Mrs.Smallridge, a most delightful woman!--A style of living almost equal to Maple Grove--and as to the children, except the little Sucklings and little Bragges, there are not such elegant sweet children anywhere.

Jane will be treated with such regard and kindness!--It will be nothing but pleasure, a life of pleasure .-- And her salary!--I really cannot venture to name her salary to you, Miss Woodhouse.

Even you, used as you are to great sums, would hardly believe that so much could be given to a young person like Jane." "Ah! madam," cried Emma, "if other children are at all like what I remember to have been myself, I should think five times the amount of what I have ever yet heard named as a salary on such occasions, dearly earned." "You are so noble in your ideas!" "And when is Miss Fairfax to leave you ?" "Very soon, very soon, indeed; that's the worst of it.

Within a fortnight.

Mrs.Smallridge is in a great hurry.