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　　"What news do you mean?" replied Emma, unable to guess, by look or voice, whether Harriet could indeed have received any hint.

　　"About Jane Fairfax. Did you ever hear any thing so strange? Oh!——you need not be afraid of owning it to me, for Mr. Weston has told me himself. I met him just now. He told me it was to be a great secret; and, therefore, I should not think of mentioning it to any body but you, but he said you knew it."

　　"What did Mr. Weston tell you?"——said Emma, still perplexed.

　　"Oh! he told me all about it; that Jane Fairfax and Mr. Frank Churchill are to be married, and that they have been privately engaged to one another this long while. How very odd!"

　　It was, indeed, so odd; Harriet's behaviour was so extremely odd, that Emma did not know how to understand it. Her character appeared absolutely changed. She seemed to propose shewing no agitation, or disappointment, or peculiar concern in the discovery. Emma looked at her, quite unable to speak.

　　"Had you any idea," cried Harriet, "of his being in love with her?——You, perhaps, might.——You (blushing as she spoke) who can see into every body's heart; but nobody else——"

　　"Upon my word," said Emma, "I begin to doubt my having any such talent. Can you seriously ask me, Harriet, whether I imagined him attached to another woman at the very time that I was——tacitly, if not openly—— encouraging you to give way to your own feelings?——I never had the slightest suspicion, till within the last hour, of Mr. Frank Churchill's having the least regard for Jane Fairfax. You may be very sure that if I had, I should have cautioned you accordingly."

　　"Me!" cried Harriet, colouring, and astonished. "Why should you caution me?——You do not think I care about Mr. Frank Churchill."

　　"Him!——never, never. Dear Miss Woodhouse, how could you so mistake me?" turning away distressed.

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