A little Company, & a pleasant Ball now &then, would be enough for me, if one couldbe young for ever, but my Father cannotprovide for us, & it is very bad to grow old& be poor & laughed at. —^{I have lost}Penelope is nowPurvis, ^{it is true} but very few people marry their firstLoves. I should not refuse a man because hewas not Purvis —. Not that I can ever quiteforgive Penelope. —" Emma shook her headin acquiescence. —"Penelope however has hadher Troubles — continued Miſs W.Watson — she wassadly disappointed in Tom Musgrave, whoafterwards transferred his attentions from meto her, & whom she was very fond of; –buthe ^{never means anything}meant nothing serious, & when he hadtrifled with her long enough, he began to^{slight her for}take no^tice of Margaret, & poor Penelopewas very wretched —. And since then, shehas been trying to make some match at^Chichester.Southampton; she wont tell us with whom,but I beleive it is a rich old D^r . Harding,Uncle to the friend she goes to see; — & shehas ^{taken a vast}h^ad a monstrous deal of troubl^e^{about him} & givenup a great deal of Time to no purposeas yet. —.