“I never saw any gentleman’s handwriting”⁠—Emma began, looking also at Mrs. Weston; but stopped, on perceiving that Mrs. Weston was attending to someone else⁠—and the pause gave her time to reflect, “Now, how am I going to introduce him?⁠—Am I unequal to speaking his name at once before all these people? Is it necessary for me to use any roundabout phrase?⁠—Your Yorkshire friend⁠—your correspondent in Yorkshire;⁠—that would be the way, I suppose, if I were very bad.⁠—No, I can pronounce his name without the smallest distress. I certainly get better and better.⁠—Now for it.”

Mrs. Weston was disengaged and Emma began again⁠—“ Mr. Frank Churchill writes one of the best gentleman’s hands I ever saw.”