Emma found it really time to be at home; the visit had already lasted long; and on examining watches, so much of the morning was perceived to be gone, that Mrs. Weston and her companion taking leave also, could allow themselves only to walk with the two young ladies to Hartfield gates, before they set off for Randalls.
CHAPTER XI
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;——but when a beginning is made—— when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt——it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
But soon it came to be on one side,
"But will there be good room for five couple?——I really do not think there will."
On another,
"We were too magnificent," said he. "We allowed unnecessary room. Ten couple may stand here very well."
"Very true," he gravely replied; "it was very bad." But still he went on measuring, and still he ended with,