easy, voluble friend, he muttered somethingof doing himself the honour of waiting onM^r . 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 beconsider fully sensible of all that must be opento the ridicule of Richer people in her presenthome. —^OfFr^om the pain of such feelings, Eliz:Elizabeth^{knew 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 Conven^ience than of Shame.^Shame.–––M^r . Watson, as ^{the Gentlemen} t^hey 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 M^r . Musgrave in highspirits at his own importance, on the otherside of the fireplace with Eliz^th ..Elizabeth — He was at noloſs for words; — but when Ld.Lord Osborne had hopedthat Emma had ^{not caught} ta^ken no cold at the Ball,