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Emma by Jane Austen Part 2/2 · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: Quite the queen of the evening. Well, here we are
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  Speaker 1: at the passage two steps, Jane, take care of the
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  Speaker 1: two steps. Oh no, there is but one. Well I
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  Speaker 1: was persuaded there were two. How very odd I was
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  Speaker 1: convinced there were two, and there is but one. I
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  Speaker 1: never saw anything equal to the comfort and style candles
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  Speaker 1: everywhere I was telling you of your grandmamma, Jane, there
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  Speaker 1: was a little disappointment. The baked apples and biscuits excellent
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  Speaker 1: in their way, you know, But there was a delicate
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  Speaker 1: fricasie of sweetbread and some asparagus brought in at first,
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  Speaker 1: and good mister Woodhouse, not thinking the asparagus quite boiled enough,
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  Speaker 1: send it all out again. Now, there is nothing Grandmamma
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  Speaker 1: loves better than sweetbread and asparagus. So she was rather disappointed,
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  Speaker 1: but we agreed we would not speak of it to
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  Speaker 1: any body for fear of its getting round to dear
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  Speaker 1: miss Woodhouse, who would be so very much concerned. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is brilliant, I am all amazement. Could not have
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  Speaker 1: supposed anything such elegance and profusion. I have seen nothing
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  Speaker 1: like it since. Well, where shall we sit? Where shall
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  Speaker 1: we sit? Anywhere? So that Jane is not in a
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  Speaker 1: draft where I sit is of no consequence. Oh do
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  Speaker 1: you recommend this side? Well? I am sure, mister Churchill.
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  Speaker 1: Only it seems too good. But just as you please,
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  Speaker 1: what you direct in this house cannot be wrong. Dear Jane,
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  Speaker 1: how shall we ever recollect half the dishes for Grandmamma? Soup? Too?
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  Speaker 1: Bless me? I should not be helped so soon, but
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  Speaker 1: it smells most excellent, and I cannot help. Beginning, Emma
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  Speaker 1: had no opportunity of speaking to mister Knightley till after supper,
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  Speaker 1: but when they were all in the ballroom again, her
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  Speaker 1: eyes invited him irresistibly to come to her and be thanked.
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  Speaker 1: He was warm in his reprobation of mister Elton's conduct.
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  Speaker 1: It had been unpardonable rudeness, and missus Elie's looks also
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  Speaker 1: received the due share of censure. They aimed at wounding
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  Speaker 1: more than Harriet. Said he Emma, why is it that
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  Speaker 1: they are your enemies? He looked with smiling penetration, and,
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  Speaker 1: on receiving no answer, added, she ought not to be
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  Speaker 1: angry with you. I suspect whatever he may be do
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  Speaker 1: to that surmise. You say nothing, of course, but confess
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  Speaker 1: Emma that you did want him to marry Harriet. I did,
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  Speaker 1: replied Emma, And they cannot forgive me. He shook his head,
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  Speaker 1: but there was a smile of indulgence with it, and
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  Speaker 1: he only said, I shall not scold you. I leave
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  Speaker 1: you to your own reflections. Can you trust me with
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  Speaker 1: such flatterers? Does my vain spirit ever tell me I
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  Speaker 1: am wrong? Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Dot If one leads you wrong, I am sure the
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  Speaker 1: other tells you of it. I do own myself to
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  Speaker 1: have been completely mistaken in mister Elton. There is a
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  Speaker 1: littleness about him which you discovered and which I did not.
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  Speaker 1: And I was fully convinced of his being in love
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  Speaker 1: with Harriet. It was through a series of strange blunders.
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  Speaker 1: And in return for your acknowledging so much, I will
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  Speaker 1: do you the justice to say that you would have
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  Speaker 1: chosen for him better than he has chosen for himself
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  Speaker 1: to Harriet Smith has some first rate qualities which Missus
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  Speaker 1: Elton is totally without, an unpretending, single minded, artless girl,
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  Speaker 1: infinitely to be preferred by any man of sense and
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  Speaker 1: taste to such a woman as Missus Elton. I found
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  Speaker 1: Harriet more conversable than I expected. Emma was extremely gratified
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  Speaker 1: that they were interrupted by the bustle of mister Weston
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  Speaker 1: calling on every body to begin dancing again. Come miss Woodhouse,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Otway, Miss Fairfax, what are you all doing? Come? Emma,
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  Speaker 1: set your companions the example. Every body is lazy, every
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  Speaker 1: body is asleep. I am ready, said Emma, whenever I
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  Speaker 1: am wanted. Whom are you going to dance with? Asked
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  Speaker 1: mister Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, with
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  Speaker 1: you if you will ask me, will you, said he
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  Speaker 1: offering his hand. Indeed, I will. You have shown that
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  Speaker 1: you can dance. And you know we are not really
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  Speaker 1: so much brother and sister as to make it at
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  Speaker 1: all improper brother and sister. No, indeed, Chapter three. This
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  Speaker 1: little explanation with mister Knightley gave Emma considerable pleasure. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the agreeable recollections of the ball, which
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  Speaker 1: she walked about the lawn the next morning to enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: She was extremely glad that they had come to so
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  Speaker 1: good an understanding respecting the Eltons, and that their opinions
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  Speaker 1: of both husband and wife were so much alike, and
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  Speaker 1: his praise of Harriet. His concession in her favor was
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  Speaker 1: peculiarly gratifying. The impertinence of the Eltons, which for a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes had threatened to ruin the rest of her
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  Speaker 1: evening had been the occasion of some of its highest satisfactions,
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  Speaker 1: and she looked forward to another happy result, the cure
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  Speaker 1: of Harriet's infatuation. From Harriet's manner of speaking of the
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  Speaker 1: circumstance before they quitted the ball room, she had strong hopes.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed as if her eyes were suddenly opened, and
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  Speaker 1: she were enabled to see that mister Elton was not
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  Speaker 1: the superior creature she had believed him. The fever was over,
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  Speaker 1: and Emma could harbor little fear of the pulse being
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  Speaker 1: quickened again by injurious courtesy. She depended on the evil
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  Speaker 1: feelings of the Eltons for supplying all the discipline of
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  Speaker 1: pointed neglect that could be farther requisite Harriet rational, Frank
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  Speaker 1: Churchill not too much in love, and mister Knightley not
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  Speaker 1: wanting to quarrel with her, How very happy a summer
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  Speaker 1: must be before her. She was not to see Frank
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  Speaker 1: Churchill this morning. He had told her that he could
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  Speaker 1: not allow himself the pleasure of stopping at Hartfield, as
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  Speaker 1: he was to be at home by the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the day. She did not regret it, having arranged all
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  Speaker 1: these matters, looked them through, and put them all to rights.
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  Speaker 1: She was just turning to the house with spirits freshened
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  Speaker 1: up for the demands of the two little boys as
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  Speaker 1: well as of their Grandpapa, when the great iron sweep
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  Speaker 1: gate opened and two persons entered whom she had never
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  Speaker 1: less expected to see together, Frank Churchill, with Harriet leaning
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  Speaker 1: on his arm, actually Harriet a moment suffice to convince
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  Speaker 1: her that something extraordinary had happened. Harriet looked white and frightened,
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  Speaker 1: and he was trying to cheer her dot. The iron
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  Speaker 1: gates in the front door were not twenty yards asunder.
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  Speaker 1: They were all three soon in the hall, and Harriet, immediately,
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  Speaker 1: sinking into a chair, fainted away. A young lady who
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  Speaker 1: faints must be recovered, Questions must be answered, and surprises
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  Speaker 1: be explained. Such events are very interesting, but the suspense
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  Speaker 1: of them cannot last long. A few minutes made Emma
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  Speaker 1: acquainted with the whole. Miss Smith and Miss Bickerton, another
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  Speaker 1: parlor boarder at Missus Goddard's, who had been also at
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  Speaker 1: the ball, had walked out together and taken a road,
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  Speaker 1: the Richmond Road, which, though apparently public enough for safety,
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  Speaker 1: had led them into alarmed about half a mile beyond Highbury.
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  Speaker 1: Making a sudden turn, and deeply shaded by elms on
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  Speaker 1: each side, it became for a considerable stretch very retired,
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  Speaker 1: and when the young ladies had advanced some way into it,
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  Speaker 1: they had suddenly perceived, at a small distance before them,
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  Speaker 1: on a broader patch of greensward by the side, a
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  Speaker 1: party of Gypsies, a child on the watch came towards
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  Speaker 1: them to beg and Miss Bickerton, excessively frightened, gave a
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  Speaker 1: great scream, and, calling on Harriet to follow her, ran
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  Speaker 1: up a steep bank, cleared a slight hedge at the top,
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  Speaker 1: and made the best of her way by a short
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  Speaker 1: cut back to Highbury. But poor Harriet could not follow.
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  Speaker 1: She had suffered very much from cramp after dancing, and
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  Speaker 1: her first attempt to mount the bank brought on such
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  Speaker 1: a return of it as made her absolutely powerless, and
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  Speaker 1: in this state and exceedingly terrified, she had been obliged
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  Speaker 1: to remain. How the trampers might have behaved had the
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  Speaker 1: young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful. But such
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  Speaker 1: an invitation for attack could not be resisted, and Harriet
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  Speaker 1: was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by
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  Speaker 1: a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous and
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  Speaker 1: im pertin and in look, though not absolutely in word.
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  Speaker 1: More and more frightened, she immediately promised them money, and,
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  Speaker 1: taking out her purse, gave them a shilling, and begged
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  Speaker 1: them not to want more or to use her ill death.
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  Speaker 1: She was then able to walk, though but slowly, and
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  Speaker 1: was moving away, But her terror and her purse were
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  Speaker 1: too tempting, and she was followed, or rather surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: the whole gang, demanding more. In this state, Frank Churchill
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  Speaker 1: had found her, she trembling and conditioning, they loud and insolent.
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  Speaker 1: By a most fortunate chance, his leaving Highbury had been
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  Speaker 1: delayed so as to bring him to her assistance at
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  Speaker 1: this critical moment. The pleasantness of the morning had induced
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  Speaker 1: him to walk forward and leave his horses to meet
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  Speaker 1: him by another road a mile or two beyond Highbury,
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  Speaker 1: and happening to have borrowed a pair of scissors the
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  Speaker 1: night before of miss Bates, and to have forgotten to
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  Speaker 1: restore them. He had been obliged to stop at her
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  Speaker 1: door and go in for a few minutes. He was
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  Speaker 1: therefore later than he had intended, and being on foot,
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  Speaker 1: was unseen by the whole party till almost close to them.
