Emma

be more sure of succeeding if one of you will go with me.—`Oh,’ said he, `wait half a minute, till I have finished my job;’—For, would you believe it, Miss Woodhouse, there he is, in the most obliging manner in the world, fastening in the rivet of my mother’s spectacles.—The rivet came out, you know, this morning.— So very obliging!—For my mother had no use of her spectacles— could not put them on. And, by the bye, every


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be more sure of succeeding if one of you will go with me.—`Oh,’ said he, `wait half a minute, till I have finished my job;’—For, would you believe it, Miss Woodhouse, there he is, in the most obliging manner in the world, fastening in the rivet of my mother’s spectacles.—The rivet came out, you know, this morning.— So very obliging!—For my mother had no use of her spectacles— could not put them on. And, by the bye, every


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