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1A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand,
2and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began: "Miss Woodhouse--if you are at leisure--I have something that I
3should like to tell you--a sort of confession to make--and then, you know, it will be over." Emma was a good deal
4surprized; but begged her to speak. There was a seriousness in Harriet's manner which prepared her, quite as much as her
5words, for something more than ordinary. "It is my duty, and I am sure it is my wish," she continued, "to have no
6reserves with you on this subject. As I am happily quite an altered creature in one respect, it is very fit that you
7should have the satisfaction of knowing it. I do not want to say more than is necessary--I am too much ashamed of having
8given way as I have done, and I dare say you understand me." "Yes," said Emma, "I hope I do." "How I could so long a
9time be fancying myself!..." cried Harriet, warmly. "It seems like madness! I can see nothing at all extraordinary in
10him now.--I do not care whether I meet him or not--except that of the two I had rather not see him--and indeed I would
11go any distance round to avoid him--but I do not envy his wife in the least; I neither admire her nor envy her, as I
12have done: she is very charming, I dare say, and all that, but I think her very ill-tempered and disagreeable--I shall
13never forget her look the other night!--However, I assure you, Miss Woodhouse, I wish her no evil.--No, let them be ever
14so happy together, it will not give me another moment's pang: and to convince you that I have been speaking truth, I am
15now going to destroy--what I ought to have destroyed long ago--what I ought never to have kept--I know that very well
16(blushing as she spoke).--However, now I will destroy it all--and it is my particular wish to do it in your presence,
17that you may see how rational I am grown. Cannot you guess what this parcel holds?" said she, with a conscious look.
18"Not the least in the world.--Did he ever give you any thing?" "No--I cannot call them gifts; but they are things that I
19have valued very much." She held the parcel towards her, and Emma read the words Most precious treasures on the top. Her
20curiosity was greatly excited. Harriet unfolded the parcel, and she looked on with impatience. Within abundance of
21silver paper was a pretty little Tunbridge-ware box, which Harriet opened: it was well lined with the softest cotton;
22but, excepting the cotton, Emma saw only a small piece of court-plaister. "Now," said Harriet, "you must recollect."
23"No, indeed I do not." "Dear me! I should not have thought it possible you could forget what passed in this very room
24about court-plaister, one of the very last times we ever met in it!--It was but a very few days before I had my sore
25throat--just before Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley came--I think the very evening.--Do not you remember his cutting his
26finger with your new penknife, and your recommending court-plaister?--But, as you had none about you, and knew I had,
27you desired me to supply him; and so I took mine out and cut him a piece; but it was a great deal too large, and he cut
28it smaller, and kept playing some time with what was left, before he gave it back to me. And so then, in my nonsense, I
29could not help making a treasure of it--so I put it by never to be used, and looked at it now and then as a great
30treat." "My dearest Harriet!" cried Emma, putting her hand before her face, and jumping up, "you make me more ashamed of
31myself than I can bear. Remember it? Aye, I remember it all now; all, except your saving this relic--I knew nothing of
32that till this moment--but the cutting the finger, and my recommending court-plaister, and saying I had none about
33me!--Oh! my sins, my sins!--And I had plenty all the while in my pocket!--One of my senseless tricks!--I deserve to be
34under a continual blush all the rest of my life.--Well--(sitting down again)--go on--what else?" "And had you really
35some at hand yourself? I am sure I never suspected it, you did it so naturally." "And so you actually put this piece of
36court-plaister by for his sake!" said Emma, recovering from her state of shame and feeling divided between wonder and
37amusement. And secretly she added to herself, "Lord bless me! when should I ever have thought of putting by in cotton a
38piece of court-plaister that Frank Churchill had been pulling about! I never was equal to this." "Here," resumed
39Harriet, turning to her box again, "here is something still more valuable, I mean that has been more valuable, because
40this is what did really once belong to him, which the court-plaister never did." Emma was quite eager to see this
41superior treasure. It was the end of an old pencil,--the part without any lead. "This was really his," said
42Harriet.--"Do not you remember one morning?--no, I dare say you do not. But one morning--I forget exactly the day--but
43perhaps it was the Tuesday or Wednesday before that evening, he wanted to make a memorandum in his pocket-book; it was
44about spruce-beer. Mr. Knightley had been telling him something about brewing spruce-beer, and he wanted to put it down;
45but when he took out his pencil, there was so little lead that he soon cut it all away, and it would not do, so you lent
46him another, and this was left upon the table as good for nothing. But I kept my eye on it; and, as soon as I dared,
47caught it up, and never parted with it again from that moment." "I do remember it," cried Emma; "I perfectly remember
48it.--Talking about spruce-beer.--Oh! yes--Mr. Knightley and I both saying we liked it, and Mr. Elton's seeming resolved
49to learn to like it too. I perfectly remember it.--Stop; Mr. Knightley was standing just here, was not he? I have an
50idea he was standing just here." "Ah! I do not know. I cannot recollect.--It is very odd, but I cannot recollect.--Mr.
51Elton was sitting here, I remember, much about where I am now."-- "Well, go on." "Oh! that's all. I have nothing more to
52shew you, or to say--except that I am now going to throw them both behind the fire, and I wish you to see me do it." "My
53poor dear Harriet! and have you actually found happiness in treasuring up these things?" "Yes, simpleton as I was!--but
54I am quite ashamed of it now, and wish I could forget as easily as I can burn them. It was very wrong of me, you know,
55to keep any remembrances, after he was married. I knew it was--but had not resolution enough to part with them." "But,
56Harriet, is it necessary to burn the court-plaister?--I have not a word to say for the bit of old pencil, but the
57court-plaister might be useful." "I shall be happier to burn it," replied Harriet. "It has a disagreeable look to me. I
58must get rid of every thing.--There it goes, and there is an end, thank Heaven! of Mr. Elton." "And when," thought Emma,
59"will there be a beginning of Mr. Churchill?" She had soon afterwards reason to believe that the beginning was already
60made, and could not but hope that the gipsy, though she had told no fortune, might be proved to have made
61Harriet's.--About a fortnight after the alarm, they came to a sufficient explanation, and quite undesignedly. Emma was
62not thinking of it at the moment, which made the information she received more valuable. She merely said, in the course
63of some trivial chat, "Well, Harriet, whenever you marry I would advise you to do so and so"--and thought no more of it,
64till after a minute's silence she heard Harriet say in a very serious tone, "I shall never marry." Emma then looked up,
65and immediately saw how it was; and after a moment's debate, as to whether it should pass unnoticed or not, replied,
66"Never marry!--This is a new resolution." "It is one that I shall never change, however." After another short
67hesitation, "I hope it does not proceed from--I hope it is not in compliment to Mr. Elton?" "Mr. Elton indeed!" cried
68Harriet indignantly.--"Oh! no"--and Emma could just catch the words, "so superior to Mr. Elton!"
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