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volume 1 chapter 6 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 6. emma could not feel a doubt of having given harriet's fancy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of mr elton's being a remarkably handsome man with most agreeable manners and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admiration by agreeable hints she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on harriet's side as there could be any occasion for she was quite convinced of mr elton's being in the fairest way of falling in love if not in love already she had no scruple with regard to him he talked of harriet and praised her so warmly that she could not suppose anything wanting which a little time would not add his perception of the striking improvement of harriet's manor since her introduction at hartfield who's not one of the least agreeable proofs of his growing attachment you have given ms smith all that she required said he you have made her graceful and easy she was a beautiful creature when she came to you but in my opinion the attractions you have added are infinitely superior to what she received from nature i am glad you think i have been useful to her but harriet only wanted drawing out and receiving a few very few hints she had all the natural grace of sweetness of temper and artlessness in herself i have done very little if it were admissible to contradict the lady said the gallant mr elton i have perhaps given her a little more decision of character have taught her to think on points which had not fallen in her way before exactly so that is what principally strikes me so much super added decision of character skillful has been the hand great has been the pleasure i am sure i never met with a disposition more truly amiable i have no doubt of it and it was spoken with a sort of sighing animation which had a vast deal of the lover she was not less pleased another day with the manner in which he seconded a sudden wish of hers to have harriet's picture did you ever have your likeness taken harriet said she did you ever sit for your picture harriet was on the point of leaving the room and only stopped to say with a very interesting naivete oh dear no never no sooner was she out of sight than emma exclaimed what an exquisite possession a good picture of her would be i would give any money for it i almost longed to attempt to likeness myself you do not know it i dare say but two or three years ago i had a great passion for taking likenesses and attempted several of my friends and was thought to have a tolerable eye in general but from one cause or another i gave it up and discussed but really i could almost venture if harriet would sit to me it would be such a delight to have her picture let me entreat you cried mr elton it would indeed be a delight let me entreat you miss woodhouse to exercise so charming a talent in favor of your friend i know what your drawings are how could you suppose me ignorant is not this room rich in specimen of your landscapes and flowers and has not missed western some inimitable figure pieces in her drawing room at randall's yes good man thought emma but what has all that to do with taking likenesses you know nothing of drawing don't pretend to be in raptures about mine keep your raptures for harriet's face well if you give me such kind encouragement mr elton i believe i shall try what i can do harriet's features are very delicate which makes a likeness difficult and yet there is a peculiarity in the shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth which one ought to catch exactly so the shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth i have no doubt of your success pray pray attempt it as you will do it it will indeed to use your own words be an exquisite...

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volume 1 chapter 10 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 10 though now the middle of december there had yet to be no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise and on the morrow emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family who lived a little way out of highbury their road to this detached cottage was down vicarage lane a lane leading at right angles from the broad though irregular main street of the place and as may be inferred containing the blessed abode of mr elton a few inferior dwellings were first to be passed and then about a quarter of a mile down the lane rose the vicarage an old and not very good house almost as close to the road as it could be it had no advantage of situation but had been very much smartened up by the present proprietor and such as it was there could be no possibility of the two friends passing it without a slackened pace and observing eyes emma's remark was there it is there go you and your riddle book one of these days harry it was oh what a sweet house how they're beautiful they're the yellow curtains that miss nash admire so much i do not often walk this way now said emma as they proceeded but then there will be an inducement and i shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges gates pools and pallets of this part of highbury harriet she found had never in her life been within side the vicarage and her curiosity to see it was so extreme that considering exteriors and probabilities emma could only class it as a proof of love with mr elton's seeing ready wit in her i wish we could contrive it said she but i cannot think of any tolerable pretense for going in no servant that i want to inquire about this housekeeper no message from my father she pondered but could think of nothing after a mutual silence of some minutes harriet thus began again i do so wonder miss woodhouse that you should not be married or going to be married so charming as you are emma laughed and replied my being charming harriet is not quite enough to induce me to marry i must find other people charming one other person at least and i am not only not going to be married at present but have very little intention of ever marrying at all ah so you say i cannot believe it i must see somebody very superior to anyone i have seen yet to be tempted mr elton you know recollecting herself is out of the question and i do not wish to see any such person i would rather not be tempted i cannot really change for the better if i were to marry i must expect to repent it dear me it is so odd to hear a woman talk so i have none of the usual inducements of women to marry were i to fall in love indeed it would be a different thing but i never have been in love it is not my way or my nature and i do not think i ever shall and without love i am sure i should be a fool to change such a situation as mine fortune i do not want employment i do not want consequence i do not want i believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband's house as i am of heartfield and never never could i expect to be so truly beloved and important so always first and always right in any man's eyes as i am in my father's but then to be an old maid at last like miss bates that is as formidable an image as you could present harriet and if i thought i should ever be like miss bates so silly so satisfied so smiling so prosing so undistinguishing and unfastidious and so apt to tell everything relative to everybody about me i would marry tomorrow but between us i am convinced there never can be any likeness except in being unmarried but still you would be an older mate and that's so dreadful never mind harriet i shall not be a poor old maid and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public a single woman with a very narrow income must be a...