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  Speaker 1: The terror which the woman and boy had been creating
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  Speaker 1: in Harriet was then their own portion. He had left
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  Speaker 1: them completely frightened, and Harriet, eagerly clinging to him and
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  Speaker 1: hardly able to speak, had just strength enough to reach
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  Speaker 1: Hartfield before her spirits were quite overcome. It was his
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  Speaker 1: idea to bring her to Hartfield. He had thought of
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  Speaker 1: no other place. This was the amount of the whole
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  Speaker 1: story of his communication and of Harriet's. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: she had recovered her senses and speech, dot he dared
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  Speaker 1: not stay longer than to see her well. These several
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  Speaker 1: delays left him not another minute to lose, and Emma,
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  Speaker 1: engaging to give assurance of her safety to missus Goddard,
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  Speaker 1: and notice of there being such a set of people
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood to mister Knightley, he set off with
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  Speaker 1: all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her
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  Speaker 1: friend and herself such an adventure as this, A fine
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  Speaker 1: young man and a lovely young woman thrown together in
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  Speaker 1: such a way could hardly fail of suggesting certain ideas
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  Speaker 1: to the coldest heart and the steadiest brain. So Emma,
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  Speaker 1: though at least could a linguist, could a grammarian, Could
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  Speaker 1: even a mathematician have seen what she did? Have witnessed
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  Speaker 1: their appearance together and heard their history of it, without
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  Speaker 1: feeling that circumstances had been at work to make them
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  Speaker 1: peculiarly interesting to each other? How much more must an
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  Speaker 1: imaginist like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight,
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  Speaker 1: especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind
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  Speaker 1: had already made. It was a very extraordinary thing. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: of the sort had ever occurred before to any young
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  Speaker 1: ladies in the place within her memory, no encounter, no
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  Speaker 1: alarm of the kind. And now it had happened to
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  Speaker 1: the very person, and at the very hour when the
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  Speaker 1: other very person was chancing to pass by to rescue her.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly was very extraordinary. And knowing as she did
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  Speaker 1: the favorable state of mind of each at this period,
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  Speaker 1: it struck her the more he was wishing to get
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  Speaker 1: the better of his attachment to herself, she just recovering
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  Speaker 1: from hermania. From mister Elton, it seemed as if everything
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  Speaker 1: united to p almost the most interesting consequences. It was
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  Speaker 1: not possible that the occurrence should not be strongly recommending
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  Speaker 1: each to the other. In the few minutes conversation which
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  Speaker 1: she had yet had with him, while Harriet had been
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  Speaker 1: partially insensible, he had spoken of her terror, her naivete,
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  Speaker 1: her fervor as she seized and clung to his arm
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  Speaker 1: with a sensibility amused and delighted, and just at last,
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  Speaker 1: after Harriet's own account had been given, he had expressed
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  Speaker 1: his indignation at the abominable folly of miss Bickerton in
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  Speaker 1: the warmest terms. Every thing was to take its natural course, however,
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  Speaker 1: neither impelled nor assisted. She would not stir a step
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  Speaker 1: nor drop a hint. No, she had had enough of interference.
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  Speaker 1: There could be no harm in a scheme, a mere
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  Speaker 1: passive scheme. It was no more than a wish. Beyond it,
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  Speaker 1: she would on no account proceed. Emma's first resolution was
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  Speaker 1: to keep her father from the knowledge of what had passed,
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  Speaker 1: aware of the anxiety and alarm it would occasion, But
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  Speaker 1: she soon felt that concealment must be impossible within half
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  Speaker 1: an hour. It was known all over Highbury it was
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  Speaker 1: the very event to engage those who talk, most the
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  Speaker 1: young and the low, and all the youth and servants
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  Speaker 1: in the place were soon in the happiness of frightful news.
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  Speaker 1: The last night's ball seemed lost in the Gypsies. Poor
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  Speaker 1: mister Woodhouse trembled as he sat, and, as Emma had foreseen,
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  Speaker 1: would scarcely be satisfied without their promising never to go
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  Speaker 1: beyond the shrubbery again. It was some comfort to him
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  Speaker 1: that many inquiries after himself and Miss Woodhouse, for his
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  Speaker 1: neighbors knew that he loved to be inquired after, as
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  Speaker 1: well as Miss Smith, were coming in during the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the day, and he had the pleasure of returning
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  Speaker 1: for answer that they were all very indifferent, which though
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  Speaker 1: not exactly true, for she was perfectly well, and Harriet
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  Speaker 1: not much. Otherwise Emma would not interfere with. She had
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  Speaker 1: an unhappy state of health in general for the child
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  Speaker 1: of such a man, for she hardly knew what indisposition was,
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  Speaker 1: and if he did not invent illnesses for her, she
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  Speaker 1: could make no figure in a message. The Gypsies did
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  Speaker 1: not wait for the operations of justice. They took themselves
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  Speaker 1: off in a hurry. The young ladies of Highbury might
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  Speaker 1: have walked again in safety before their panic began, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole history dwindled soon into a matter of little importance.
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  Speaker 1: But to Emma and her nephews, in her imagination, it
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  Speaker 1: maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking
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  Speaker 1: every day for the story of Harriet and the Gypsies,
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  Speaker 1: and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in
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  Speaker 1: the slightest particular from the original recital chapter four. A
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  Speaker 1: very few days had passed after this adventure when Harriet
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  Speaker 1: came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in
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  Speaker 1: her hand, and, after sitting down and hesitating, thus began,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Woodhouse, if you are at leisure, I have something
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  Speaker 1: that I should like to tell you, a sort of
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  Speaker 1: confession to make, and then you know it will be over.
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  Speaker 1: Emma was a good deal surprised, but begged her to speak.
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  Speaker 1: There was a seriousness in Harriet's manner which prepared her
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  Speaker 1: quite as much as her words for something more than ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: It is my duty, and I am sure it is
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  Speaker 1: my wish. She continued to have no reserves with you
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  Speaker 1: on this subject, as I am happily quite an altered creature.
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  Speaker 1: In one respect, it is very fit that you should
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  Speaker 1: have the satisfaction of knowing it. I do not want
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  Speaker 1: to say more than is necessary. I am too much
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of having given way as I have done. And
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  Speaker 1: I dare say you understand me, yes, said Emma, I
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  Speaker 1: hope I do. How I could so long a time
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  Speaker 1: be fancying myself, cried Harriet warmly. It seems like madness.
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  Speaker 1: I can see nothing at all extraordinary in him now.
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  Speaker 1: I do not care whether I meet him or not,
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  Speaker 1: except that of the two, I had rather not seen him,
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  Speaker 1: and indeed I would go any distance round to avoid him.
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  Speaker 1: But I do not envy his wife in the least.
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  Speaker 1: I neither admire her nor envy her as I have done.
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  Speaker 1: She is very charming, I dare say, and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but I think her very ill tempered and disagreeable. I
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  Speaker 1: shall never forget her. Look the other night, however, I
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  Speaker 1: assure you, Miss Woodhouse, I wish her no, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: let them be ever so happy together. It will not
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  Speaker 1: give me another moment's pang. And to convince you that
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  Speaker 1: I have been speaking truth, I am now going to
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  Speaker 1: destroy what I ought to have destroyed long ago, what
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  Speaker 1: I ought never to have kept. I know that very well,
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  Speaker 1: blushing as she spoke, However, now I will destroy it all,
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  Speaker 1: and it is my particular wish to do it in
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  Speaker 1: your presence, that you may see how rational I am. Grown.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot you guess what this parcel holds, said she, with
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  Speaker 1: a conscious look. Not the least in the world. Up
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  Speaker 1: did he ever give you anything? No? I cannot call
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  Speaker 1: them gifts, but they are things that I have valued
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  Speaker 1: very much. She held the parcel towards her, and Emma
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  Speaker 1: read the words most precious Treasures on the top. Her
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  Speaker 1: curiosity was greatly excited. Harriet unfolded the parcel, and she
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  Speaker 1: looked on with impatience. Within abundance of silver paper was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty little tunbridge ware box, which Harriet opened. It
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  Speaker 1: was well lined with the softest cotton. But excepting the cotton,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Emma saw only a small piece of court plaister. Now
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  Speaker 1: said Harriet, you must recollect. No, indeed I do not,
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  Speaker 1: dear me, I should not have thought it possible you
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  Speaker 1: could forget what passed in this very room about court plaister.
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  Speaker 1: One of the very last times we ever met in it.
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  Speaker 1: It was but a very few days before I had
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  Speaker 1: my sore throat, just before mister and missus John Knightley came,
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  Speaker 1: I think the very evening dot. Do not you remember
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  Speaker 1: his cutting his finger with your new pen knife and
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  Speaker 1: your recommending court plaister. But as you had none about
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  Speaker 1: you and knew I had, you desired me to supply him,
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  Speaker 1: and so I took mine out and cut him a piece.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a great deal too large, and he
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  Speaker 1: cut it smaller and kept playing some time with what
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  Speaker 1: was left before he gave it back to me. And
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  Speaker 1: so then, in my nonsense, I could not help making
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  Speaker 1: a treasure of it. So I put it by, never
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  Speaker 1: to be used, and looked at it now and then
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  Speaker 1: as a great treat my dearest Harriet, cried Emma, putting
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  Speaker 1: her hand before her face and jumping up. You make
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  Speaker 1: me more ashamed of myself than I can bear. Remember it.
