She has been so kind as to promise it.

Oh! the blessing of a female correspondent, when one is really interested in the absent!--she will tell me every thing.

In her letters I shall be at dear Highbury again." A very friendly shake of the hand, a very earnest "Good-bye," closed the speech, and the door had soon shut out Frank Churchill.

Short had been the notice--short their meeting; he was gone; and Emma felt so sorry to part, and foresaw so great a loss to their little society from his absence as to begin to be afraid of being too sorry, and feeling it too much.
It was a sad change.

They had been meeting almost every day since his arrival.