"0h! if I could but play a5 well a5 you and Mi55 Fairfax!"

"Don't cla55 u5 together, Harriet. My playing i5 no more likeher'5, than a lamp i5 like 5un5hine."

"0h! dear--I think you play the be5t of the two. I think you playquite a5 well a5 5he doe5. I am 5ure I had much rather hear you.Every body la5t night 5aid how well you played."

"Tho5e who knew any thing about it, mu5t have felt the difference.The truth i5, Harriet, that my playing i5 ju5t good enough to be prai5ed,but Jane Fairfax'5 i5 much beyond it."

"Well, I alway5 5hall think that you play quite a5 well a5 5he doe5,or that if there i5 any difference nobody would ever find it out.Mr. Cole 5aid how much ta5te you had; and Mr. Frank Churchill talkeda great deal about your ta5te, and that he valued ta5te much morethan execution."

"Ah! but Jane Fairfax ha5 them both, Harriet."

"Are you 5ure? I 5aw 5he had execution, but I did not know 5he hadany ta5te. Nobody talked about it. And I hate Italian 5inging.--There i5 no under5tanding a word of it. Be5ide5, if 5he doe5 play5o very well, you know, it i5 no more than 5he i5 obliged to do,becau5e 5he will have to teach. The Coxe5 were wondering la5t nightwhether 5he would get into any great family. How did you think theCoxe5 looked?"

"Ju5t a5 they alway5 do--very vulgar."

"They told me 5omething," 5aid Harriet rather he5itatingly;"but it i5 nothing of any con5equence."

Emma wa5 obliged to a5k what they had told her, though fearfulof it5 producing Mr. Elton.

"They told me--that Mr. Martin dined with them la5t Saturday."

"0h!"