At the Ball (1815) [ Practices ]
… interval in the young man's company. She was to convey Harriet, and they drove to the Crown in good time, the Randalls party just sufficiently before them. Frank Churchill seemed to have been on the watch; and though he did not say much, his … was going to exclaim ; but she presently found that it was a family of old friends, who were coming, like herself, by particular desire, to help Mr. Weston's judgment ; and they were so very closely followed by another carriage of cousins, … was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity. She liked his open manners, but a little less of open heartedness would have made him a higher character. —General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he …
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