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  Speaker 1: I I remember it all now, all except your saving
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  Speaker 1: this relic. I knew nothing of that till this moment,
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  Speaker 1: But the cutting the finger, and my recommending court plaster,
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  Speaker 1: and saying I had none about me, oh, my sins,
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  Speaker 1: my sins, and I had plenty all the while in
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  Speaker 1: my pocket, one of my senseless tricks. I deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be under a continual blush all the rest of my life,
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  Speaker 1: dot Well, sitting down again, go on, what else? And
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  Speaker 1: had you really sum at hand yourself? I am sure
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  Speaker 1: I never suspected it. You did it so naturally. And
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  Speaker 1: so you actually put this piece of court plaister by
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: for his sake, said Emma, recovering from her state of
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: shame and feeling divided between wonder and amusement. And secretly
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: she added to herself, Lord bless me, when should I
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: ever have thought of putting by and cotton a piece
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: of court plaister that Frank Churchill had been pulling about.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I never was equal to this, Here, resumed Harriet, turning
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: to her box again, here is something still more valuable.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I mean that has been more valuable, because this is
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: what did really once belong to him, which the court
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: plaster never did. Emma was quite eager to see this
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: superior treasure. It was the end of an old pencil,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the part without any lead. This was really his, said Harriet.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Do not you remember one morning? No, I dare say
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: you do not, But one morning I forget exactly the day,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: but perhaps it was the Tuesday or Wednesday before that
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: evening he wanted to make a memorandum in his pocket book.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: It was about spruce beer. Mister Knightley had been telling
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: him something about brewing spruce beer, and he wanted to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: put it down. But when he took out his pencil
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: there was so little lead that he soon cut it
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: all away, and it would not do. So you lent
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: him another, and this was left upon the table as
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: good for nothing. But I kept my eye on it,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and as soon as I dared, cut it up and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: never parted with it again from that moment. I do
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: remember it, cried Emma. I perfectly remember it, talking about
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: spruce beer. Dot oh, yes, mister Knightley and I both
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: saying we liked it, and mister Elton seeming resolved to
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: learn to like it too. I perfectly remember it. Dot stop.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Mister Knightley was standing just here, was not he? I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: have an idea he was standing just here. Ah, I
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: do not know. I cannot recollect it. It is very odd,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: but I cannot recollect it. Mister Elton was sitting here.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I remember much about where I am now, Well, go on, Oh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that's all I have nothing more to shew you or
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: to say, except that I am now going to throw
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: them both behind the fire, and I wish you to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: see me do it, My poor dear Harriet. And have
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you actually found happiness in treasuring up these things? Yes,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: simpleton as I was, but I am quite ashamed of
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: it now, and wish I could forget as easily as
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I can burn them. It was very wrong of me,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: you know, to keep any remembrances after he was married.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I knew it was, but had not resolution enough to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: part with them. But Harriet, is it necessary to burn
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the court plaster? I have not a word to say
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for the bit of old pencil, but the court plaister
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: might be useful. I shall be happier to burn it,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: replied Harriet. It has a disagreeable look to me. I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: must get rid of everything. There it goes, and there
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: is an end, thank Heaven of mister Elton. And when
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: thought Emma, will there be a beginning of mister Churchill,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: she had soon afterwards reason to believe that the beginning
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: was already made, and could not but hope that the Gipsy,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: though she had told no fortune, might be proved to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: have made Harriet's about a fortnight after the alarm, they
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: came to a sufficient explanation, and quite undesignedly, Emma was
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: not thinking of it at the moment, which made the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: information she received more value. She merely said, in the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: course of some trivial chat, well, Harriet, whenever you marry,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I would advise you to do so and so, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: thought no more of it till after a minute's silence,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: she heard Harriet say, in a very serious tone, I
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: shall never marry. Emma then looked up and immediately saw
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: how it was, and, after a moment's debate as to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: whether it should pass unnoticed or not, replied, never marry.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: This is a new resolution. It is one that I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: shall never change. However, after another short hesitation, I hope
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: it does not proceed from I hope it is not
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in compliment to mister Elton. Mister Elton indeed, cried Harriet indignantly,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: dot oh no, and Emma could just catch the words
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: so superior to mister Elton. She then took a longer
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: time for consideration. Should she proceed no farther? Should she
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: let it pass and seem to suspect nothing. Perhaps Harriet
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: might think her cold or angry if she did, or perhaerhaps,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: if she were totally silent, it might only drive Harriet
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: into asking her to hear too much, and against anything
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: like such an unreserve, as had been such an open
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and frequent discussion of hopes and chances, she was perfectly resolved. Dot.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: She believed it would be wiser for her to say
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and know at once all that she meant to say
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and know plain dealing was always best. She had previously
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: determined how far she would proceed on any application of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the sort, and it would be safer for both to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: have the judicious law of her own brain laid down
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: with speed. She was decided, and thus spoke Harriet. I
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: will not affect to be in doubt of your meaning.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Your resolution, or rather, your expectation of never marrying, results
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: from an idea that the person whom you might prefer
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: would be too greatly your superior in situation to think
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: of you. Is not it so, oh, Miss Woodhouse, believe me.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I have not the presumption to suppose. Indeed, I am
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: not so mad, Dot. But it is a pleasure to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: me to admire him at any distance, and to think
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: of his infinite superiority to all the rest of the world,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: with the gratitude, wonder, and veneration which are so proper
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: in me especially. I am not at all surprised at you, Harriot.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: The service he rendered you was enough to warm your heart. Service, Oh,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it was such an inexpressible obligation, the very recollection of it,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and all that I felt at the time when I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: saw him coming, his noble look, and my wretchedness before
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: such a change in one moment, such a change from
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: perfect misery to perfect happiness. It is very natural. It
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is natural, and it is honorable. Yes, honorable, I think
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to choose so well and so gratefully do, but that
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: it will be a fortunate preference is more than I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: can promise. I do not advise you to give way
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to it, Harriot. I do not, by any means engage
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: for its being returned. Consider what you are about. Perhaps
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: it will be wisest in you to check your feelings
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: while you can. At any rate. Do not let them
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: carry you far unless you are persuaded of his liking.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: You be observant of him, let his behavior be the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: guide of your sensations. I give you this caution now,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: because I shall never speak to you again on the subject.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I am determined against all interference. Henceforward I know nothing
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of the matter. Let no name ever pass our lips.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: We were very wrong before, we will be cautious now. Dot.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: He is your superior, no doubt. And there do seem
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: objections and obstacles of a very serious nature. But yet, Harriet,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: more wonderful things have taken place. There have been matches
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of greater disparity. But take care of yourself. I would
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: not have you too sanguine, though, however it may end,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: be assured your raising your thoughts to him is a
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: mark of good taste, which I shall always know how
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to value. Harriet kissed her hand in silent and submissive gratitude.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Emma very decided in thinking such an attachment no bad
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: thing for her friend. Its tendency would be to raise
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and refine her mind, and it must be saving her
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: from the danger of degradation. Chapter five. In this State
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: of schemes and hopes and connivance, June opened upon Hartfield
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to Highbury. In general, it brought no material change. The
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Eltons were still talking of a visit from the sucklings,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and of the use to be made of their beruche Landau,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and Jane Fairfax was still at her grandmother's, and as
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the return of the Campbells from Ireland was again delayed
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and August instead of Midsummer fixed for it, she was
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: likely to remain there full two months longer, provided at
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: least she were able to defeat missus Elton's activity in
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: her service and save herself from being hurried into a
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: delightful situation against her will. Mister Knightley, who for some
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: reason best known to himself, had certainly taken an early
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: dislike to Frank Churchill, was only growing to dislike him more.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: He began to suspect him of some double dealing in
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: his pursuit of Emma. That Emma was his object appeared indisputable.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Everything declared it. His own attentions, his father's hints, his
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: mother in law's guarded silence. It was all in unison words. Conduct, discretion,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and indiscretion told the same story. But while so many
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: were devoting him to Emma, and Emma herself making him
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: over to Harriet, mister Knightley began to suspect him of
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: some inclination to trifle with Jane Fairfax. He could not
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: understand it. But there were symptoms of intelligence between them,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he thought so, at least symptoms of admiration on his side, which,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: having once observed, he could not persuade himself to think
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: entirely void of meaning, however he might wish to escape
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: any of Emma's errors of imagination. She was not present
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: when the suspicion first arose. He was dining with the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Randall's family and Jane at the Eltons, and he had
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: seen a look, more than a single look at Miss Fairfax,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: which from the admirer of Miss Woodhouse seemed somewhat out
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of place. When when he was again in their company,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: he could not help remembering what he had seen, nor
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: could he avoid observations which, unless it were like Cooper
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and his fire at Twilight, myself creating what I saw
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: brought him yet stronger suspicion of there being a something
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: of private liking, of private understanding, even between Frank Churchill
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: and Jane. He had walked up one day after dinner,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: as he very often did, to spend his evening at Hartfield.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Emma and Harriet were going to walk, He joined them,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and on returning they fell in with a larger party
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: who like themselves, judged it wisest to take their exercise early,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: as the weather threatened rain. Mister and Missus Weston, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: their son, Miss Bates, and her niece, who had accidentally
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: met they all united, and on reaching Hartfield Gates, Emma,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: who knew it was exactly the sort of visiting that
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: would be welcome to her father, pressed them all to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: go in and drink tea with him. The Randall's party
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: agreed to it immediately, and after a pretty long speech
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: from Miss Bates which few persons listened to, she also
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: found it possible to accept dear Miss Woodhouse's most obliging invitation.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: As they were turning into the grounds, mister Perry passed
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: by on horseback. The gentleman spoke of his horse by
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the bye, said Frank Churchill to Missus Weston, presently, what
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: became of mister Perry's plan of setting up his carriage.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston looked surprised and said, I did not know
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that he ever had any such plan. Nay, I had
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it from you. You wrote me word of it three
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: months ago. Me impossible. Indeed, you did, I remember it perfectly.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: You mentioned it as what was certainly to be very soon.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Missus Perry had told somebody and was extremely happy about it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: It was owing to her persuasion, as she thought his
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: being out in bad weather did him a great deal
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of harm. You must remember it now upon my word.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I never heard of it till this moment, never really,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: never bless me. How could it be? Then? I must
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: have dreamt it, But I was completely persuaded. Miss Smith,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you walk as if you were tired. You will not
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: be sorry to find yourself at home. What is this?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: What is this? Cried mister Weston about Perry and a carriage?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Is Perry going to set up his carriage? Frank, I
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: am glad he can afford it. You had it from himself?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Had you? No, Sir, replied his son, laughing, I seem
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to have had it from nobody dot very odd. I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: really was persuaded of missus Weston's having mentioned it in
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: one of her letters to Enscombe many weeks ago, with
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: all these particulars. But as she declares, she never heard
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a syllable of it before. Of course it must have
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: been a dream. I am a great dreamer. I dream
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of every body at Highbury when I am away, and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: when I have gone through my particular friends. Then I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: begin dreaming of mister and missus Perry. It is odd, though,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: observed his father, that you should have had such a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: regular can dream about people whom it was not very
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: likely you should be thinking of it. Enscomb Perry's setting
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: up his carriage and his wife's persuading him to it
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: out of care for his health. Just what will happen?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I have no doubt some time or other, only a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: little premature. What an air of probability sometimes runs through
