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easy, voluble friend, he muttered
somethingof doing himself the honour of waiting onMr .
Watson. — Tho’Though Emma could not but takethe compliment of the visit to herself, she wasvery far from enjoying it. She felt all theinconsistency of such an
acquaintance withthe very humble stile in
which they wereobliged to live; & having In her Aunt’s family she hadbeen used to many of the Elegancies of Life, was & she could not without some mortification she had not quite philosophy enough to be consider fully sensible of all that must be opento the ridicule of Richer people in her presenthome. —Of From the pain of such feelings, Eliz:Elizabethknew very was free little; – her simpler Mind, or
justerreason saved her from such mortification — & tho’though shrinking under a general sense & she wished them away, more from a Sense of Inferiority,she felt no peculiar
particular of Convenience than of Shame. Shame.–––Mr . Watson, as the Gentlemen they had already heard fromNanny, was not well enough to be downstairs; – the gentlemen , wWith1 much concern they took their seats — Ld. Lord Osborne near Emma,& the convenient Mr . Musgrave
in highspirits at his own importance, on the otherside of the fireplace with Elizth ..Elizabeth — He was at noloſs for words; — but when Ld.Lord Osborne had hopedthat Emma had not caught taken no cold at the Ball,
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