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bollywood capture 5 of emma van jane austen misslipgloss recording is in the public domain bollywood chapter five het u nog wat your opinion mee mrs weston zei mr knightley of de scheurt interesse v-twin emma en harriet smith verrassingen de badring apart ding die leaving keten piping of ik wil naar de afdoende werelden en ago nieuwe super al eens mee en mijn master harriet cold and by supplying hou het een nieuw object of interest harriet medicijn te duwen en de god die het en singa intimacy moeten great pleasure favoriete punt leeuw i feel no stinkt able to each other and i could this will certainly be the beginning of wanneer alle korrels about emma mr knightley [ __ ] you think i'm kom op was de korrel video nooit was toen twee uit dat je was stil fargo een bottle mr weston would undoubtedly support mee if you will share volg je team six heures claires site u jongens object wie we speak english only yesterday en de green half uurtje net het was voor anna de pers should be such a goal in highbury behoud recensieweb mr knightley die charlotte nou de youtube-app edgar jean is kees die was zo macho stille belang dat youtube not know de balie wat de campagne en de had snowman tobago de charge op de complete room and feels and society of mannen verwend sites of de been used to it only live item imagine your objections harriet smith chaise noten superia young woman with en een spannend op 2 bad wanneer de hand asml bonst seh badger in vormt het wiel bmw's mijn twee huizen rietmolen he zelf degree together she means a time he has been minuten read more and we think you with 12 years old machine groot mijn lessen van droging dorp of various times of boksstad chimento reed regularly vrouw en hercules know where very well kruisen en harry niet leren reinigt sometimes even babbelen en sultans baisemeaux de de lucy droog en onder 14 arnhem en bezinking idee van george mijn zomers credit de dat preserve dit some time en naar daar zeg je mijn mij dat je werkboek les naar van ah doen we experts in and the course of study waiting for member she will never met de anything requiring industrie en pergens met de sovjets en op defensie te die en de staan denk wat mist verder veel te stimuleren msf liam dat harriet smith wilde loving you never kopjes water te riet hazel moet je gewicht you know you could not a death and we'd like mrs weston smiling bed ipods en pijn but since we're approaching tai chi never remembers en meetings you and i in ayp licht verzamelen en in designing te refreshen memories baas zei mr knightley feeling nee een hormoon mythologie he dan waai kizuna dit johannes er controle over mijn sense is was stil zie hier een remember and inspired wij bieden clever is de familie met en je zult je hadden misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzel gisteren 17 geef me zo with quick kinderhuwelijk ze bellen slogan dividend het efficiënt show with 12 en mijn swing meest recente huis en die rol in haar moeder je last die ander plus enable te koop het er geen heb het zwembad is talent en masturberende selection te huilen alstjeblieft pin sorry mr knightley te bieden punt en tonio recommendation paddock widget mr woodhouse's is familie en won tweede naar de situatie hij dunant enqueue we heb spook in een groot word gemeten wide-body i'm sure you go weegee spoot milan fitch voor die halve zij geld yes cg smiling you're better place hier werden fit for life vanaf het al vorige van dus wat uw preparing yourself de vn axel advice over het abiword hartfield je mag nooit geef m een setje compleet education als je oude switching the promise you will receive and very good education van haar van de veryme theorielessen monial point of soort met ingo al wil mijn doel industrie overbeek met de fles terras met recommend him a wife and shoots het lichaam te bestellen think you would be very little mary to make a good wife te thatcher man als...

