She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have been thankful to be assured of never seeing him again.

She wished him very well; but he gave her pain, and his welfare twenty miles off would administer most satisfaction.
The pain of his continued residence in Highbury, however, must certainly be lessened by his marriage.

Many vain solicitudes would be prevented--many awkwardnesses smoothed by it.

A _Mrs._ _Elton_ would be an excuse for any change of intercourse; former intimacy might sink without remark.

It would be almost beginning their life of civility again.
Of the lady, individually, Emma thought very little.