He was on foot, and after looking very respectfully at her, looked with most unfeigned satisfaction at her companion.

Emma was not sorry to have such an opportunity of survey; and walking a few yards forward, while they talked together, soon made her quick eye sufficiently acquainted with Mr.Robert Martin.

His appearance was very neat, and he looked like a sensible young man, but his person had no other advantage; and when he came to be contrasted with gentlemen, she thought he must lose all the ground he had gained in Harriet's inclination.

Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father's gentleness with admiration as well as wonder.

Mr.
Martin looked as if he did not know what manner was.
They remained but a few minutes together, as Miss Woodhouse must not be kept waiting; and Harriet then came running to her with a smiling face, and in a flutter of spirits, which Miss Woodhouse hoped very soon to compose.
"Only think of our happening to meet him!--How very odd! It was quite a chance, he said, that he had not gone round by Randalls.