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volume 1 chapter 9 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 9 mr knightley might quarrel with her but emma could not quarrel with herself he was so much displeased that it was longer than usual before he came to heartfield again and when they did meet his grave looks showed that she was not forgiven she was sorry but could not repent on the contrary her plans and proceedings were more and more justified and endeared to her by the general appearances of the next few days the picture elegantly framed came safely to hand soon after mr elton's return and being hung over the mantelpiece of the common sitting room he got up to look at it and side out his half sentences of admiration just as he ought and as for harriet's feelings they were visibly forming themselves into as strong and steady an attachment as her youth and sort of mind admitted emma was soon perfectly satisfied of mr martin's being no otherwise remembered then as he furnished a contrast with mr elton of the utmost advantage to the latter her views of improving her little friend's mind by a great deal of useful reading and conversation had never yet led to more than a few first chapters and the intention of going on tomorrow it was much easier to chat than to study much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at harriet's fortune than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts and the only literary pursuit which engaged harriet at present the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with into a thin quarto of hot pressed paper made up by her friend and ornamented with ciphers and trophies in this age of literature such collections on a very grand scale are not uncommon miss nash head teacher at mrs goddard had written out at least 300 and harriet who had taken the first hint of it from her hoped with miss woodhouse's help to get a great many more emma assisted with her invention memory and taste and as harriet wrote a very pretty hand it was likely to be an arrangement of the first order in form as well as quantity mr woodhouse was almost as much interested in the business as the girls and tried very often to recollect something worth their putting in so many clever riddles as there used to be when he was young he wondered he could not remember them but he hoped he should in time and it always ended in kitty a fair but frozen maid his good friend perry too whom he had spoken to on the subject did not at present recollect anything of the riddle kind but he had desired perry to be upon the watch and as he went about so much something he thought might come from that quarter it was by no means his daughter's wish that the intellects of highbury in general should be put under requisition mr elton was the only one whose assistance she asked he was invited to contribute any really good enigmas sharads or conundrums that he might recollect and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recollections and at the same time as she could perceive most earnestly careful but nothing ungallant nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips they owed to him their two or three politest puzzles and the joy and exaltation with which at last he recalled and rather sentimentally recited that well-known charade my first doth affliction denote which my second is destined to feel and my whole is the best antidote that affliction to soften and heal made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already why will not you write one yourself for us mr elton said she that is the only security for its freshness and nothing could be easier to you oh no he had never written hardly ever anything of the kind in his life the stupidest...

