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"And it bids us beware of perils near at hand," droned Emma in a far-away voice. "Will you stop that?" demanded Elfreda. "You give me the creeps." "I think it is perfectly wonderful," breathed Emma. Then with greater emphasis she exclaimed, "Such a voice in the wilderness is an inspiration. How I wish Madam Gersdorff might be here to hear it.
I thank you, and Emma desires to thank you also, for your kindness in providing us with ample means for taking our little trip. It is beautiful weather today; the sea is calm, and the pleasure-boats are out. We do not of course expect to see you here. But if you do, by any chance, overcome your objection to moving out of London, I have a little request to make.
My sister, however, had known her well, had corresponded with her during all her life at the South, and had invited her to her house immediately upon her return to . Emma Long was a singularly fascinating woman. Plain and sharp and self-asserting at twenty-two, she had become at thirty-five magnetic and winning, full of tact, and almost beautiful.
"I have a nice little piece of blue ribbon that I will give you as soon as I open my trunk," Aunt Emma said; and very soon Ruby had the cunning little key tied fast around her neck, where she could put up her hand and feel it every now and then, and think of the pretty gift, and above all of the sealing-wax, which was the chief charm of the desk.
Little Emma had stood looking wonderingly on while this scene was passing. Turning to her mother with a serious face, as the door closed upon Henry, she said "Brother gone, mamma? "Yes, dear! Brother is gone," sobbed the mother, taking the last child that remained to her, and hugging it passionately to her bosom.
"I wonder if it's the same family that lived in Parker Street." "Yes, the same; and I wish they had stayed there." "Their moving in next door need not trouble us, Jane. They are not on our list of acquaintances." "But I shall have to call upon Mrs. Haloran; and Emma upon her grown-up daughter Mary." "I do not see how that is to follow as a consequence of their removal into our neighborhood."
Diana and Emma delighted to discover that they were each the rebel of their earlier and less experienced years; each a member of the malcontent minor faction, the salt of earth, to whom their salt must serve for nourishment, as they admitted, relishing it determinedly, not without gratification. Sir Lukin was busy upon his estate in Scotland.
"How do you do, Willie?" continued Emma, as the children, each carrying a basket of berries, drew nearer. "Very well, thank you," said Willie, taking off his hat; and the little girl courtesied, without lifting her eyes from the ground. "We are going over to see your mother," said Emma.
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
I didn't know she was Aunt Emma then for, indeed, I had never seen her before; but I remember arriving there at her pretty little cottage, and seeing a sweet old lady barely sixty, I should say, but with smooth white hair, who stood on the steps of the house and cried like a child, and held out her hands to me, and hugged me and kissed me. And it was there that I learned my first word.
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