expected joys of the Evening, she felt a littleuncomfortable in the ^thought id^ea of all that was^to f^o precede them. Her conversation with Eliz.Elizabeth^too had givening¹ her ^{some very} many unpleasant² feel:=lings,  ^{with respect to her own family; &had3} to add to the awkwardneſs of so^{made her more open to other any disagreable im:} slight an acquaintance to the consciousneſs ^{from any other cause, & in particular to} of: preſsions,  the awkwardneſs^ ^{rushing into Intimacy on}_{& encreased her sense of the awkwardneſs⁴} of^ so slight an ac::quaintance.⁵ seemed a serious Evil. ––– There wasnothing in the manners of M^rs . or Miſs Edwardesto give immediate ^change diſsip^ation to these Ideas; the Mother ^tho'though w^as a very friendly woman, ^{had a reserved} but of rather^{air, & a great} formal aspect, & deal of formal Civility — & thedaughter, ^a th^e genteel looking girl,^^{of 22} with her hairin papers, seemed ^very as was naturally⁶ to have caughtsomething of the Stile of the Mother who had broughther up. –  ^Emma S^he was soon left to know what theycould be, by Eliz.'sElizabeth's being obliged to hurry away –& some very, very languid remarks on the pro::bable Brilliancy of the Ball, were all that broke at intervals a silence of half an hourbefore they were joined by the Master of thehouse. — M^r . Edwards had a much easier, ^&morecommunicative air than the Ladies of the Family;he was fresh from the Street, & he ^came en^tered ready