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a dream, and at others what a heap of absurdities.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It is well, Frank, your dream certainly showes that Highbury
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: is in your thoughts when you are absent, Emma. You
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: are a great dreamer. I think Emma was out of hearing.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: She had hurried on before her guests to prepare her
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: father for their appearance, and was beyond the reach of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: mister Weston's hint. Why to own the truth, cried Miss Bates,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: who had been trying in vain to be heard the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: last two minutes. If I must speak on this subject,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: there is no denying that mister Frank Churchill might have
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I do not mean to say that he did not
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: dream it. I am sure I have sometimes the oddest
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: dreams in the world. But if I am questioned about it,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I must acknowledge that there was such an idea last
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: spring for Missus Perry herself mentioned it to my mother,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and the Coles knew of it as well as ourselves,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: but it was quite a secret, known to nobody else,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and only thought of about three days. Missus Perry was
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: very anxious that he should have a carriage, and came
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to my mother in great spirits one morning because she
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: thought she had prevailed. Jane, don't you remember Grandmamma's telling
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: us of it? When we got home, I forget where
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: we had been walking to, very likely to Randall's. Yes,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I think it was to Randall's. Missus Perry was always
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: particularly fond of my mother, indeed, I do not know
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: who is not, and she had mentioned it to her
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in confidence. She had no objection to her telling us,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: of course, but it was not to go beyond, And
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: from that day to this I never mentioned it to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a soul that I know of. At the same time,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I will not positively answer for my having never dropped
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a hint, because I know I do sometimes pop out
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a thing before I am aware. I am a talker,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you know, I am rather a talker. And now and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: then I have let a thing escape me which I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: should not. I am not like Jane. I wish I were.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I will answer for it. She never betrayed the least
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: thing in the world. Where is she? Oh? Just behind?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Perfectly remember missus Perry's coming extraordinary dream. Indeed they were
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: entering the hall. Mister Knightley's eyes had preceded Miss Bates's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: in a glance at Jane from Frank Churchill's face, where
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: he thought he saw confusion suppressed or laughed away. He
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: had involuntarily turned to hers, but she was indeed behind
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and too busy with her shawl. Mister Weston had walked in.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: The two other gentlemen waited at the door to let
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: her pass. Mister Knightley suspected in Frank Churchill the determination
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: of catching her eye. He seemed watching her intently in vain. However,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: if it were so, Jane passed between them into the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: hall and looked at neither. There was no time for
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: farther remark or explanation. The dream must be born with
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and mister Knightley must take his seat with the rest
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: round the large modern circular table, which Emma had introduced
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: at Hartfield, and which none but Emma could have had
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: power to place there and persuade her father to use
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: instead of the small sized Pembroke on which two of
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: his daily meals had for forty years been crowded. Tea
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: passed pleasantly, and nobody seemed in a hurry to move.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Miss Woodhouse, said Frank Churchill, after examining a table behind
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: him which he could reach as he sat. Have your
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: nephews taken away their alphabets? Their box of letters? It
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: used to stand here? Where is it? This is a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: sort of dull looking evening that ought to be treated
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: rather as winter than summer. We had great amusement with
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: those letters. One morning, I want to puzzle you again.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Emma was pleased with the thought, and producing the box.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: The table was quickly scattered over with alphabets, which no
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: one seemed so much disposed to employ. As their two selves,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: they were rapidly forming words for each other or for
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: any body else who would be puzzled. The quietness of
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the game made it particularly eligible for mister Woodhouse, who
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: had often been distressed by the more animated sort which
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: mister Weston had occasionally introduced, and who now sat happily
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: occupied in lamenting with tender melancholy over the departure of
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the poor little boys, or in fondly pointing out, as
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: he took up any stray letter near him, how beautifully
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Emma had written it. Frank Churchill placed a word before
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Miss Fairfax. She gave a slight glance round the table
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and applied herself to it. Frank was next to Emma,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Jane opposite to them, and mister Knightley so placed as
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to see them all, and it was his object to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: see as much as he could, with as little apparent observation.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: The word was discovered, and with a faint smile, pushed away.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: If meant to be immediately mixed with the others and
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: buried from sight, she should have looked on the table
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: instead of looking just across, for it was not mixed.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: And Harriet, eager after every fresh word and finding out none,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: directly took it up and fell to work. She was
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: sitting by mister Knightley and turned to him for help.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: The word was blunder, and as Harriet exultingly proclaimed it,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: there was a blush on Jane's cheek which gave it
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: a meaning not otherwise ostensible. Mister Knightley connected it with
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the dream, but how it could all be was beyond
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: his comprehension. How the delicacy, the discretion of his favorite
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: could have been so lain asleep. He feared there must
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: be some decided involvement. Disingenuousness and double dealing seemed to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: meet him at every turn. These letters were but the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: vehicle for gallantry and trick. It was a child's play,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: chosen to conceal a deeper game on Frank Churchill's part.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: With great indignation did he continue to observe him with
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: great alarm and distrust, to observe also his two blinded companions.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: He saw a short word prepared for Emma and given
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to her with a look sly and demure. He saw
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: that Emma had soon made it out and found it
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: highly entertaining, though it was something which she judged it
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: proper to appear to censure, for she said nonsense for shame.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: He heard Frank Churchill next say, with a glance towards Jane,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I will give it to her, shall I, And as
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: clearly heard Emma opposing it with eager laughing warmth. No, No,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: you must not, you shall not. Indeed it was done. However,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: this gallant young man, who seemed to love without feeling
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and to recommend himself without complaisance, directly handed over the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: word to miss Fairfax, and with a particular degree of
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: sedate civility, entreated her to study it. Mister Knightley's excessive
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: curiosity to know what this word might be made him
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: seize every possible moment for darting his eye towards it,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and it was not long before he saw it to
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: be Dixon. Jane. Fairfax's perception seemed to accompany his. Her
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: superior intelligence of those five letters so arranged. She was
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: evidently displeased, looked up, and, seeing herself watched, blushed more
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: deeply than he had ever perceived her, and, saying only
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I did not know that proper names were allowed, pushed
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: away the letters with even an angry spirit, and looked
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: resolved to be engaged by no other word that could
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: be offered. Her face was averted from those who had
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: made the attack, and turned towards her Aunt. I very true,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: my dear, cried, the latter, though Jane had not spoken
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a word. I was just going to say the same thing.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: It is time for us to be going. Indeed, the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: evening is closing in, and Grandmamma will be looking for us.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: My dear sir, you are too obliging. We really must
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: wish you good night. Jane's alertness in moving proved her
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: as ready as her aunt had preconceived. She was immediately
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: up and wanting to quit the table, but so many
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: were also moving that she could not get away, and
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: mister Knightley thought he saw another collection of letters anxiously
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: pushed towards her, and resolutely swept away by her unexamined.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: She was afterwards looking for her shawl. Frank Churchill was
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: looking also. It was growing dusk, and the room was
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: in confusion. And how they parted, mister Knightley could not tell.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: He remained at Hartfield after all the rest, his thoughts
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: full of what he had seen, so full that when
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the candles came to assist his observations, he must, yes,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: he certainly must, as a friend, an anxious friend, give
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Emma some hint, ask her some question. He could not
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: see her in a situation of such danger without trying
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to preserve her. It was his duty pray, Emma said,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: he may, I ask in what lay the great amusement,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the poignant sting of the last word given to you
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and miss Fairfax. I saw the word, and am curious
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to know how it could be so very entertaining to
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the one and so very distressing to the other. Emma
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: was extremely confused. She could not endure to give him
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the true explanation, for though her suspicions were by no
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: means removed, she was really ashamed of having ever imparted them. Oh,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: she cried, in evident embarrassment. It all meant nothing, a
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: mere joke among ourselves. The joke, he replied, gravely, seemed
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: confined to you and mister Churchill. He had hoped she
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: would speak again, but she did not. She would rather
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: busy herself about anything than speak. He sat a little
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: while in doubt. A variety of evils crossed his mind. Interference, fruitless, interference,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Emma's confusion and the acknowledged intimacy seemed to declare her
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: affection engaged. Yet he would speak. He owed it to
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: her to risk anything that might be involved in an
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: unwelcome interference. Rather than her welfare to encounter anything, rather
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: than the remembrance of neglect in such a cause, My
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: dear Emma, said he at last, with earnest kindness. Do
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the gentleman and lady we have been speaking of between
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: mister Frank Churchill and miss Fairfax? Oh? Yes, perfectly, Dot.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Why do you make a doubt of it? Have you
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: never at any time had reason to think that he
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: admired her or that she admired him? Never? Never, she
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: cried with a most open eagerness. Never for the twentieth
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: part of a moment did such an idea occur to me?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: And how could it possibly come into your head? I
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: have lately imagined that I saw symptoms of attachment between them,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: certain expressive looks which I did not believe meant to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: be public. Oh, you amuse me excessively. I am delighted
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to find that you can vouchsafe to let your imagination wander.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: But it will not do. Very sorry to check you
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: in your first essay, But indeed it will not do.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: There is no admiration between them, I do assure you.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: And the appearances which have caught. You have arisen from
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: some peculiar circumstances feelings rather of a totally different nature.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: It is impossible exactly to explain. There is a good
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: deal of nonsense in it. But the part which is
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: capable of being communicated, which is sense, is that they
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: are as far from any attachment or admiration for one
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: another as any two beings in the world can be.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: That is, I presume it to be so on her side,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and I can answer for its being so on his.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I will answer for the gentleman's indifference. She spoke with
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: a confidence which staggered with a satisfaction which silenced mister Knightley.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: She was in gay spirits and would have prolonged the conversation,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: wanting to hear the particulars of his suspicions, every look described,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and all the wares and hows of a circumstance which
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: highly entertained her. But his gaiety did not meet hers.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: He found he could not be useful, and his feelings
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: were too much irritated for talking that he might not
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: be irritated into an absolute fever by the fire which
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: mister Woodhouse's tender habits required almost every evening throughout the year.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: He soon afterwards took a hasty leave and walked home
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: to the coolness and solitude of Donwell Abbey, Chapter six,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: after being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: from mister and Missus. So the Highbury world were obliged
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: to endure the mortification of hearing that they could not
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: possibly come till the autumn. No such importation of novelties
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: could enrich their intellectual stores at present in the daily
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: interchange of news, they must be again restricted to the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: other topics with which for a while the Suckling's coming
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: had been united, such as the last accounts of Missus Churchill,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: whose health seemed every day to supply a different report,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and the situation of Missus Weston, whose happiness, it was
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: to be hoped, might eventually be as much increased by
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the arrival of a child as that of all her
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: neighbors was by the approach of it. Missus Elton was
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: very much disappointed. It was the delay of a great
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: deal of pleasure and parade. Her introductions and recommendations must
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: all wait, and every projected party be still only talked of,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: so she thought at first, But a little consideration convinced
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: her that everything need not be put off. Why should
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: not they explore to box Hill? Though the Sucklings did
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: not come, they could go there again with them in
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: the autumn. It was settled that they should go to
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: box Hill. That there was to be such a party
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: had been long generally known. It had even given the
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: idea of another. Emma had never been to box Hill.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: She wished to see what every body found so well
