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Mr. Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea, and when he had drank his tea he was quite ready to go home, and it was as much as his three companions could do to entertain away his notice of the lateness of the hour before the other gentleman appeared. Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort. But at last the drawing room party did receive an augmentation.
Mr Elton, in very good spirits, was one of the first to walk in. Mrs Weston and Emma were sitting together on a sofa. He joined them immediately and, with scarcely an invitation, seated himself between them.
Emma, in good spirits too, from the amusement afforded her mind by the expectation of Mr. Frank Churchill, was willing to forget his late improprieties and be as well satisfied with him as before, and on his making Harriet his very first subject, was ready to listen with most friendly smiles. He professed himself extremely anxious about her fair friend, her fair, lovely, amiable friend.
Did she know? Had she heard anything about her since their being at Randalls? He felt much anxiety. He must confess that the nature of her complaint alarmed him considerably. And in this style he talked on for some time very properly, not much attending to any answer, but altogether sufficiently awake to the terror of a bad sore throat. And Emma was quite in charity with him.
But at last there seemed a perverse turn. It seemed all at once as if he were more afraid of its being a bad sore throat on her account than on Harriet's. More anxious that she should escape the infection than that there should be no infection in the complaint.
He began with great earnestness to entreat her to refrain from visiting the sick chamber again for the present, to entreat her to promise him not to venture into such hazard till he had seen Mr. Perry and learnt his opinion, and though she tried to laugh it off and bring the subject back into its proper course, there was no putting an end to his extreme solicitude about her. she was vexed.
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Chapter 2: How does the snow impact the characters at the Christmas party?
A very few flakes were falling at present, but the clouds were parting, and there was every appearance of its being soon over. He had seen the coachman, and they both agreed with him in there being nothing to apprehend.
To Isabella, the relief of such tidings was very great, and they were scarcely less acceptable to Emma on her father's account, who was immediately set as much at ease on the subject as his nervous constitution allowed. But the alarm that had been raised could not be appeased so as to admit of any comfort for him while he continued at Randall's.
He was satisfied of there being no present danger in returning home, but no assurances could convince him that it was safe to stay. And while the others were variously urging and recommending, Mr. Knightley and Emma settled it in a few brief sentences. Thus, Your father will not be easy. Why do not you go? Shall I ring the bell? Yes, do. And the bell was rung and the carriages spoken for.
A few minutes more, and Emma hoped to see one troublesome companion deposited in his own house, to get sober and cool, and the other recover his temper and happiness when this visit of hardship were over.
The carriage came, and Mr. Woodhouse, always the first object on such occasions, was carefully attended to his own by Mr. Knightley and Mr. Weston, but not all that either could say could prevent some renewal of alarm at the sight of the snow which had actually fallen and the discovery of a much darker night than he had been prepared for. He was afraid they should have a very bad drive.
He was afraid poor Isabella would not like it. And there would be poor Emma in the carriage behind. He did not know what they had best do. They must keep as much together as they could. And James was talked to and given a charge to go very slow and wait for the other carriage. Isabella stepped in after her father.
John Knightley, forgetting that he did not belong to their party, stepped in after his wife very naturally, so that Emma found on being escorted and followed into the second carriage by Mr. Elton that the door was to be lawfully shut on them and that they were to have a tête-à-tête drive. It would not have been the awkwardness of a moment.
It would have been rather a pleasure, previous to the suspicions of this very day. She could have talked to him of Harriet, and the three quarters of a mile would have seemed but one. But now, she would rather it had not happened. She believed he had been drinking too much of Mr. Weston's good wine and felt sure that he would want to be talking nonsense.
To restrain him as much as might be, by her own manners, she was immediately preparing to speak with exquisite calmness and gravity of the weather and the night.
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