of
67John's letter--did you notice it?--where he says, that my information did not take him wholly by surprize, that he was
68rather in expectation of hearing something of the kind." "If I understand your brother, he only means so far as your
69having some thoughts of marrying. He had no idea of me. He seems perfectly unprepared for that."
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