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1Mr. Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drank his tea he was quite ready to go home; and it was as
2much as his three companions could do, to entertain away his notice of the lateness of the hour, before the other
3gentlemen appeared. Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the
4drawing-room party did receive an augmentation. Mr. Elton, in very good spirits, was one of the first to walk in. Mrs.
5Weston and Emma were sitting together on a sofa. He joined them immediately, and, with scarcely an invitation, seated
6himself between them. Emma, in good spirits too, from the amusement afforded her mind by the expectation of Mr. Frank
7Churchill, was willing to forget his late improprieties, and be as well satisfied with him as before, and on his making
8Harriet his very first subject, was ready to listen with most friendly smiles. He professed himself extremely anxious
9about her fair friend--her fair, lovely, amiable friend. "Did she know?--had she heard any thing about her, since their
10being at Randalls?--he felt much anxiety--he must confess that the nature of her complaint alarmed him considerably."
11And in this style he talked on for some time very properly, not much attending to any answer, but altogether
12sufficiently awake to the terror of a bad sore throat; and Emma was quite in charity with him. But at last there seemed
13a perverse turn; it seemed all at once as if he were more afraid of its being a bad sore throat on her account, than on
14Harriet's--more anxious that she should escape the infection, than that there should be no infection in the complaint.
15He began with great earnestness to entreat her to refrain from visiting the sick-chamber again, for the present--to
16entreat her to promise him not to venture into such hazard till he had seen Mr. Perry and learnt his opinion; and though
17she tried to laugh it off and bring the subject back into its proper course, there was no putting an end to his extreme
18solicitude about her. She was vexed. It did appear--there was no concealing it--exactly like the pretence of being in
19love with her, instead of Harriet; an inconstancy, if real, the most contemptible and abominable! and she had difficulty
20in behaving with temper. He turned to Mrs. Weston to implore her assistance, "Would not she give him her support?--would
21not she add her persuasions to his, to induce Miss Woodhouse not to go to Mrs. Goddard's till it were certain that Miss
22Smith's disorder had no infection? He could not be satisfied without a promise--would not she give him her influence in
23procuring it?" "So scrupulous for others," he continued, "and yet so careless for herself! She wanted me to nurse my
24cold by staying at home to-day, and yet will not promise to avoid the danger of catching an ulcerated sore throat
25herself. Is this fair, Mrs. Weston?--Judge between us. Have not I some right to complain? I am sure of your kind support
26and aid." Emma saw Mrs. Weston's surprize, and felt that it must be great, at an address which, in words and manner, was
27assuming to himself the right of first interest in her; and as for herself, she was too much provoked and offended to
28have the power of directly saying any thing to the purpose. She could only give him a look; but it was such a look as
29she thought must restore him to his senses, and then left the sofa, removing to a seat by her sister, and giving her all
30her attention. She had not time to know how Mr. Elton took the reproof, so rapidly did another subject succeed; for Mr.
31John Knightley now came into the room from examining the weather, and opened on them all with the information of the
32ground being covered with snow, and of its still snowing fast, with a strong drifting wind; concluding with these words
33to Mr. Woodhouse: "This will prove a spirited beginning of your winter engagements, sir. Something new for your coachman
34and horses to be making their way through a storm of snow." Poor Mr. Woodhouse was silent from consternation; but every
35body else had something to say; every body was either surprized or not surprized, and had some question to ask, or some
36comfort to offer. Mrs. Weston and Emma tried earnestly to cheer him and turn his attention from his son-in-law, who was
37pursuing his triumph rather unfeelingly. "I admired your resolution very much, sir," said he, "in venturing out in such
38weather, for of course you saw there would be snow very soon. Every body must have seen the snow coming on. I admired
39your spirit; and I dare say we shall get home very well. Another hour or two's snow can hardly make the road impassable;
40and we are two carriages; if one is blown over in the bleak part of the common field there will be the other at hand. I
41dare say we shall be all safe at Hartfield before midnight." Mr. Weston, with triumph of a different sort, was
42confessing that he had known it to be snowing some time, but had not said a word, lest it should make Mr. Woodhouse
43uncomfortable, and be an excuse for his hurrying away. As to there being any quantity of snow fallen or likely to fall
44to impede their return, that was a mere joke; he was afraid they would find no difficulty. He wished the road might be
45impassable, that he might be able to keep them all at Randalls; and with the utmost good-will was sure that
46accommodation might be found for every body, calling on his wife to agree with him, that with a little contrivance,
47every body might be lodged, which she hardly knew how to do, from the consciousness of there being but two spare rooms
48in the house. "What is to be done, my dear Emma?--what is to be done?" was Mr. Woodhouse's first exclamation, and all
49that he could say for some time. To her he looked for comfort; and her assurances of safety, her representation of the
50excellence of the horses, and of James, and of their having so many friends about them, revived him a little. His eldest
51daughter's alarm was equal to his own. The horror of being blocked up at Randalls, while her children were at Hartfield,
52was full in her imagination; and fancying the road to be now just passable for adventurous people, but in a state that
53admitted no delay, she was eager to have it settled, that her father and Emma should remain at Randalls, while she and
54her husband set forward instantly through all the possible accumulations of drifted snow that might impede them. "You
55had better order the carriage directly, my love," said she; "I dare say we shall be able to get along, if we set off
56directly; and if we do come to any thing very bad, I can get out and walk. I am not at all afraid. I should not mind
57walking half the way. I could change my shoes, you know, the moment I got home; and it is not the sort of thing that
58gives me cold." "Indeed!" replied he. "Then, my dear Isabella, it is the most extraordinary sort of thing in the world,
59for in general every thing does give you cold. Walk home!--you are prettily shod for walking home, I dare say. It will
60be bad enough for the horses." Isabella turned to Mrs. Weston for her approbation of the plan. Mrs. Weston could only
61approve. Isabella then went to Emma; but Emma could not so entirely give up the hope of their being all able to get
62away; and they were still discussing the point, when Mr. Knightley, who had left the room immediately after his
63brother's first report of the snow, came back again, and told them that he had been out of doors to examine, and could
64answer for there not being the smallest difficulty in their getting home, whenever they liked it, either now or an hour
65hence. He had gone beyond the sweep--some way along the Highbury road--the snow was nowhere above half an inch deep--in
66many places hardly enough to whiten the ground; a very few flakes were falling at present, but the clouds were parting,
67and there was every appearance of its being soon over. He had seen the coachmen, and they both agreed with him in there
68being nothing to apprehend.
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