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　　"Good God!" cried Emma, not attending to her.——"Mrs. Smallridge, too! Jane actually on the point of going as governess! What could he mean by such horrible indelicacy? To suffer her to engage herself—— to suffer her even to think of such a measure!"

　　"He knew nothing about it, Emma. On this article I can fully acquit him. It was a private resolution of hers, not communicated to him——or at least not communicated in a way to carry conviction.—— Till yesterday, I know he said he was in the dark as to her plans. They burst on him, I do not know how, but by some letter or message—— and it was the discovery of what she was doing, of this very project of hers, which determined him to come forward at once, own it all to his uncle, throw himself on his kindness, and, in short, put an end to the miserable state of concealment that had been carrying on so long."

　　Emma began to listen better.

　　"I am to hear from him soon," continued Mrs. Weston. "He told me at parting, that he should soon write; and he spoke in a manner which seemed to promise me many particulars that could not be given now. Let us wait, therefore, for this letter. It may bring many extenuations. It may make many things intelligible and excusable which now are not to be understood. Don't let us be severe, don't let us be in a hurry to condemn him. Let us have patience. I must love him; and now that I am satisfied on one point, the one material point, I am sincerely anxious for its all turning out well, and ready to hope that it may. They must both have suffered a great deal under such a system of secresy and concealment."

　　"His sufferings," replied Emma dryly, "do not appear to have done him much harm. Well, and how did Mr. Churchill take it?"

　　"Ah!" thought Emma, "he would have done as much for Harriet."

　　"And do you really believe the affair to have been carrying on with such perfect secresy?——The Campbells, the Dixons, did none of them know of the engagement?"

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