CHAPTER XIII

　　"I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice," said she.—— "In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more."

　　Upon the whole, she was equally contented with her view of his feelings.

　　"I must not dwell upon it," said she.——"I must not think of it. I know the danger of indulging such speculations. But stranger things have happened; and when we cease to care for each other as we do now, it will be the means of confirming us in that sort of true disinterested friendship which I can already look forward to with pleasure."

　　Harriet felt this too much to utter more than a few words of eager exclamation. Emma continued,