At the Ball (1815) [ Practices ]
… dinner, and everything was safe. No second meeting had there yet been between him and Emma. The room at the Crown was to witness it; but it would be better than a common meeting in a crowd. Mr. Weston had been so very earnest in his … he meant to have a delightful evening. They all walked about together, to see that everything was as it should be and within a few minutes were joined by the contents of another carriage, which Emma could not hear the sound of at first without great surprise. “So unreasonably early! ” she was going to exclaim ; but she presently found that it was a family …
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