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1"Yes, our good Mrs. Elton. The most indefatigable, true friend. She would not take a denial. She would not let Jane say,
2'No;' for when Jane first heard of it, (it was the day before yesterday, the very morning we were at Donwell,) when Jane
3first heard of it, she was quite decided against accepting the offer, and for the reasons you mention; exactly as you
4say, she had made up her mind to close with nothing till Colonel Campbell's return, and nothing should induce her to
5enter into any engagement at present--and so she told Mrs. Elton over and over again--and I am sure I had no more idea
6that she would change her mind!--but that good Mrs. Elton, whose judgment never fails her, saw farther than I did. It is
7not every body that would have stood out in such a kind way as she did, and refuse to take Jane's answer; but she
8positively declared she would not write any such denial yesterday, as Jane wished her; she would wait--and, sure enough,
9yesterday evening it was all settled that Jane should go. Quite a surprize to me! I had not the least idea!--Jane took
10Mrs. Elton aside, and told her at once, that upon thinking over the advantages of Mrs. Smallridge's situation, she had
11come to the resolution of accepting it.--I did not know a word of it till it was all settled." "You spent the evening
12with Mrs. Elton?" "Yes, all of us; Mrs. Elton would have us come. It was settled so, upon the hill, while we were
13walking about with Mr. Knightley. 'You must all spend your evening with us,' said she--'I positively must have you all
14come.'" "Mr. Knightley was there too, was he?" "No, not Mr. Knightley; he declined it from the first; and though I
15thought he would come, because Mrs. Elton declared she would not let him off, he did not;--but my mother, and Jane, and
16I, were all there, and a very agreeable evening we had. Such kind friends, you know, Miss Woodhouse, one must always
17find agreeable, though every body seemed rather fagged after the morning's party. Even pleasure, you know, is
18fatiguing--and I cannot say that any of them seemed very much to have enjoyed it. However, I shall always think it a
19very pleasant party, and feel extremely obliged to the kind friends who included me in it." "Miss Fairfax, I suppose,
20though you were not aware of it, had been making up her mind the whole day?" "I dare say she had." "Whenever the time
21may come, it must be unwelcome to her and all her friends--but I hope her engagement will have every alleviation that is
22possible--I mean, as to the character and manners of the family." "Thank you, dear Miss Woodhouse. Yes, indeed, there is
23every thing in the world that can make her happy in it. Except the Sucklings and Bragges, there is not such another
24nursery establishment, so liberal and elegant, in all Mrs. Elton's acquaintance. Mrs. Smallridge, a most delightful
25woman!--A style of living almost equal to Maple Grove--and as to the children, except the little Sucklings and little
26Bragges, there are not such elegant sweet children anywhere. Jane will be treated with such regard and kindness!--It
27will be nothing but pleasure, a life of pleasure.--And her salary!--I really cannot venture to name her salary to you,
28Miss Woodhouse. Even you, used as you are to great sums, would hardly believe that so much could be given to a young
29person like Jane." "Ah! madam," cried Emma, "if other children are at all like what I remember to have been myself, I
30should think five times the amount of what I have ever yet heard named as a salary on such occasions, dearly earned."
31"You are so noble in your ideas!" "And when is Miss Fairfax to leave you?" "Very soon, very soon, indeed; that's the
32worst of it. Within a fortnight. Mrs. Smallridge is in a great hurry. My poor mother does not know how to bear it. So
33then, I try to put it out of her thoughts, and say, Come ma'am, do not let us think about it any more." "Her friends
34must all be sorry to lose her; and will not Colonel and Mrs. Campbell be sorry to find that she has engaged herself
35before their return?" "Yes; Jane says she is sure they will; but yet, this is such a situation as she cannot feel
36herself justified in declining. I was so astonished when she first told me what she had been saying to Mrs. Elton, and
37when Mrs. Elton at the same moment came congratulating me upon it! It was before tea--stay--no, it could not be before
38tea, because we were just going to cards--and yet it was before tea, because I remember thinking--Oh! no, now I
39recollect, now I have it; something happened before tea, but not that. Mr. Elton was called out of the room before tea,
40old John Abdy's son wanted to speak with him. Poor old John, I have a great regard for him; he was clerk to my poor
41father twenty-seven years; and now, poor old man, he is bed-ridden, and very poorly with the rheumatic gout in his
42joints--I must go and see him to-day; and so will Jane, I am sure, if she gets out at all. And poor John's son came to
43talk to Mr. Elton about relief from the parish; he is very well to do himself, you know, being head man at the Crown,
44ostler, and every thing of that sort, but still he cannot keep his father without some help; and so, when Mr. Elton came
45back, he told us what John ostler had been telling him, and then it came out about the chaise having been sent to
46Randalls to take Mr. Frank Churchill to Richmond. That was what happened before tea. It was after tea that Jane spoke to
47Mrs. Elton." Miss Bates would hardly give Emma time to say how perfectly new this circumstance was to her; but as
48without supposing it possible that she could be ignorant of any of the particulars of Mr. Frank Churchill's going, she
49proceeded to give them all, it was of no consequence. What Mr. Elton had learned from the ostler on the subject, being
50the accumulation of the ostler's own knowledge, and the knowledge of the servants at Randalls, was, that a messenger had
51come over from Richmond soon after the return of the party from Box Hill--which messenger, however, had been no more
52than was expected; and that Mr. Churchill had sent his nephew a few lines, containing, upon the whole, a tolerable
53account of Mrs. Churchill, and only wishing him not to delay coming back beyond the next morning early; but that Mr.
54Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold,
55Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going
56a good pace, and driving very steady. There was nothing in all this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma's
57attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind. The contrast between Mrs. Churchill's
58importance in the world, and Jane Fairfax's, struck her; one was every thing, the other nothing--and she sat musing on
59the difference of woman's destiny, and quite unconscious on what her eyes were fixed, till roused by Miss Bates's
60saying, "Aye, I see what you are thinking of, the pianoforte. What is to become of that?--Very true. Poor dear Jane was
61talking of it just now.--'You must go,' said she. 'You and I must part. You will have no business here.--Let it stay,
62however,' said she; 'give it houseroom till Colonel Campbell comes back. I shall talk about it to him; he will settle
63for me; he will help me out of all my difficulties.'--And to this day, I do believe, she knows not whether it was his
64present or his daughter's." Now Emma was obliged to think of the pianoforte; and the remembrance of all her former
65fanciful and unfair conjectures was so little pleasing, that she soon allowed herself to believe her visit had been long
66enough; and, with a repetition of every thing that she could venture to say of the good wishes which she really felt,
67took leave.
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