Witness this very time.

Here am I come down for only one day, and you are engaged with a dinner-party!--When did it happen before, or any thing like it?
Your neighbourhood is increasing, and you mix more with it.

A little while ago, every letter to Isabella brought an account of fresh gaieties; dinners at Mr.Cole's, or balls at the Crown.

The difference which Randalls, Randalls alone makes in your goings-on, is very great." "Yes," said his brother quickly, "it is Randalls that does it all." "Very well--and as Randalls, I suppose, is not likely to have less influence than heretofore, it strikes me as a possible thing, Emma, that Henry and John may be sometimes in the way.

And if they are, I only beg you to send them home." "No," cried Mr.Knightley, "that need not be the consequence.