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Emma

CHAPTERXVIII
18/18

"I can never think of it without laughing .-- She hears us, she hears us, Miss Woodhouse.

I see it in her cheek, her smile, her vain attempt to frown.

Look at her.

Do not you see that, at this instant, the very passage of her own letter, which sent me the report, is passing under her eye--that the whole blunder is spread before her--that she can attend to nothing else, though pretending to listen to the others ?" Jane was forced to smile completely, for a moment; and the smile partly remained as she turned towards him, and said in a conscious, low, yet steady voice, "How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!--They _will_ sometimes obtrude--but how you can court them!" He had a great deal to say in return, and very entertainingly; but Emma's feelings were chiefly with Jane, in the argument; and on leaving Randalls, and falling naturally into a comparison of the two men, she felt, that pleased as she had been to see Frank Churchill, and really regarding him as she did with friendship, she had never been more sensible of Mr.Knightley's high superiority of character.

The happiness of this most happy day, received its completion, in the animated contemplation of his worth which this comparison produced..


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