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: worth seeing, and she and mister Weston had agreed to
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: choose some fine morning and drive thither. Two or three
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: more of the chosen only were to be admitted to
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: join them, and it was to be done in a quiet, unpretending,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: elegant way, infinitely superior to the bustle and preparation the
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: regular eating and drinking and picnic parade of the Eltons
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and the Sucklings. This was so very well understood between
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: them that Emma could not but feel some surprise and
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: a little displeasure on hearing from mister Weston that he
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: had been proposing to Missus Elton, as her brother and
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: sister had failed her, that the two parties should unite
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and go together, and that as Missus Elton had very
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: readily acceded to it. So it was to be if
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: she had no objection. Now, as her objection was nothing
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: but her very great dislike of missus Elton, of which
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: mister Weston must already be perfectly aware, it was not
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: worth bringing forward again. It could not be done without
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: a reproof to him, which would be giving pain to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: his wife. And she found herself therefore obliged to consent
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: to an arrangement which she would have done a great
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: deal to avoid, an arrangement which would probably expose her
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: even to the degradation of being said to be of
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: missus Elton's party. Every feeling was offended, and the forbearance
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: of her outward submission left a heavy ar rear due
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable good
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: will of mister Weston's temper. I am glad you approve
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: of what I have done, said he very comfortably. But
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I thought you would. Such schemes as these are nothing
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: without numbers. One cannot have too large a party. A
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: large party secures its own amusement. And she is a
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: good natured woman, after all, one could not leave her out.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Emma denied none of it, aloud and agreed to none
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: of it in private. It was now the middle of
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: June and the weather fine, and Missus Elton was growing
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: impatient to name the day and settle with mister Weston
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: as to pigeon pies and cold lamb. When a lame
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: carriage horse threw everything into sad uncertainty. It might be weeks,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: it might be only a few days before the horse
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: were usable, but no preparations could be ventured on and
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: it was all melancholy stagnation. Missus Elton's resources were inadequate
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to such an attack. Is not this most vexatious nightly,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: she cried? And such weather for exploring? These delays and
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: disappointments are quite odious. What are we to do? The
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: year will wear away at this rate, and nothing done
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: before this time last year. I assure you we had
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: had a delightful exploring party from Maple Grove to King's Weston.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: You had better explore to donwell, replied mister Knightley. That
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: may be done without horses. Come and eat my strawberries,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: they are ripening fast. If mister Knightley did not begin seriously,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: he was obliged to proceed so for his proposal was
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: caught at with delight, and the oh, I should like
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: it of all things, was not plainer in words than manner.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Donwell was famous for its strawberry beds, which seemed a
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: plea for the invitation, But no plea was necessary. Cabbage
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: beds would have been enough to tempt the lady, who
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: only wanted to be going somewhere. She promised him again
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: and again to come much oftener than he doubted, and
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: was extremely gratified by such a proof of intimacy, such
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: a distinguishing compliment, as she chose to consider it. You
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: may depend upon me, said she. I certainly will come.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Name your day and I will come. You will allow
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: me to bring Jane Fairfax. I cannot name a day,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: said he, till I have spoken to some others whom
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I would wish to meet you. Oh, leave all that
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: to me. Only give me a carte blanchtot. I am
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: lady patroness. You know it is my party. I will
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: bring friends with me. I hope you will bring Elton,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: said he. But I will not trouble you to give
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: any other invitations. Oh, now you are looking very sly,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: but consider you need not be afraid of delegating power
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: to me. I am no young lady on her preferment.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Married women, you know, may be safely authorized. It is
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: my party. Leave it all to me. I will invite
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: your guests. No, he calmly replied. There is but one
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: married woman in the world whom I can ever allow
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: to invite what guests she pleases to donwell, and that
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: one is Missus Weston, I suppose, interrupted, Missus Elton, rather mortified, No,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Missus Knightley, and till she is in being, I will
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: manage such matters myself. Ah, you are an odd creature,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: she cried, satisfied to have no one preferred to herself.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: You are a humorist and may say what you like.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Quite a humorist. Well, I shall bring Jane with me,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Jane and her aunt. The rest I leave to you.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I have no objections at all to meeting the Hartfield family.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Don't scruple. I know you are attached to them. You
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: certainly will meet them if I can prevail, And I
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: shall call on mis Bates in my way home. That's
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: quite unnecessary. I see Jane every day, but as you like,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: it is to be a morning scheme, you know, nightly
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: quite a simple thing. I shall wear a large bonnet
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: and bring one of my little baskets hanging on my
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: arm here, probably this basket with pink ribbon. Nothing can
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: be more simple, you see, and Jane will have such another.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: There is to be no form or parade, a sort
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: of gipsy party. We are to walk about your gardens
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: and gather the strawberries ourselves, and sit under trees, and
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: whatever else you may like to provide. It is to
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: be all out of doors, a table spread in a shade.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: You know, everything as natural and simple as possible. Is
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: not that your idea? Not quite? My idea of the
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: simple and the natural will be to have the table
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: spread in the dining room. The nature and the simplicity
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: of gentlemen and ladies with their servants and furniture, I
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: think is best observed by meals within doors. When you
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: are tired of eating strawberries in the garden, there shall
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: be cold meat in the house well as you please.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Only don't have a great set out. And by the bye,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: can I or my housekeeper be of any use to
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: you with our opinion? Pray be sincere knightly if you
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: wish me to talk to missus hodges or to inspect anything.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I have not the least wish for it. I thank
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: you well, But if any difficulties should arise, my housekeeper
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: is extremely clever. I will answer for it. That mine
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: thinks herself full as clever and would spurn any body's assistance.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: I wish we had a donkey. The thing would be
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: for us all to come on donkeys. Jane, miss Bates
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: and me and my Carrosposo walking by. I really must
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: talk to him about purchasing a donkey in a country life.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: I conceive it to be a sort of necessary for
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Let a woman have ever so many resources, it is
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: not possible for her to be always shut up at
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: home and very long walks. You know, in summer there
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: is dust and in winter there is dirt. You will
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: not find either. Between Donwell and Highbury. Donwell Lane is
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: never dusty, and now it is perfectly dry. Come on
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: a donkey, however, if you prefer it, you can borrow,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: missus Coles. I would wish everything to be as much
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: to your taste as possible. That I am sure you would. Indeed,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I do you justice, my good friend, under that peculiar
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: sort of dry, blunt manner, I know you have the
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: warmest heart. As I tell mister e you are a
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: thorough humorist. Yes, believe me, Nightly, I am fully sensible
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: of your attention to me. In the whole of this scheme,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: you have hit upon the very thing to please me.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Mister Knightley had another reason for avoiding a table in
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: the shade. He wished to persuade mister Woodhouse as well
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: as Emma, to join the party, and he knew that
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: to have any of them sitting down out of doors
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: to eat would inevitably make him ill. Mister Woodhouse must not,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: under the specious pretense of a morning drive and an
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: hour or two spent at Donwell, be tempted away to
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: his misery. He was invited on good faith. No lurking
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity. He
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: did consent. He had not been at Donwell for two years.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Some very fine morning, he and Emma and Harriet could
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: go very well, and he could sit still with Missus
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Weston while the dear girls walked about the gardens. He
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: did not suppose they could be damp. Now in the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: middle of the day, he should like to see the
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: old house again exceedingly and should be very happy to
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: meet mister and Missus Elton and any other of his neighbors. Duck,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: he could not see any objection at all to his
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: and Emma's and Harriet going there some very fine morning.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: He thought it very well done of mister Knightley to
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: invite them, very kind and sensible, much cleverer than dining out.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: He was not fond of dining out. Mister Knightley was
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: fortunate in every body's most ready concurrence. The invitation was
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: everywhere so well received that it seemed as if, like
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Missus Elton, they were all taking the scheme as a
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: particular compliment to themselves. Dot, Emma and Harriet professed very
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: high expectations of pleasure from it, and mister Weston, unasked,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: promised to get Frank over to join them if possible,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a proof of approbation and gratitude which could have been
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: dispensed with Dot. Mister Knightley was then obliged to say
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that he should be glad to see him, and mister
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Weston engaged to lose no time in writing and spare
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: no arguments to induce him to come in the Meanwhile,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: the lame horse recovered so fast that the party to
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: box Hill was again under happy consideration, and at last
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Arnwell was settled for one day and box Hill for
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: the next. The weather appearing exactly right under a bright
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: midday sun at almost midsummer, mister Woodhouse was safely conveyed
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: in his carriage with one window down, to partake of
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: this alfresco party, and in one of the most comfortable
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: rooms in the abbey, especially prepared for him by a fire.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: All the morning. He was happily placed quite at his ease,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: ready to talk with pleasure of what had been achieved,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and advise every body to come and sit down and
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: not to heat themselves to missus. Weston, who seemed to
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: have walked there on purpose to be tired and sit
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: all the time with him, remained when all the others
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: were invited or persuaded out, his patient listener and sympathizer.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: It was so long since Emma had been at the
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: abbey that as soon as she was satisfied of her
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: father's comfort, she was glad to leave him and look
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: around her, eager to refresh and correct her memory with
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: more particular observation, more exact understanding of a house and
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: grounds which must ever be so interesting to her and
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: all her family. She felt all the honest pride and
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: could fairly warn, as she viewed the respectable size and
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: style of the building, its suitable becoming characteristic situation low
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: and sheltered, its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: by a stream of which the abbey, with all the
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight, and its
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: abundance of timber in rows and avenues which neither fashion
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: nor extravagance had rooted updt. The house was larger than
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Hartfield and totally unlike it, covering a good deal of
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: ground rambling and irregular, with many comfortable and one or
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: two handsome rooms. Dot It was just what it ought
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: to be, and it looked what it was, and Emma
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: felt an increasing respect for it, as the residence of
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: a family of such true gentility, untained it in blood
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: and understanding it some faults of temper John Knightley had,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably. She had given them
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: neither men, nor names, nor places that could raise a blush.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: These were pleasant feelings, and she walked about and indulged
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: them till it was necessary to do as the others
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: did and collect round the strawberry beds Dot. The whole
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: party were assembled, excepting Frank Churchill, who was expected every
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: moment from Richmond, and Missus Elton, in all her apparatus
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: ready to lead the way in gathering, accepting or talking strawberries.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: And only strawberries could now be thought or spoken of Dot,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: the best fruit in England, every body's favorite, always wholesome.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: These the finest beds and finest sorts, to delightful, to
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: gather for oneself, the only way of really enjoying them.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Mourning decidedly the best time, never tired, every sort good, hoboy,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: infinitely superior, no comparison the others hardly eatable, home boys,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: very scarce, chilly preferred white wood, finest flavor of all.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Price of strawberries in London, abundance about bristol maple grove
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: cultivation beds. When to be renewed, Gardeners thinking exactly different.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: No general rule guard ardeners never to be put out
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: of their way delicious fruit, only too rich to be eaten,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: much of inferior to Cherry's currents, more refreshing, only objection
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: to gathering strawberries. The stooping, glaring sun, tired to death,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: could bear it no longer, must go and sit in
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: the shade. Such for half an hour was the conversation
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: interrupted only once by Missus Weston, who came out in
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: her solicitude after her son in law to inquire if
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: he were come, and she was a little uneasy, she
