expected joys of the Evening, she felt a littleuncomfortable in the ^thoughtid^ea of all that was^tof^o precede them. Her conversation withEliz.Elizabeth^toohad givening¹ her ^{some very}many unpleasant² feel:=lings,  ^{with respect to her own family; &had3}to add to the awkwardneſs of so^{made her more open to otheranydisagreable im:}slight an acquaintance to the consciousneſs ^{from any other cause, & in particular to}of: preſsions, the awkwardneſs^ ^{rushing into Intimacy on}_{& encreased her sense of the awkwardneſs⁴} of^ so slight an ac::quaintance.⁵seemed a serious Evil. ––– There wasnothing in the manners of M^rs . or Miſs Edwardesto give immediate ^changediſsip^ation to these Ideas; theMother^tho'thoughw^as a very friendly woman, ^{had a reserved}but of rather^{air, & a great}formal aspect, & deal of formal Civility — & thedaughter, ^ath^e genteel looking girl,^^{of 22} with her hairin papers, seemed ^veryas was naturally⁶ to have caughtsomething of the Stile of the Mother who had broughther up. –  ^EmmaS^he was soon left to know what theycould be, by Eliz.'sElizabeth's being obliged to hurry away –& some very, very languid remarks on the pro::bable Brilliancy of the Ball, were all that broke at intervals a silence of half an hourbefore they were joined by the Master of thehouse. — M^r . Edwards had a much easier, ^&morecommunicative air than the Ladies of the Family;he was fresh from the Street, & he ^cameen^tered ready