"I am sorry I am not to have the pleasureof your company — especially as it makes menervous to be much alone."

Emma was the first of the females in theparlour ^{on entering it}again; ^ she found her brother therealone. — "So Emma, said he, you are quitethe Stranger at home. It must seem odd enoughto you to be here. – A pretty peice of work yourAunt Turner has made of it! – By Heaven!a woman should never be trusted with money.I always ^saidth^ought she ought to have settledsomething on you, ^{as soon as her Husband died."}when sh^e took you away. " "But that would have been trusting me withmoney, replied Emma smiling, & I am a wo::man too. —" "It might have been ^placed secured toyour¹after future use, in Trust, without yourhaving any power over it now. – What a blowit must have been upon you! — To find yourself,instead of ^probablebe^ingHeireſs of 8 or 9000£, sent backa weight upon your family, without a six::pence. – I hope the old woman will smart for it." "^"DoI beg yo^u not to speak disrespectfully of ^{her –}myAunt, Brother. She was very good to me.; —&² Ifshe has made an imprudent choice, she willsuffer more from it herself, than I can poſsibly do."