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“ Mr Elton is not the kind of man who would ever fall in love without good reason , ” said Emma warmly . “ This is a real and serious attachment , and you will soon be the wife of the vicar of Highbury , my dear . ” Harriet copied the riddle into her book in her very best hand . Emma read it aloud to her father , who said that it was very pretty , but not nearly as good as “ Kitty , a fair but frozen maid ” . When Mr Elton came back that evening , Emma handed him the paper with a smile . “ Your friend’s lines are very fine , and we have copied them into Harriet’s book . ” He looked at her , and then at the book , and then back at her with deep feeling . “ This is the proudest moment of my life , ” he said in a low voice . Emma thought that he was a little foolish , but she supposed that men in love often were . A few days later , Emma and Harriet went to visit a poor , sick family who lived in a cottage a little way out of the village . Emma was always kind to the poor . She gave them money and good advice , she sat with them patiently , and she listened to their troubles with real interest . When the two friends came out into the lane again , Emma felt serious and good . “ These are the sights that do one good , ” she said . “ How small our own troubles seem when we see the poor and the sick ! ” At that moment they saw Mr Elton coming along the lane towards them , and Emma had a sudden idea . She fell behind the others , broke the lace of her boot on purpose and called to them to wait . Then she asked whether she might go into the vicarage , which was close by , to borrow a piece of string . Mr Elton was delighted , and they all went in . Emma stayed as long as she could in the housekeeper’s room so that the two others could be alone together in the parlour . But when she came back , she was disappointed . Mr Elton had spent the whole time talking about the weather and about a party he had been to the day before . He had not said a single word of love . “ He is very careful , ” Emma decided . “ He does not want to hurry , and he is waiting for the right moment . ” V . Snow at Christmas At Christmas Isabella and her husband came down from London with their five children to spend ten days at Hartfield . Mr Woodhouse was delighted to see his elder daughter . But he worried about all kinds of things at once : about the long journey , about the cold , and about the sea air at South End , where they had spent the autumn . He begged Isabella to take a little basin of thin gruel every evening , as he did himself . “ Mr Perry says that the sea is very rarely of use to anybody , ” he told her . Mr Perry was the Highbury doctor , and Mr Woodhouse believed every word that he said .
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