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: had some fears of his horse. Seats tolerably in the
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: shade were found, and now Emma was obliged to overhear
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: what Missus Elton and Jane Fairfax were talking of. Dott
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: A situation, a most desirable situation, was in question. Missus
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Elton had received notice of it that morning and was
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: in raptures. It was not with Missus Suckling, It was
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: not with Missus Bragg, but in felicity and splendor it
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: fell short only of them. It was with a cousin
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: of Missus Bragg, an acquaintance of Missus Suckling, a lady
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: known at Maple Grove, delightful, charming, superior first circles spheres, lines, ranks, everything,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: and missus Elton was wild to have the offer closed
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: with immediately dot On her side all was warmth, energy
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: and triumph, and she positively refused to take her friend's negative.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Though Miss Fairfax continued to assure her that she would
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: not at present engage in any thing, repeating the same
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: motives which she had been heard to urge before death.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Still missus Elton insisted on being authorized to write an
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: acquiescence by the Moros Post. How Jane could bear it
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: at all was astonishing to Emmde. She did look vexed,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: she did speak pointedly, and at last, with a decision
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: of action unusual to her, proposed or removaled. Should not
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: they walk? Would not mister Knightley shew them the gardens,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: all the gardens She wished to see, the whole extent.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: The perdinacity of her friends seemed more than she could bear.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: It was hot, and after walking some time over the
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: gardens in a scattered, dispersed way, scarcely any three together,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: they insensibly followed one another to the delicious shade of
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: a broad, short avenue of limes, which, stretching beyond the
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: garden at an equal distance from the river seemed the
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: finish of the pleasure grounds. Dot. It led to nothing,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: nothing but a view at the end, over a low
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: stone wall with high pillars, which seemed intended in their
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: erection to give the appearance of an approach to the
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: house which never had been there. Disputable, however, as might
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: be the taste of such a termination, it was in
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: extremely pretty. Dot. The considerable slope at nearly the foot
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: of which the abbey stood gradually acquired a steeper form
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: beyond its grounds, and at half a mile distant was
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: And at the bottom of this bank, favorably placed and sheltered,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: rose the abbey mill farm, with meadows in front, and
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: the river making a close and handsome curve around it.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: It was a sweet view, sweet to the eye and
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: a sun bright without being oppressive. In this walk, Emma
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: and mister Weston found all the others assembled, and towards
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: this view, she immediately perceived mister Knightley and Harriet distinct
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: from the rest quietly leading the way mister Knightley and Harriet.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: It was an odd tete a tete, but she was
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: glad to see it. Dot There had been a time
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: when he would have scorned her as a companion and
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: turned from her with little ceremony. Now they seemed in
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: pleasant conversation. There had been a time also when Emma
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: would have been sorry to see Harriet in a spot
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: so favorable for the Abbey Mill farm, but now she
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: feared it not it might be safely viewed with all
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: its appendages of prosperity and beauty, its rich pastures, spreading flocks,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: orchard and blossom, and light column of smoke ascendinged it.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: She joined them at the wall and found them more
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: engaged in talking than in looking around. He was giving
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Harriet information as to modes of agriculture, et cetera, and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Emma received a smile which seemed to say, these are
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: my own concerns. I have a right to talk on
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: such subjects without being suspected of introducing Robert Martin. She
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: did not suspect him. It was too old, a storied
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Robert Martin had probably ceased to think of Harriet. They
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: took a few turns together along the walk to the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: shade was most refreshing, and Emma found it the pleasantest
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: part of the day. The next remove was to the house.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: They must all go in and eat, and they were
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: all seated and busy, and still Frank Churchill did not come.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston looked and looked in vain. His father would
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: not own himself uneasy, and laughed at her fears. But
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: she could not be cured of wishing that he would
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: part with his black mare. He had expressed himself as
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: to coming with more than common certainty. His aunt was
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: so much better that he had not a doubt of
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: getting over to them. Missus Churchill state, however, as many
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: were ready to remind her, was liable to such sudden
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: variation as might disappoint her nephew in the most reasonable dependence,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: and Missus Weston was at last persuaded to believe, or
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: to say, that it must be by some attack of
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Missus Churchill, that he was prevented coming to Emma looked
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: at Harriet while the point was under consideration. She behaved
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: very well and betrayed no emotion. The cold repast was over,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: and the party were to go out once more to
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: see what had not yet been seen the old abbey
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: fish ponds, perhaps get as far as the clover which
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: was to be begun cutting on the morrow, or at
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: any rate, have the pleasure of being hot and growing
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: cool again. Mister Woodhouse, who had already taken his little
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: round in the highest part of the gardens, where no
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: damps from the river were imagined even by him, stirred
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: no more, and his daughter resolved to remain with him,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: that Missus Weston might be persuaded away by her husband
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: to the exercise and variety which her spirits seemed to need.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Mister Knightley had done all in his power for mister
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Woodhouse's entertainment. Books of engravings, drawers of medals, cameos, corals, shells,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: and every other family collection within his cabinets had been
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: prepared for his old friend to while away the morning,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: and the kindness had perfectly answered. Mister Woodhouse had been
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: exceedingly well amused. Missus Weston had been showing them all
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: to him, and now he would show them all to Emma.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Fortunate in having no other resemblance to a child than
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: in a total want of taste for what he saw,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: For he was slow, constant, and methodical. Before this second
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: looking over was begun, however, Emma walked into the hall
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: for the sake of a few moments free observation of
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: the entrance and ground plot of the house, and was
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: hardly there when Jane Fairfax appeared, coming quickly in from
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: the garden and with a look of escape. Dot little
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: expecting to meet Miss Woodhouse so soon. There was a
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: start at first, but Miss Woodhouse was the very person
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: she was in quest of. Will you be so kind,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: said she, when I am missed as to say that
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: I am gone home. I am going this moment my
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: and as no not aware how late it is, nor
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: how long we have been absent, but I am sure
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: we shall be wanted, and I am determined to go
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: directly to I have said nothing about it to any body.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: It would only be giving trouble and distress. Some are
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: gone to the ponds and some to the lime. Walk
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: till they all come, and I shall not be missed.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: And when they do, will you have the goodness to
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: say that I am gone? Certainly if you wish it.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: But you are not going to walk to Highbury alone? Yes,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: what should hurt me? I walk fast I shall be
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: at home in twenty minutes, but it is too far. Indeed,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: it is to be walking quite alone. Let my father's
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: servant go with you. Dot. Let me order the carriage.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: It can be round in five minutes. Thank you, thank you,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: But on no account I would rather walk, Dot. And
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: for me to be afraid of walking alone, I who
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: may so soon have to guard others. She spoke with
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: great agitation, and Emma very feelingly replied, that can be
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: no reason for your being exposed to danger. Now I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: must order the carriage. The heat even would be dangered.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: You are fatigued already, I am, she answered. I am fatigued,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: but it is not the sort of fatigue. Quick walking
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: will refresh meat up. Miss Woodhouse. We all know at
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: times what it is to be wearied in spirits. Mine,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I confess, are exhausted. The greatest kindness you can shew
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: me will be to let me have my own way
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: and only say that I am gone when it is necessary.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Emma had not another word to oppose. She saw it all,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: and entering into her feelings promoted her quitting the house immediately,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: and watched her safely off with the zeal of a friend.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Her parting look was grateful, and her parting words, Oh,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone, seemed to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: burst from an overcharged heart, and to describe somewhat of
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: the continual endurance to be practiced by her, even towards
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: some of those who loved her best. Such a home, indeed,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: such an aunt, said Emma, as she turned back into
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: the hall again. I do pity you, And the more
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: sensibility you betray of their just horrors, the more I
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: shall like you. Jane had not been gone a quarter
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: of an hour, and they had only accomplished some views
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: of Saint Mark's Place Venice. When Frank Churchill entered the room.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Emma had not been thinking of him. She had forgotten
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: to think of him, but she was very glad to
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: see him. Missus Weston would be at ease. The Black
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Mare was blameless. They were right who had named Missus
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Churchill as the cause. He had been detained by a
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: temporary increase of illness in her, a nervous seizure which
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: had lasted some hours, and he had quite given up
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: every thought of coming till very late, and had he
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: known how hot a ride he should have, and how late,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: with all his hurry. He must be. He believed he
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: should not have come at all. The heat was excessive.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: He had never suffer for anything like it. Almost wished
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: he had stayed at home. Nothing killed him like heat.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: He could bear any degree of cold, et cetera. But
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: heat was intolerable. And he sat down at the greatest
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: possible distance from the slight remains of mister Woodhouse's fire,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: looking very deplorable. You will soon be cooler if you
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: sit still, said Emma. As soon as I am cooler,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: I shall go back again. I could very ill be spared,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: but such a point had been made of my coming.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: You will all be going soon, I suppose, the whole
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: party breaking up. I met one as I came, madness
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: in such weather, absolute madness. Emma listened and looked, and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: soon perceived that Frank Churchill's state might be best defined
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: by the expressive phrase of being out of humor. Some
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: people were always cross when they were hot. Such might
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: be his constitution. And as she knew that eating and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: drinking were often the cure of such incidental complaints, she
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: recommended his taking some refreshment. He would find abundance of
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: everything in the dining room, and she humanly pointed out
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: the door. No, he should not eat, he was not hungry.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: It would only make him hotter in two minutes. However,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: he relented in his own favor, and, muttering something about
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: spruce beer, walked off. Emma returned all her attention to
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: her father, saying, in secret, I am glad I have
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: done being in love with him. I should not like
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Harriet's sweet, easy temper will not mind it. He was
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: gone long enough to have had a very comfortable meal,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: and came back all the better, grown quite cool and
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: with good manners, like himself, able to draw a chair
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: close to them, take an interest in their employment, and
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: regret in a reasonable way that he should be so late.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: He was not in his best spirits, but seemed trying
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: to improve them, and at last made himself talk nonsense
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: very agreeably. They were looking over views in Swisserland. As
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: soon as my aunt gets well, I shall go abroad,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: said he. I shall never be easy till I have
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: seen some of these places. You will have my sketches
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: some time or other to look at, or my tour
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: to read, or my poem. I shall do something to
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: expose myself. That may be, but not by sketches in Swisserland.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: You will never go to Swisserland. Your uncle and aunt
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: will never allow you to leave England. They may be
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: induced to go too. A warm climate may be prescribed
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: for her. I have more than half an expectation of
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: our all going abroad. I assure you I have. I
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: feel a strong persuasion this morning that I shall soon
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: be abroad. I ought to travel. I am tired of
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: doing nothing. I want a change. I am serious, Miss Woodhouse,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: whatever your penetrating eyes may fancy, I am sick of
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: England and would leave it tomorrow if I could. You
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: are sick of prosperity and indulgence. Cannot you invent a
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: few hardships for yourself and be contented to stay? I
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: sick of prosperity and indulgence. You are quite mistaken. I
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: do not look upon myself as either prosperous or indulged.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: I am thwarted in everything material. I do not consider
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: myself at all a fortunate person. You are not quite
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: so miserable, though, as when you first came. Go and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: eat and drink a little more, and you will do
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: very well. Another slice of cold meat, another draft of
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: madeira and water will make you nearly on a par
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: with the rest of us. No, I shall not stir.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: I shall sit by you. You are my best cure.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: We are going to box Hill tomorrow. You will join us.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: It is not Swizzerland, but it will be something for