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volume 1 chapter 17 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 17. mr and mrs john knightley were not detained long at heartfield the weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move and mr woodhouse having as usual tried to persuade his daughter to stay behind with all her children was obliged to see the whole party set off and return to his lamentations over the destiny of poor isabella which poor isabella passing her life with those she doted on full of their merits blind to their faults and always innocently busy might have been a model of right feminine happiness the evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from mr elton to mr woodhouse a long civil ceremonious note to say with mr elton's best compliments that he was proposing to leave highbry the following morning in his way to bath where in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends he had engaged to spend a few weeks and very much regretted the impossibility he was under from various circumstances of weather and business of taking a personal leave of mr woodhouse of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had mr woodhouse any commands should be happy to attend to them emma was most agreeably surprised mr elton's absence just at this time was the very thing to be desired she admired him for contriving it though not able to give him much credit for the manner in which it was announced resentment could not have been more plainly spoken than in a civility to her father from which she was so pointedly excluded she had not even a share in his opening compliments her name was not mentioned and there was so striking a change in all this and such an ill-judged solemnity of leave-taking in his graceful acknowledgements as she thought at first could not escape her father's suspicion it did however her father was quite taken up with the surprise of so sudden a journey and his fears that mr elton might never get safely to the end of it and saw nothing extraordinary in his language it was a very useful note fort supplied them with fresh matter for thought and conversation during the rest of their lonely evening mr woodhouse talked over his alarms and emma was in spirits to persuade them away with all her usual promptitude she now resolved to keep harriet no longer in the dark she had reason to believe her nearly recovered from her cold and it was desirable that she should have as much time as possible for getting the better of her other complaint before the gentleman's return she went to mrs goddard accordingly the very next day to undergo the necessary penance of communication and a severe one it was she had to destroy all the hopes which she had been so industriously feeding to appear in the ungracious character of the one preferred and acknowledge herself grossly mistaken and misjudging in all her ideas on one subject all her observations all her convictions all her prophecies for the last six weeks the confession completely renewed her first shame and the sight of harriet's tears made her think that she should never be in charity with herself again harriet bore the intelligence very well blaming nobody and in everything testifying such an ingenuousness of disposition and lowly opinion of herself as must appear with particular advantage at that moment to her friend emma was in the humor to value simplicity and modesty to the utmost and all that was amiable all that ought to be attaching seemed on harriet's side not her own harriet did not consider herself as having anything to complain of the affection of such a man as mr elton would have been too great a distinction she never could have deserved him and nobody but so partial and kind a friend as miss woodhouse would have thought it possible her tears fell abundantly but her grief was so truly artless that no dignity...

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volume 1 chapter 12 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 12 mr knightley was to dine with them rather against the inclination of mr woodhouse who did not like that anyone should share with him in isabella's first day emma's sense of right however had decided it and besides the consideration of what was due to each brother she had particular pleasure from the circumstance of the late disagreement between mr knightley and herself in procuring him the proper invitation she hoped they might now become friends again she thought it was time to make up making up indeed would not do she certainly had not been in the wrong and he would never own that he had concession must be out of the question but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarreled and she hoped it might rather assist the restoration of friendship that when he came into the room she had one of the children with her the youngest a nice little girl about eight months old who was now making her first visit to hartfield and very happy to be danced about in her aunt's arms it did assist for though he began with grave looks and short questions he was soon led on to talk of them all in the usual way and to take the child out of her arms with all the unceremoniousness of perfect amity emma felt they were friends again and the conviction giving her at first great satisfaction and then a little sauciness she could not help saying as he was admiring the baby what a comfort it is that we think alike about our nephews and nieces as to men and women our opinions are sometimes very different but with regard to these children i observe we never disagree if you were as much guided by nurture in your estimate of men and women and as little under the power of fancy and whim in your dealings with them as you are where these children are concerned we might always think alike to be sure our discordances must always arise from my being in the wrong yes said he smiling and reason good i was 16 years old when you were born a material difference then she replied and no doubt you were much my superior in judgment at that period of our lives but does not the lapse of 1 in 20 years bring our understandings a good deal nearer yes a good deal nearer but still not near enough to give me a chance of being right if we think differently i have still the advantage of you by 16 years experience and by not being a pretty young woman and a spoiled child come my dear emma let us be friends and say no more about it tell your aunt little emma that she ought to set you a better example than to be renewing old grievances and that if she were not wrong before she is now that's true she cried very true little emma grow up a better woman than your aunt be infinitely clever and not half so conceited now mr nightly a word or two more and i have done as far as good intentions went we were both right and i must say that no effects on my side of the argument have yet proved wrong i only want to know that mr martin is not very very bitterly disappointed a man cannot be more so was his short full answer ah indeed i am very sorry come shake hands with me this had just taken place and with great cordiality when john knightley made his appearance end how do you do george and john how are you succeeded in the true english style burying under a calmness that seemed all but indifference the real attachment which would have led either of them if requisite to do everything for the good of the other the evening was quiet and conversable as mr woodhouse declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear isabella and the little party made two natural divisions on one side he and his daughter on the other the two mr knightleys their subjects totally distinct or very rarely mixing and emma only occasionally joining in one or the other the brothers talked...

