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1"Thank you. You are very kind. Yes, next week. Every body is so surprized; and every body says the same obliging things.
2I am sure she will be as happy to see her friends at Highbury, as they can be to see her. Yes, Friday or Saturday; she
3cannot say which, because Colonel Campbell will be wanting the carriage himself one of those days. So very good of them
4to send her the whole way! But they always do, you know. Oh yes, Friday or Saturday next. That is what she writes about.
5That is the reason of her writing out of rule, as we call it; for, in the common course, we should not have heard from
6her before next Tuesday or Wednesday." "Yes, so I imagined. I was afraid there could be little chance of my hearing any
7thing of Miss Fairfax to-day." "So obliging of you! No, we should not have heard, if it had not been for this particular
8circumstance, of her being to come here so soon. My mother is so delighted!--for she is to be three months with us at
9least. Three months, she says so, positively, as I am going to have the pleasure of reading to you. The case is, you
10see, that the Campbells are going to Ireland. Mrs. Dixon has persuaded her father and mother to come over and see her
11directly. They had not intended to go over till the summer, but she is so impatient to see them again--for till she
12married, last October, she was never away from them so much as a week, which must make it very strange to be in
13different kingdoms, I was going to say, but however different countries, and so she wrote a very urgent letter to her
14mother--or her father, I declare I do not know which it was, but we shall see presently in Jane's letter--wrote in Mr.
15Dixon's name as well as her own, to press their coming over directly, and they would give them the meeting in Dublin,
16and take them back to their country seat, Baly-craig, a beautiful place, I fancy. Jane has heard a great deal of its
17beauty; from Mr. Dixon, I mean--I do not know that she ever heard about it from any body else; but it was very natural,
18you know, that he should like to speak of his own place while he was paying his addresses--and as Jane used to be very
19often walking out with them--for Colonel and Mrs. Campbell were very particular about their daughter's not walking out
20often with only Mr. Dixon, for which I do not at all blame them; of course she heard every thing he might be telling
21Miss Campbell about his own home in Ireland; and I think she wrote us word that he had shewn them some drawings of the
22place, views that he had taken himself. He is a most amiable, charming young man, I believe. Jane was quite longing to
23go to Ireland, from his account of things." At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma's brain
24with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design
25of farther discovery, "You must feel it very fortunate that Miss Fairfax should be allowed to come to you at such a
26time. Considering the very particular friendship between her and Mrs. Dixon, you could hardly have expected her to be
27excused from accompanying Colonel and Mrs. Campbell." "Very true, very true, indeed. The very thing that we have always
28been rather afraid of; for we should not have liked to have her at such a distance from us, for months together--not
29able to come if any thing was to happen. But you see, every thing turns out for the best. They want her (Mr. and Mrs.
30Dixon) excessively to come over with Colonel and Mrs. Campbell; quite depend upon it; nothing can be more kind or
31pressing than their joint invitation, Jane says, as you will hear presently; Mr. Dixon does not seem in the least
32backward in any attention. He is a most charming young man. Ever since the service he rendered Jane at Weymouth, when
33they were out in that party on the water, and she, by the sudden whirling round of something or other among the sails,
34would have been dashed into the sea at once, and actually was all but gone, if he had not, with the greatest presence of
35mind, caught hold of her habit-- (I can never think of it without trembling!)--But ever since we had the history of that
36day, I have been so fond of Mr. Dixon!" "But, in spite of all her friends' urgency, and her own wish of seeing Ireland,
37Miss Fairfax prefers devoting the time to you and Mrs. Bates?" "Yes--entirely her own doing, entirely her own choice;
38and Colonel and Mrs. Campbell think she does quite right, just what they should recommend; and indeed they particularly
39wish her to try her native air, as she has not been quite so well as usual lately." "I am concerned to hear of it. I
40think they judge wisely. But Mrs. Dixon must be very much disappointed. Mrs. Dixon, I understand, has no remarkable
41degree of personal beauty; is not, by any means, to be compared with Miss Fairfax." "Oh! no. You are very obliging to
42say such things--but certainly not. There is no comparison between them. Miss Campbell always was absolutely plain--but
43extremely elegant and amiable." "Yes, that of course." "Jane caught a bad cold, poor thing! so long ago as the 7th of
44November, (as I am going to read to you,) and has never been well since. A long time, is not it, for a cold to hang upon
45her? She never mentioned it before, because she would not alarm us. Just like her! so considerate!--But however, she is
46so far from well, that her kind friends the Campbells think she had better come home, and try an air that always agrees
47with her; and they have no doubt that three or four months at Highbury will entirely cure her--and it is certainly a
48great deal better that she should come here, than go to Ireland, if she is unwell. Nobody could nurse her, as we should
49do." "It appears to me the most desirable arrangement in the world." "And so she is to come to us next Friday or
50Saturday, and the Campbells leave town in their way to Holyhead the Monday following--as you will find from Jane's
51letter. So sudden!--You may guess, dear Miss Woodhouse, what a flurry it has thrown me in! If it was not for the
52drawback of her illness--but I am afraid we must expect to see her grown thin, and looking very poorly. I must tell you
53what an unlucky thing happened to me, as to that. I always make a point of reading Jane's letters through to myself
54first, before I read them aloud to my mother, you know, for fear of there being any thing in them to distress her. Jane
55desired me to do it, so I always do: and so I began to-day with my usual caution; but no sooner did I come to the
56mention of her being unwell, than I burst out, quite frightened, with 'Bless me! poor Jane is ill!'--which my mother,
57being on the watch, heard distinctly, and was sadly alarmed at. However, when I read on, I found it was not near so bad
58as I had fancied at first; and I make so light of it now to her, that she does not think much about it. But I cannot
59imagine how I could be so off my guard. If Jane does not get well soon, we will call in Mr. Perry. The expense shall not
60be thought of; and though he is so liberal, and so fond of Jane that I dare say he would not mean to charge any thing
61for attendance, we could not suffer it to be so, you know. He has a wife and family to maintain, and is not to be giving
62away his time. Well, now I have just given you a hint of what Jane writes about, we will turn to her letter, and I am
63sure she tells her own story a great deal better than I can tell it for her." "I am afraid we must be running away,"
64said Emma, glancing at Harriet, and beginning to rise--"My father will be expecting us. I had no intention, I thought I
65had no power of staying more than five minutes, when I first entered the house. I merely called, because I would not
66pass the door without inquiring after Mrs. Bates; but I have been so pleasantly detained! Now, however, we must wish you
67and Mrs. Bates good morning." And not all that could be urged to detain her succeeded. She regained the street--happy in
68this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane
69Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.
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