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me with your raillery. – You know what in=:ducements I had to bring me home Spare me, I entreat you —.but. I amno match for your arch sallies. –" "Well, I onlybeg you will not set your Neighbours againstthe place. – Perhaps Emma may be tempted to goback with us, & stay till Christmas, if you don’tput in your word." — Emma was greatly obliged.

"I aſsure you we have very good society atCroydon. – I do not much attend the Balls, theyare rather too mixed, – but our parties are very se==lect &1 good. – I had sevennineTables last week in mytwoDrawingroom. — Are you fond of the Country?How do you like Stanton? —" "Very much" — re::plied Emma, who thought a comprehensiveanswer, most to the purpose. – She saw thather Sister in law despised her immediately. – Mrs .R.RobertW.Watson wasindeed wondering what sort of a home Emmaplace shecd .could poſsibly have been used to in Shropshire, & setting it downas certain that the Aunt could never have hadsix thousand pounds. — "How charming Emmais! –" whispered Margt .Margaret to Mrs . Robert in her mostlanguishing tone. — Emma was quite distreſs’ddistressedby such behaviour; – & she did not like it better5 minutes afterwards when she heard Margt .Margaret 5 minutes afterwards sayon overhearing Margt .Margaret saying to Eliz:Elizabeth in a sharpquick accenttone, totally unlike the first —"Have you

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