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: a young man so much in want of a change.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: You will stay and go with us. No, certainly not.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: I shall go home in the cool of the even
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: but you may come again in the cool of tomorrow morning. No,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: it will not be worth while. If I come, I
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: shall be cross then pray stay at Richmond. But if
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: I do, I shall be crosser. Still. I can never
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: bear to think of you all there without me. These
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: The rest of the party were now returning, and all
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: were soon collected. With some there was great joy at
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: the sight of Frank Churchill. Others took it very composedly,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: but there was a very general distress and disturbance on
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: Miss Fairfax's disappearance. Being explained that it was time for
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: every body to go concluded the subject, and with a
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: short final arrangement for the next day's scheme, they parted.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Frank Churchill's little inclination to exclude himself increased so much
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: that his last words to Emma were, well, if you
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: wish me to stay and join the party, I will.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: She smiled her acceptance, and nothing less than a summons
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: from Richmond was to take him back before the following evening.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven. They had a very fine day for box Hill,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: and all the other outward circumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: punctuality were in favor of a pleasant party. Mister Weston
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: directed the whole officiating safely between Hartfield and the vicarage,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: and every body was in good time. Emma and Harriet
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: went together, Miss Bates and her niece with the Eltons,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: the gentlemen on horseback. Missus Weston remained with mister Woodhouse.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: Nothing was wanting but to be happy when they got there.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Seven miles were traveled in expectation of enjoyment, and every
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: body had a burst of admiration on first arriving. But
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: in the general amount of the day there was deficiency.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: There was a languor a want of spirits, a want
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: of union which could not be got over. They separated
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: too much into parties. The Eltons walked together. Mister Knightley
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: took charge of miss Bates and Jane, and Emma and
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Harriet belonged to Frank Churchill, and mister Weston tried in
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: vain to make them harmonize better. It seemed at first
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: an accidental division, but it never materially varied. Mister and
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: missus Elton indeed chewed no unwillingness to mix and be
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: as agreeable as they could. But during the two whole
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: hours that were spent on the hill, there seemed a
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: principle of separation between the other parties, too strong for
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: any fine prospects, or any cold collation or any cheerful
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: mister Weston to remove. At first it was downright dulness
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: to Emma. She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: and stupid. He said nothing worth hearing, looked without seeing,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: admired without intelligence, listened without knowing what she said. While
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: he was so dull, it was no wonder that Harriet
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: should be dull likewise, and they were both insufferable. When
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: they all sat down, it was better to her taste
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: a great deal better, for Frank Churchill grew talkative and gay,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: making her his dead first object. Every distinguishing attention that
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: could be paid was paid to her. To amuse her
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: and be agreeable. In her eyes seemed all that he
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: cared for, and Emma, glad to be enlivened, not sorry
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: to be flattered, was gay and easy too, and gave
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: him all the friendly encouragement, the admission to be gallant,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: which she had ever given in the first and most
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: animating period of their acquaintance, but which now in her
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: own estimation, meant nothing, though in the judgment of most
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: people looking on it must have had such an appearance
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: as no English word but flirtation could very well describe
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: mister Frank Churchill and Miss Woodhouse flirted together excessively. They
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: were laying themselves open to that very phrase, and to
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: having it sent off in a letter to Maple Grove
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: by one lady to Ireland by another. Not that Emma
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: was gay and thoughtless from any real felicity. It was
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: She laughed because she was disappointed, and though she liked
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: him for his attentions and thought them all, whether in friendship,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: admiration or playfulness extremely judicious, they were not winning back
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: her heart. She still intended him for her friend. How
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: much I am obliged to you, said he for telling
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: me to come to day. If it had not been
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: for you, I should certainly have lost all the happiness
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: of this party. I had quite determined to go away again. Yes,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: you were very cross, and I do not know what
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: about except that you were too late for the best strawberries.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: I was a kinder friend than you deserved. But you
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: were humble. You begged hard to be commanded to come.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: Don't say I was cross. I was fatigued. The heat
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: overcame me. It is hotter to day, not to my feelings.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: I am perfectly comfortable to day. You are comfortable because
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: you are under command your command. Yes, perhaps I intended
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: you to say so, but I meant self command. You
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: somehow or other broken bounds yesterday and run away from
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: your own management. But today you are got back again.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: And as I cannot be always with you, it is
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: best to believe your temper under your own command rather
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: than mine. It comes to the same thing. I can
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: have no self command without a motive. You order me
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: whether you speak or not, and you can be always
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: with me. You are always with me, dating from three
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: o'clock yesterday. My perpetual influence could not begin earlier, or
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: you would not have been so much out of humor
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: before three o'clock yesterday. That is your date. I thought
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: I had seen you first in February. Your gallantry is
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: really unanswerable. But lowering her voice, nobody speaks except ourselves,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: for the entertainment of seven silent people. I say nothing
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: of which I am ashamed, replied he with lively impudence.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: I saw you first in February. Let every body on
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: the hill hear me if they can. Let my axent
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: swell to Michaelham on one side and Dorking on the other.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: I saw you first in February, and then whispering. Our
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: companions are excessively stupid. What shall we do to rouse them?
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: Any nonsense will serve they shall talk, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse, who wherever she is, presides,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: to say that she desires to know what you are
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: all thinking of. Some laughed and answered good humoredly. Miss
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: Bates said a great deal. Missus Elton swelled at the
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: idea of Miss Woodhouse's presiding. Mister Knightley's answer was, the
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: most distinct. Is miss Woodhouse sure that she would like
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: to hear what we are all thinking of? Oh no, no,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: cried Emma, laughing as carelessly as she could, upon no
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: account in the world. It is the very last thing
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: I would stand the brunt of. Just now, let me
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: hear anything rather than what you are all thinking of.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: I will not say quite all. There are one or two,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: perhaps glancing at mister Weston and Harriet, whose thoughts I
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: might not be afraid of knowing. It is a sort
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: of thing cried missus Elton emphatically, which I should not
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: have thought myself privileged to inquire into, though perhaps as
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: the chaperone of the party, I never was in any
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: circle exploring parties, young ladies, married women. Her mutterings were
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: chiefly to her husband, and he murmured in reply, very true,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: my love, very true, exactly so indeed quite unheard of.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: But some lady say anything better pass it off as
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: a joke. Every body knows what is due to you.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: It will not do, whispered Frank to Emma, they are
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: most of them affronted, I will attack them with more address,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse to
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: say that she waves her right of knowing exactly what
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: you may all be thinking of, and only requires something
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: very entertaining from each of you in a general way.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: Here are seven of you besides myself. She is pleased
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: to say, am very entertaining already, and she only demands
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: from each of you either one thing very clever, be
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: it prose or verse, original or repeated, or two things
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: moderately clever, or three things very dull, indeed, and she
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: engages to laugh heartily at them all. Oh very well,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Miss Bates. Then I need not be uneasy. Three
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: things very dull, indeed, that will just do for me.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: You know, I shall be sure to say three dull
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: things as soon as ever I open my mouth. Shan'n't
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: I looking round with the most good humored dependence on
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: every body's assent. Do not you all think I shall?
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: Emma could not resist, ah ma'am, but there may be
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: a difficulty. Pardon me, but you will be limited as
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: to number only three at once, Miss Bates. Deceived by
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: the mock ceremony of her manner did not immediately catch
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: her meaning. But when it burst on her it could
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: not anger. Though a slight blush shewed that it could
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: pain her. Ah well, to be sure, Yes, I see
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: what she means, turning to mister Knightley, and I will
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: try to hold my tongue. I must make myself very disagreeable,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: or she would not have said such a thing to
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: an old friend. I like your plan, cried mister Weston. Agreed, agreed,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: I will do my best. I am making a conundrum.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: How will a conundrum reckon lo? I am afraid, sir
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: very Low, answered his son. But we shall be indulgent,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: especially to any one who leads the way. No, no,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: said Emma. It will not reckon low. A conundrum of
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: mister Weston's shall clear him and his next neighbor. Come, sir,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: pray let me hear it. I doubt its being very
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: clever myself, said mister Weston. It is too much a
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: matter of fact. But here it is dot. What two
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: letters of the alphabet are there that express perfection? What
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: two letters express perfection? I am sure I do not know. Ah,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: you will never guess you to Emma, I am certain
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: will never guessed up. I will tell you dot m
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: and naedot emm A dat do you understand? Understanding and
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: gratification came together. It might be a very indifferent piece
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: of wit, but Emma found a great deal to laugh
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: at and enjoy in it, and so did Frank and Harriet.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: It did not seem to touch the rest of the
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: party equally. Some looked very stupid about it, and mister
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: Knightley gravely said, this explains the sort of clever thing
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: that is wanted. And mister Weston has done very well
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: for himself, but he must have knocked up everybody else.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Perfection should not have come quite so soon. Oh for myself,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: I protest. I must be excused, said missus Elton. I
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: really cannot tempt. I am not at all fond of
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: the sort of thing. I had an acrostic once sent
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: to me upon my own name, which I was not
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: at all pleased with. I knew who it came from,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: an abominable puppy. You know who I mean, nodding to
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: her husband. These kind of things are very well at
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: Christmas when one is sitting round the fire, but quite
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: out of place in my opinion when one is exploring
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: about the country in summer. Miss Woodhouse must excuse me.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: I am not one of those who have witty things
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: at every body's service. I do not pretend to be
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: a wit I have a great deal of vivacity in
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: my own way. But I really must be allowed to
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: judge when to speak and when to hold my tongue.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: Pass us, if you please, mister Churchill, pass, mister e Knightley,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: Jane and myself. We have nothing clever to say, not
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: one of us. Yes, yes, pray pass me, added her husband,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: with a sort of sneering consciousness. I have nothing to
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: say that I can entertain Miss Woodhouse or any other
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: young lady, an old married man quite good for nothing.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: Shall we walk Augusta with all my heart? I am
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: really tired of exploring so long on one spot. Come Jane,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: take my other arm. Jane declined it, however, and the
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: husband and wife walked off. Happy couple, said Frank Churchill
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: as soon as they were out of hearing. How well
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: they suit one another, very lucky, marrying as they did
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: upon an acquaintance formed only in a public place. They
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: only knew each other. I think a few weeks in
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: bath peculiarly lucky. For as to any real knowledge of
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: a person's disposition, that bath or any public place can give,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: it is all nothing. There can be no knowledge. It
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: is only by seeing women in their own homes, among
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: their own set, just as they always are, that you
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: all guess and luck, and will generally be ill luck.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: How many a man has committed himself on a short
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: acquaintance and rooted all the rest of his life. Miss Fairfax,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: who had seldom spoken before except among her own confederates,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: spoke now. Such things do occur, Undoubtedly. She was stopped
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: by a cough. Frank Churchill turned towards her to listen.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: You were speaking, said he gravely. She recovered her voice.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: I was only going to observe that, though such unfortunate
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: circumstances do sometimes occur, both to men and women, I
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: cannot imagine them to be very frequent. A hasty and
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: imprudent attachment may arise, but there is generally time to
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: recover from it Afterwards. I would be understood to mean
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: that it can be only weak, irresolute characters whose happiness
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: must be always at the mercy of chance, who will
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: suffer an unfortunate acquaintance to be an inconvenience an oppression forever?
