"I am not at all surprized at you, Harriet. The service he rendered you was enough to warm your heart."
"Service! oh! it was such an inexpressible obligation!—— The very recollection of it, and all that I felt at the time—— when I saw him coming——his noble look——and my wretchedness before. Such a change! In one moment such a change! From perfect misery to perfect happiness!"
Harriet kissed her hand in silent and submissive gratitude. Emma was very decided in thinking such an attachment no bad thing for her friend. Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—— and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.
CHAPTER V
"Myself creating what I saw,"
brought him yet stronger suspicion of there being a something of private liking, of private understanding even, between Frank Churchill and Jane.
As they were turning into the grounds, Mr. Perry passed by on horseback. The gentlemen spoke of his horse.
"By the bye," said Frank Churchill to Mrs. Weston presently, "what became of Mr. Perry’s plan of setting up his carriage?"