Emma-Jane Austen Volume I-Chapter 18 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Emma Jane Austen Volume I Chapter XVIII Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew near Mrs. Weston s fears were justified in the arrival of a letter of excuse. For the present he could not be spared to his very great mortification and regret but still he looked forward with the hope of coming to Randalls at no distant period. Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed much more disappointed in fact than her husband though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober but a sanguine temper though for ever expecting more good than occurs does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure and begins to hope again. For half an hour Mr. Weston was surprized and sorry but then he began to perceive that Frank s coming two or three months later would be a much better plan better time of year better weather and that he would be able without any doubt to stay considerably longer with them than if he had come sooner. These feelings rapidly restored his comfort while Mrs. Weston of a more apprehensive disposition foresaw nothing but a repetition of excuses and delays and after all her concern for what her husband was to suffer suffered a great deal more herself. Emma was not at this time in a state of spirits to care really about Mr. Frank Churchill s not coming except as a disappointment at Randalls. The acquaintance at present had no charm for her. She wanted rather to be quiet and out of temptation but still as it was desirable that she should appear in general like her usual self she took care to express as much interest in the circumstance and enter as warmly into Mr. and Mrs. Weston s disappointment as might naturally belong to their friendship. She was the first to announce it to Mr. Knightley and exclaimed quite as much as was necessary or being acting a part perhaps rather more at the conduct of the Churchills in keeping him away. She then proceeded to say a good deal more .