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volume 1 chapter 11 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 11. mr elton must now be left to himself it was no longer in emma's power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures the coming of her sister's family was so very near at hand that first in anticipation and then in reality it became henceforth her prime object of interest and during the ten days of their stay at hartfield it was not to be expected she did not herself expect that anything beyond occasional fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers they might advance rapidly if they would however they must advance somehow or other whether they would or no she hardly wished to have more leisure for them there are people who the more you do for them the less they will do for themselves mr and mrs john knightley from having been longer than usual absent from surrey were exciting of course rather more than the usual interest till this year every long vacation since their marriage had been divided between hartfield and donmel abbey but all the holidays of this autumn had been given to seabathing for the children and it was therefore many months since they had been seen in a regular way by their surrey connections or seen at all by mr woodhouse who could not be induced to get so far as london even for poor isabella's sake and who consequently was now most nervously and apprehensively happy in forestalling this too short visit he thought much of the evils of the journey for her and not a little of the fatigues of his own horses and coachmen who were to bring some of the party the last half of the way but his alarms were needless the 16 miles being happily accomplished and mr and mrs john knightley their five children and a competent number of nursery maids all reaching hartfield in safety the bustle and joy of such an arrival the many to be talked to welcomed encouraged and variously dispersed and disposed of produced a noise and confusion which his nerves could not have borne under any other cause nor have endured much longer even for this but the ways of hartfield and the feelings of her father were so respected by mrs john knightley that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance all the eating and drinking and sleeping and playing which they could possibly wish for without the smallest delay the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them mrs john knightley was a pretty elegant little woman of gentle quiet manners and a disposition remarkably amiable and affectionate wrapped up in her family a devoted wife a doting mother and so tenderly attached to her father and sister that but for these higher ties a warmer love might have seemed impossible she could never see a fault in any of them she was not a woman of strong understanding or any quickness and with this resemblance of her father she inherited all so much of his constitution was delicate in her own health over careful of that of her children had many fears and many nerves and was as fond of her own mr wingfield in town as her father could be of mr perry they were alike too in a general benevolence of temper and a strong habit of regard for every old acquaintance mr john knightley was a tall gentleman-like and very clever man rising in his profession domestic and respectable in his private character but with reserved manners which prevented his being generally pleasing and capable of being sometimes out of humor he was not an ill-tempered man not so often unreasonably cross as to deserve such a reproach but his temper was not his great perfection and indeed with such a worshiping wife it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased the extreme...

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volume 1 chapter 14 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 14. some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they walked into mrs weston's drawing room mr elton must compose his joyous looks and mr john knightley disperse his ill humor mr elton must smile less and mr joan knightley more to fit them for the place emma only might be as nature prompted and show herself just as happy as she was to her it was real enjoyment to be with the westerns mr weston was a great favorite and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserved as to his wife not anyone to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and understood of being always interesting and always intelligible the little affairs arrangements perplexities and pleasures of her father and herself she could tell nothing of hartfield in which mrs weston had not a lively concern and half an hour's uninterrupted communication of all those little matters on which the daily happiness of private life depends was one of the first gratifications of each was a pleasure which perhaps the whole day's visit might not afford which certainly did not belong to the present half-hour but to the very sight of mrs weston her smile her touch her voice was grateful to emma and she determined to think as little as possible of mr elton's oddities or of anything else unpleasant and enjoy all that was enjoyable to the utmost the misfortune of harriet's cold had been pretty well gone through before her arrival mr woodhouse had been safely seated long enough to give the history of it besides all the history of his own and isabella's coming and of emma's being to follow and had indeed just got to the end of his satisfaction that james should come and see his daughter when the others appeared and mrs weston who had been almost wholly engrossed by her attentions to him was able to turn away and welcome her dear emma emma's project of