title: Emma: A Latter-day Tale
author:  Rebecca H. Jamison 
description: "...[a] funny, well-paced Mormon-themed take on Austen's often retold classic...Jamison's writing is engaging and full of vivid, amusing lines..." -- Publisher's Weekly --Publisher's Weekly
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  THE OTHER CATHY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nancy Buckingham
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  August 1860
  
  Emma felt no dear presentiment, nor any sense of foreboding, yet here in the
  hushed and secret early morning atmosphere with a summer mist upon the moor
  she was conscious of a strange exhilaration, as though the key to all her
  dreams, to all her innermost longings, might be within her grasp.
  
  She sought no more than a brief half-hour of solitude. So rarely these days
  did she have a chance of being entirely alone and, besides, she told herself,
  she would be doing Seth a kindness.
  
  ‘You ride on to your grandmother’s to collect the new jacket you’re having for
  the Donkey Fair,’ she said with an air of decision. ‘You did say she’d have it
  ready for today?’
  
  ‘Aye, Miss Emma. But t’master will be reet wild if I leave thy side, so will
  thou come along with me?’
  
  ‘No, thank you, Seth, and it will be all right. There’s no reason why Uncle
  Randolph need find out. Off you go, and I’ll wait for you at Blac