"We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.

Every friend of Miss Taylor must be glad to have her so happily married." "And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me," said Emma, "and a very considerable one--that I made the match myself.

I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said Mr.Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for any thing." Mr.Knightley shook his head at her.

Her father fondly replied, "Ah! my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass.

Pray do not make any more matches." "I promise you to make none for myself, papa; but I must, indeed, for other people.