forgetting mr elton for a while made her rather sorry to find when they had all taken their places that he was close to her the difficulty was great of driving his strange insensibility towards harriet from her mind while he not only sat at her elbow but was continually obtruding his happy countenance on her notice and solicitously addressing her upon every occasion instead of forgetting him his behavior was such that she could not avoid the internal suggestion of can it really be as my brother imagined can it be possible for this man to be beginning to transfer his affections from harriet to me absurd and insufferable yet he would be so anxious for her being perfectly warm would be so interested about her father and so delighted with mrs weston and at last would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover and made it some effort with her to preserve her good manners for her own sake she could not be rude and for harriet's in the hope that all would yet turn out right she was even positively civil but it was an effort especially as something was going on amongst the others in the most overpowering period of mr elton's nonsense which she particularly wished to listen to she had heard enough to know that mr weston was giving some information about his son she heard the words my son and frank and my son repeated several times over and from a few other half syllables very much suspected that he was announcing an early visit from his son but before she could quiet mr elton the subject was so completely passed that any reviving question from her would have been awkward now it so happened that in spite of emma's resolution of never marrying there was something in the name in the idea of mr frank churchill which always interested her she had frequently thought especially since his father's marriage with miss...

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volume 1 chapter 13 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 13. there could hardly be a happier creature in the world than mrs john knightley in this short visit to hartfield going about every morning among her old acquaintance with her five children and talking over what she had done every evening with her father and sister she had nothing to wish otherwise but that the days did not pass so swiftly it was a delightful visit perfect in being much too short in general their evenings were less engaged with friends than their mornings but one complete dinner engagement and out of the house too there was no avoiding though at christmas mr weston would take no denial they must all dine at randall's one day even mr woodhouse was persuaded to think it a possible thing in preference to a division of the party how they were all to be conveyed he would have made a difficulty if he could but as his son and daughter's carriage and horses were actually at heartfield he was not able to make more than a simple question on that head it hardly amounted to a doubt nor did it occupy emma long to convince him that they might in one of the carriages find room for harriet also harriet mr elton and mr knightley their own a special set were the only persons invited to meet them the hours were to be early as well as the numbers few mr woodhouse's habits and inclination being consulted in everything the evening before this great event for it was a very great event that mr woodhouse should dine out on the 24th of december had been spent by harriet at hartfield and she had gone home so much indisposed with a cold that but for her own earnest wish of being nursed by mrs goddard emma could not have allowed her to leave the house emma called on her the next day and found her doom already signed with regard to randall's she was very feverish and had a bad sore throat mrs goddard was full of care and affection mr perry was talked off and harriet herself was too ill and low to resist the authority which excluded her from this delightful engagement though she could not speak of her loss without many tears emma sat with her as long as she could to attend her in mrs goddard's unavoidable absences and raise her spirits by representing how much mr elton's would be depressed when he knew her state and left her at last tolerably comfortable in the sweet dependence of his having a most comfortless visit and of their all missing her very much she had not advanced many yards from mrs goddard's door when she was met by mr elton himself evidently coming towards it and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid of whom he on the rumor of considerable illness had been going to inquire that he might carry some report of her to heartfield they were overtaken by mr john knightley returning from the daily visit to dawn well with his two eldest boys whose healthy glowing faces showed all the benefit of a country run and seemed to ensure a quick dispatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for they joined company and proceeded together emma was just describing the nature of her friend's complaint a throat very much inflamed with a great deal of heat about her a quick low pulse etc and she was sorry to find from mrs goddard that harriet was liable to very bad sore throats and had often alarmed her with them mr elton looked all alarm on the occasion as he exclaimed a sore throat i hope not infectious i hope not of the putrid infectious sort has perry cena indeed you should take care of yourself as well as of your friend let me entreat you to run no risks why does not perry see her emma who was not really at all frightened herself tranquilized this excess of apprehension by assurances of mrs goddard's experience and care but as there must still remain a degree of uneasiness which she...