‘You are paying Miss Emma no great compliment I think Mary,’ said he hastily. – ‘Mr Sam Watson is a very good sort of young man, and I dare say a very clever surgeon, but his complexion has been rather too much exposed to all weathers, to make a likeness to him very flattering.’Mary apologized in some confusion. ‘She had not thought a strong likeness at all incompatible with very different degrees of beauty. – There might be a resemblance in countenance; and the complexion, and even the features be very unlike.’‘I know nothing of my brother’s beauty,’ said Emma, ‘for I have not seen him since he was seven years old – but my father reckons us alike.’13 ‘Mr Watson!’ – cried Mr Edwards, ‘Well, you astonish me. – There is not the least likeness in the world; Your brother’s eyes are grey, yours arebrown, he has a long face and a wide mouth. – My dear, do you perceive the least resemblance?’‘Not the least. – Miss Emma Watson puts me very much in mind of her eldest sister, and sometimes I see a look of Miss Penelope – and once or twice there has been a glance of Mr Robert – but I cannot perceive any likeness to Mr Samuel.’‘I see the likeness between her and Miss Watson,’ replied Mr Edwards, ‘very strongly – but I am not sensible of the others. – I do not think she is like any of the family but Miss Watson; but I am very sure there is no resemblance between her and Sam.’This matter was settled, and they went to dinner.‘Your father, Miss Emma, is one of my oldest friends,’ – said Mr Edwards, as he helped her to wine, when they were drawn round the fire to enjoy their desert. – ‘We must drink to his better health. – It is a great concern to me I assure you that he should be such an invalid. – I know nobody who likes a game of cards in a social way, better than he does; and very few people that play a fairer rubber. – It is a thousand pities that he should be so deprived of the pleasure. For now we have a quiet little whist club that meets three times a week at the White Hart, and if he could but have his health, how much he would enjoy it.’