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"I am sorry I am not to have the pleasureof your company — especially as it makes menervous to be much alone."

Emma was the first of the females in theparlour on entering itagain; she found her brother therealone. — "So Emma, said he, you are quitethe Stranger at home. It must seem odd enoughto you to be here. – A pretty peice of work yourAunt Turner has made of it! – By Heaven!a woman should never be trusted with money.I always saidthought she ought to have settledsomething on you, as soon as her Husband died."when she took you away. " "But that would have been trusting me withmoney, replied Emma smiling, & I am a wo::man too. —" "It might have been placed secured toyour1after future use, in Trust, without yourhaving any power over it now. – What a blowit must have been upon you! — To find yourself,instead of probablebeingHeireſs of 8 or 9000£, sent backa weight upon your family, without a six::pence. – I hope the old woman will smart for it." ""DoI beg you not to speak disrespectfully of her –myAunt, Brother. She was very good to me.;&2 Ifshe has made an imprudent choice, she willsuffer more from it herself, than I can poſsibly do."

Footnotes

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'you' changed to 'your' (by inline insertion of 'r') in running revision.Back to context...
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Full stop altered to semi-colon; ampersand written over a dash.Back to context...
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