You will like Harriet.

Emma could not have a better companion than Harriet." "I am most happy to hear it--but only Jane Fairfax one knows to be so very accomplished and superior!--and exactly Emma's age." This topic was discussed very happily, and others succeeded of similar moment, and passed away with similar harmony; but the evening did not close without a little return of agitation.

The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said--much praise and many comments--undoubting decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerable;--but, unfortunately, among the failures which the daughter had to instance, the most recent, and therefore most prominent, was in her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.

Often as she had wished for and ordered it, she had never been able to get any thing tolerable.

Here was a dangerous opening.
"Ah!" said Mr.Woodhouse, shaking his head and fixing his eyes on her with tender concern .-- The ejaculation in Emma's ear expressed, "Ah! there is no end of the sad consequences of your going to South End.