The note, which Emma was beginning to readrather before M^rs .. Edwards had entreated her^{to use no} not to stan^d on any ceremony, contained a fewlines from Eliz:Elizabeth importing that their Fatherin consequence of being unusually well had takenthe sudden resolution of attending the visitationthat day, & that as ^{his Road lay quite awide2 from} he had th^erefore tak¹ different ^R. wa^y, it was impoſsible for her to ^come be ^fetched hometill the following morn^g .morning, unleſs the Edwardses w^d .would send her which was hardly to be expected, orshe c^d .could meet with any chance conveyance, ordid not mind walking so far. — She had scarcelyrun her eye thro’through the whole, before she found her::self obliged to listen to Tom Musgrave’s fartheraccount. "I received that note from the fairhands of Miſs Watson only ten minutes ago,said he —I met her in the village of Stanton, whither my good Stars prompted me to turn my Horses heads — she was ^{at that moment}^in quest of aperson to employ on the ^Errand Em^baſsy, & I wasfortunate enough to convince her that she could not find a more willing or speedy Meſsenger than myself —. Remember, I saynothing of my Disinterestedneſs. — My reward