"I am not going to dance with Master Blake Sir." The Gentleman^{a little} q^uite disconcerted, could onlyhope he might be more fortunate anothertime – & seeming unwilling to leave her, tho’thoughhis friend L^d .Lord Osborne was waiting in the Door==way for the result, as Emma saw with someamusement ^perceived, ^ – he soon soon began t^o ^{make civil} enquireies¹after her family. – "How comes it, that we havenot the pleasure of seeing your Sisters here this Evening? – Our Aſsemblies have been used to beso well treated by them, that we do not knowhow to take ^{this neglect.} their a^bsence." — "My eldest Sisteris the only one at home — & she could not leavemy Father —" ^{"Miſs Watson the only} said Emm^a wi^th civil one athome! – You astonish me! — It seems butthe day before yesterday that I saw themall three in this Town. But I am afraid Ihave been a very sad neighbour of late. Ihear dreadful complaints of my negligencewherever I go.,^{& I confeſs} —^It is a shameful lengthof time since I was at Stanton. — But I feel that I shall ^{now endeavour to} so^on make myselfamends for the past." — Emma’s calm curt::sey in reply to all this gallantry must have