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Emma

CHAPTERXI
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You and Miss Smith, and Miss Fairfax, will be three, and the two Miss Coxes five; and for five couple there will be plenty of room." But soon it came to be on one side, "But will there be good room for five couple ?--I really do not think there will." On another, "And after all, five couple are not enough to make it worth while to stand up.

Five couple are nothing, when one thinks seriously about it.
It will not do to _invite_ five couple.

It can be allowable only as the thought of the moment." Somebody said that _Miss_ Gilbert was expected at her brother's, and must be invited with the rest.

Somebody else believed _Mrs_.

Gilbert would have danced the other evening, if she had been asked.


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