`To think of your sending us all your store
apples. You said you had a great many, and now you have not one left. We really
are so shocked! Mrs. Hodges may well be angry. William Larkins mentioned it
here. You should not have done it, indeed you should not. Ah! he is off. He
never can bear to be thanked. But I thought he would have staid now, and it
would have been a pity not to have mentioned. . . . Well, (returning to the
room,) I have not been able to succeed. Mr. Knightley cannot stop. He is going
to Kingston
`Yes,' said Jane, `we heard his kind
offers, we heard every thing.'
`Oh! yes, my dear, I dare say you might, because
you know, the door was open, and the window was open, and Mr. Knightley spoke
loud. You must have heard every thing to be sure. ``Can I do any thing for you
at Kingston
Emma found it really time to be at home;
the visit had already lasted long; and on examining watches, so much of the
morning was perceived to be gone, that Mrs. Weston and her companion taking
leave also, could allow themselves only to walk with the two young ladies to
Hartfield gates, before they set off for Randalls.
CHAPTER XI
It may be possible to do without dancing
entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months
successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material
injury accrue either to body or mind; - but when a beginning is made - when the
felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt - it must be a
very heavy set that does not ask for more.
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