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Emma
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first interval in the cares of hospitality, the very first leisure
from the saddle of mutton, to say to her,
`We want only two more to be just the right number. I
should like to see two more here,--your pretty little
friend, Miss Smith, and my son--and then I should say we
were quite complete. I believe you did not hear me telling
the others in the drawing-room that we are expecting
Frank. I had a letter from him this morning, and he will be
with us within a fortnight.'
Emma spoke with a very proper degree of pleasure; and
fully assented to his proposition of Mr. Frank Churchill
and Miss Smith making their party quite complete.
`He has been wanting to come to us,' continued Mr.
Weston, `ever since September: every letter has been full
of it; but he cannot command his own time. He has those
to please who must be pleased, and who (between
ourselves) are sometimes to be pleased only by a good
many sacrifices. But now I have no doubt of seeing him
here about the second week in January.'
`What a very great pleasure it will be to you! and Mrs.
Weston is so anxious to be acquainted with him, that she
must be almost as happy as yourself.'
`Yes, she would be, but that she thinks there will be
another put-off. She does not depend upon his coming so
Summary :
I had a letter from him this morning, and he will be with us within a fortnight.' Emma spoke with a very proper degree of pleasure; He has those to please who must be pleased, and who (between ourselves) are sometimes to be pleased only by a good many sacrifices.
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