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1"You will not find either, between Donwell and Highbury. Donwell Lane is never dusty, and now it is perfectly dry. Come
2on a donkey, however, if you prefer it. You can borrow Mrs. Cole's. I would wish every thing to be as much to your taste
3as possible." "That I am sure you would. Indeed I do you justice, my good friend. Under that peculiar sort of dry, blunt
4manner, I know you have the warmest heart. As I tell Mr. E., you are a thorough humourist.--Yes, believe me, Knightley,
5I am fully sensible of your attention to me in the whole of this scheme. You have hit upon the very thing to please me."
6Mr. Knightley had another reason for avoiding a table in the shade. He wished to persuade Mr. Woodhouse, as well as
7Emma, to join the party; and he knew that to have any of them sitting down out of doors to eat would inevitably make him
8ill. Mr. Woodhouse must not, under the specious pretence of a morning drive, and an hour or two spent at Donwell, be
9tempted away to his misery. He was invited on good faith. No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity.
10He did consent. He had not been at Donwell for two years. "Some very fine morning, he, and Emma, and Harriet, could go
11very well; and he could sit still with Mrs. Weston, while the dear girls walked about the gardens. He did not suppose
12they could be damp now, in the middle of the day. He should like to see the old house again exceedingly, and should be
13very happy to meet Mr. and Mrs. Elton, and any other of his neighbours.--He could not see any objection at all to his,
14and Emma's, and Harriet's going there some very fine morning. He thought it very well done of Mr. Knightley to invite
15them--very kind and sensible--much cleverer than dining out.--He was not fond of dining out." Mr. Knightley was
16fortunate in every body's most ready concurrence. The invitation was everywhere so well received, that it seemed as if,
17like Mrs. Elton, they were all taking the scheme as a particular compliment to themselves.--Emma and Harriet professed
18very high expectations of pleasure from it; and Mr. Weston, unasked, promised to get Frank over to join them, if
19possible; a proof of approbation and gratitude which could have been dispensed with.--Mr. Knightley was then obliged to
20say that he should be glad to see him; and Mr. Weston engaged to lose no time in writing, and spare no arguments to
21induce him to come. In the meanwhile the lame horse recovered so fast, that the party to Box Hill was again under happy
22consideration; and at last Donwell was settled for one day, and Box Hill for the next,--the weather appearing exactly
23right. Under a bright mid-day sun, at almost Midsummer, Mr. Woodhouse was safely conveyed in his carriage, with one
24window down, to partake of this al-fresco party; and in one of the most comfortable rooms in the Abbey, especially
25prepared for him by a fire all the morning, he was happily placed, quite at his ease, ready to talk with pleasure of
26what had been achieved, and advise every body to come and sit down, and not to heat themselves.--Mrs. Weston, who seemed
27to have walked there on purpose to be tired, and sit all the time with him, remained, when all the others were invited
28or persuaded out, his patient listener and sympathiser. It was so long since Emma had been at the Abbey, that as soon as
29she was satisfied of her father's comfort, she was glad to leave him, and look around her; eager to refresh and correct
30her memory with more particular observation, more exact understanding of a house and grounds which must ever be so
31interesting to her and all her family. She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present
32and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable,
33becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered--its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream,
34of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight--and its abundance of timber in rows and
35avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up.--The house was larger than Hartfield, and totally unlike
36it, covering a good deal of ground, rambling and irregular, with many comfortable, and one or two handsome rooms.--It
37was just what it ought to be, and it looked what it was--and Emma felt an increasing respect for it, as the residence of
38a family of such true gentility, untainted in blood and understanding.--Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but
39Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably. She had given them neither men, nor names, nor places, that could raise
40a blush. These were pleasant feelings, and she walked about and indulged them till it was necessary to do as the others
41did, and collect round the strawberry-beds.--The whole party were assembled, excepting Frank Churchill, who was expected
42every moment from Richmond; and Mrs. Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very
43ready to lead the way in gathering, accepting, or talking--strawberries, and only strawberries, could now be thought or
44spoken of.--"The best fruit in England--every body's favourite--always wholesome.--These the finest beds and finest
45sorts.--Delightful to gather for one's self--the only way of really enjoying them.--Morning decidedly the best
46time--never tired--every sort good--hautboy infinitely superior--no comparison--the others hardly eatable--hautboys very
47scarce--Chili preferred--white wood finest flavour of all--price of strawberries in London--abundance about
48Bristol--Maple Grove--cultivation--beds when to be renewed--gardeners thinking exactly different--no general
49rule--gardeners never to be put out of their way--delicious fruit--only too rich to be eaten much of--inferior to
50cherries--currants more refreshing--only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping--glaring sun--tired to
51death--could bear it no longer--must go and sit in the shade." Such, for half an hour, was the conversation--interrupted
52only once by Mrs. Weston, who came out, in her solicitude after her son-in-law, to inquire if he were come--and she was
53a little uneasy.--She had some fears of his horse. Seats tolerably in the shade were found; and now Emma was obliged to
54overhear what Mrs. Elton and Jane Fairfax were talking of.--A situation, a most desirable situation, was in question.
55Mrs. Elton had received notice of it that morning, and was in raptures. It was not with Mrs. Suckling, it was not with
56Mrs. Bragge, but in felicity and splendour it fell short only of them: it was with a cousin of Mrs. Bragge, an
57acquaintance of Mrs. Suckling, a lady known at Maple Grove. Delightful, charming, superior, first circles, spheres,
58lines, ranks, every thing--and Mrs. Elton was wild to have the offer closed with immediately.--On her side, all was
59warmth, energy, and triumph--and she positively refused to take her friend's negative, though Miss Fairfax continued to
60assure her that she would not at present engage in any thing, repeating the same motives which she had been heard to
61urge before.--Still Mrs. Elton insisted on being authorised to write an acquiescence by the morrow's post.--How Jane
62could bear it at all, was astonishing to Emma.--She did look vexed, she did speak pointedly--and at last, with a
63decision of action unusual to her, proposed a removal.--"Should not they walk? Would not Mr. Knightley shew them the
64gardens--all the gardens?--She wished to see the whole extent."--The pertinacity of her friend seemed more than she
65could bear. It was hot; and after walking some time over the gardens in a scattered, dispersed way, scarcely any three
66together, they insensibly followed one another to the delicious shade of a broad short avenue of limes, which stretching
67beyond the garden at an equal distance from the river, seemed the finish of the pleasure grounds.--It led to nothing;
68nothing but a view at the end over a low stone wall with high pillars, which seemed intended, in their erection, to give
69the appearance of an approach to the house, which never had been there. Disputable, however, as might be the taste of
70such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty.--The considerable
71slope, at nearly the foot of which the Abbey stood, gradually acquired a steeper form beyond its grounds; and at half a
72mile distant was a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood;--and at the bottom of this
73bank, favourably placed and sheltered, rose the Abbey Mill Farm, with meadows in front, and the river making a close and
74handsome curve around it.
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