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: He made no answer, merely looked and bowed in submission,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: and soon afterwards said, in a lively tone, Well, I
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: have so little confidence in my own judgment that whenever
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: I marry, I hope somebody will choose my wife for me.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: Will you, turning to Emma, will you choose a wife
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: for me? I am sure I should like any body
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: fixed on by you. You provide for the family. You know,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: with a smile at his father, find some body for me.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: I am in no hurry. Adopt her, educate her, and
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: make her like myself by all means. If you can,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: very well, I undertake the commission. You shall have a
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: charming wife. She must be very lively and have hazel eyes.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: I care for nothing else. I shall go abroad for
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: a couple of years, and when I return, I shall
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: come to you for my wife. Remember, Emma was in
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: no danger of forgetting. It was a commission to touch
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: every favorite feeling. Would not Harriet be the very creature
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: described hazel eyes? Accepted two years more might make her
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: all that he wished. He might even have Harriet in
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: his thoughts at the moment, who could say? Referring the
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: education to her seemed to imply it now, ma'am, said
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: Jane to her aunt, shall we join missus Elton, if
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: you please, my dear, with all my heart, I am
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: quite ready. I was ready to have gone with her,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: but this will do just as well. We shall soon
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: overtake her. There she is. No, that's somebody else. That's
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: one of the ladies in the Irish car party, not
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: at all like her. Dot well, I declare. They walked off,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: followed in half a minute by mister Knightley, mister Weston,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: his son. Emma and Harriet only remained, and the young
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: man's spirits now rose to a pitch almost unpleasant. Even
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: Emma grew tired at last of flattery and merriment, and
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: wished herself rather walking quietly about with any of the others,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: or sitting almost alone and quite unattended to, in tranquil
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: observation of the beautiful views beneath her. The appearance of
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: the servants looking out for them to give notice of
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: the carriages was a joyful sight, and even the bustle
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: of collecting and preparing to depart, and the solicitude of
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: missus Elton to have her carriage first, were gladly endured
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: in the prospect of the quiet drive home, which was
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: to close the very questionable enjoyments of this day of pleasure.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Such another scheme composed of so many ill assorted people,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: she hoped never to be betrayed into again. While waiting
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: for the carriage, she found mister Knightley by her side.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: He looked around as if to see that no one
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: were near, and then said, Emma, I must once more
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: speak to you as I have been used to do,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: a privilege rather endured than aloud, perhaps, but I must
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: still use it. I cannot see you acting wrong without
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: a remonstrance. How could you be so unfeeling to Miss Bates,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: How could you be so insolent in your wit to
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: a woman of her character, age, and situation? Emma, I
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: had not thought it possible, Emma recollected, blushed, was sorry,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: but tried to laugh it off. Nay, how could I
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: help saying what I did? Nobody could have helped it.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: It was not so very bad. I dare say she
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: did not understand me. I assure you she did. She
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: felt your full meaning she has talked of it since.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: I wish you could have heard how she talked of it,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: with what candor and generosity. I wish you could have
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: heard her honoring your forbearance in being able to pay
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: her such attentions as she was forever receiving from yourself
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: and your father, when her society must be so irksome. Oh,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: cried Emma. I know there is not a better creature
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: in the world. But you must allow that what is
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: good and what is ridiculous are most unfortunately blended. In
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: her they are blended, said he. I acknowledge, and was
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: she prosperous. I could allow much for the occasional prevalence
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: of the ridiculous over the good. Were she a woman
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: of fortune, I would leave every harmless absurdity to take
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: its chance. I would not quarrel with you for any
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: liberties of manner, were she your equal in situation. But Emma,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: consider how far this is from being the case. She
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: is poor, She has sunk from the comforts she was
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: born to, and if she lived to old age, must
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: probably sink more. Her situation should secure your compassion. It
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: was badly done. Indeed, you, whom she had known from
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: an infant whom she had seen grow up from a
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: period when her notice was an honor to have you, now,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: in thoughtless spirits and the pride of the moment, laugh
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: at her, humble her, and before her niece too, and
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: before others, many of whom, certainly some would be entirely
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: guided by your treatment of her. Dot. This is not
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: pleasant to you, Emma, and it is very far from
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: pleasant to me. But I must, I will. I will
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: tell you truths while I can satisfied with proving myself
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: your friend by very faithful counsel, and trusting that you will,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: some time or other do me greater justice than you
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: can do now. While they talked, they were advancing towards
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: the carriage. It was ready, and before she could speak again,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: he had handed her in. He had misinterpreted the feelings
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: which had kept her face averted and her tongue motionless.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: They were combined only of anger against herself, mortification, and
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: deep concern. She had not been able to speak, and,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: on entering the carriage, sunk back for a moment, overcome,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: then reproaching herself for having taken no leave, making no acknowledgment,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: parting in apparent sullenness. She looked out with voice and hand,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: eager to shew a difference, but it was just too late.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: He had turned away, and the horses were in motion.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: She continued to look back, but in vain, and soon,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: with what appeared unusual speed, they were half way down
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: the hill, and everything left far behind. She was vexed
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: beyond what could have been expressed, almost beyond what she
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: could conceal. Never had she felt so agitated, more grieved
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: at any circumstance in her life. She was most forcibly
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: struck the truth of this representation. There was no denying.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: She felt it at her heart. How could she have
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: been so brutal, so cruel to miss Bates, How could
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: she have exposed herself to such ill opinion in any
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: one she valued? And how suffer him to leave her
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, of common kindness.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: Time did not compose her, as she reflected more she seemed,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: but to feel it more. She never had been so depressed. Happily,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: it was not necessary to speak. There was only Harriet,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: who seemed not in spirits, herself faggied and very willing
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: to be silent and Emma felt the tears running down
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: her cheeks almost all the way home, without being at
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: any trouble to check them, extraordinary as they were. Chapter eight.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: The wretchedness of a scheme to box Hill was in
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: Emma's thoughts all the evening. How it might be considered
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: by the rest of the party, she could not tell. They,
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: in their different homes and their different ways, might be
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: looking back on it with pleasure. But in her view
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: it was a morning more completely mispent, more totally bare
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: of rational satisfaction at the time, and more to be
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: abhorred in recollection than any she had ever passed. A
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: whole evening of backgammon with her father was felicity to it.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: There indeed lay real pleasure, for there she was giving
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: up the sweetest hours of the twenty four to his comfort,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: and feeling that unmerited, as might be the degree of
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: his fond affection and confiding esteem, she could not, in
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: her general conduct, be open to any severe reproach. As
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: a daughter, she hoped she was not without a heart.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: She hoped no one could have said to her, how
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: could you be so unfeeling to your father? I must
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: I will tell you truths While I can miss Bates,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: should never again know never, if attention in future could
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: do away the past, she might hope to be forgiven.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: She had been often remiss. Her conscience told her so, remiss,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: perhaps more in thought than fact, scornful, ungracious, But it
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: should be so no more. In the warmth of true contrition.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: She would call upon her the very next morning, and
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: it should be the beginning on her side, of a regular, equal,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: kindly intercourse. She was just as determined when the morrow
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: came and went early, that nothing might prevent her. It
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: was not unlikely. She thought that she might see mister
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: Knightley in her way, or perhaps he might come in
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: while she were paying her visit. She had no objection.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: She would not be ashamed of the appearance of the
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: penitence so justly and truly hers. Her eyes were towards
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: Donwell as she walked, but she saw him not. The
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: ladies were all at home. She had never rejoiced at
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: the sound before, nor ever before entered the passage, nor
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: walked up the stairs with any wish of giving pleasure,
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: but in conferring obligaie or of deriving it. Except in
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: subsequent ridicule, there was a bustle on her approach, a
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: good deal of moving and talking. She heard Miss Bates's
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: voice something was to be done in a hurry. The
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: maid looked frightened and awkward, hoped she would be pleased
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: to wait a moment, and then ushered her in too soon.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: The aunt and niece seemed both escaping into the adjoining room.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: Jane she had a distinct glimpse of looking extremely ill,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: and before the door had shut them out, she heard
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: Miss Bates saying, well, my dear, I shall say you
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: are laid down upon the bed, and I am sure
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: you are ill enough. Poor old missus Bates, civil and
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: humble as usual, looked as if she did not quite
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: understand what was going on. I am afraid Jane is
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: not very well, said she, But I do not know.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: They tell me she is well. I dare say my
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: daughter will be here presently, Miss Woodhouse, I hope you
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: find a chair. I wish Hetty had not gone. I
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: am very little able. Have you a chair, ma'am? Do
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: you sit where you like? I am sure she will
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: be here presently, Emma seriously hoped she would. She had
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: a moment's fear of Miss Bates keeping away from her,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: but Miss Bates soon came very happy and obliged. But
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Emma's conscience told her that there was not the same
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: cheerful volubility as before, less ease of look and manner.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: A very friendly inquiry after Miss Fairfax, she hoped, might
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: lead the way to a return of old feelings. The
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: touch seemed immediate. Ah, Miss Woodhouse, how kind you are?
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: I suppose you have heard and are come to give
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: us joy. This does not seem much like joy, indeed
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: in me twinkling away a tear or two. But it
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: will be very trying for us to part with her
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: after having had her so long. And she has a
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: dreadful headache just now writing all the morning such long
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: letters you know, to be written to Colonel Campbell and
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: missus Dixon. My dear said, I you will blind yourself,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: for tears were in her eyes perpetually. One cannot wonder,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: one cannot wonder. It is a great change. And though
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: she is amazingly fortunate such a situation I suppose, as
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: no young woman before ever met with on first going out,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: do not think us ungrateful, Miss Woodhouse for such surprising
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: good fortune. Again dispersing her tears, but poor dear soul,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: if you were to see what a headache she has.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: When one is in great pain, you know one cannot
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: feel any blessing, quite as it may deserve. She is
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: as low as possible. To look at her. Nobody would
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: think how delighted and happy she is to have secured
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: such a situation. You will excuse her not coming to you.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: She is not able. She has gone into her own room.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: I want her to lie down upon the bed, my dear,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: said I. I shall say you are laid down upon
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: the bed. But however she is not. She is walking
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: about the room. But now that she has written her letters,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: she says, she shall soon be well. She will be
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: extremely sorry to missee you, miss Woodhouse, but your kindness
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: will excuse her. You were kept waiting at the door.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: I was quite ashamed, but somehow there was a little
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: bustle for it so happened that we had not heard
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: the knock until you were on the stairs. We did
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: not know any body was coming. It is only missus Cole, said,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: I depend upon it. Nobody else would come so early. Well,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: said she. It must be borne some time or other,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: and it may as well be now. But then Patty
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: came in and said it was you. Oh, said I,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: it is miss Woodhouse. I am sure you will like
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: to see her. I can see nobody, said she, And
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: up she got and would go away. And that was
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: what made us keep you waiting, and extremely sorry and
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: ashamed we were. If you must go, my dear said
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: I you must, and I will say you are laid
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: down upon the bed. Emma was most sincerely interested. Her
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: heart had long growing kinder towards Jane, and this picture
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: of her present sufferings acted as a cure of every
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: former ungenerous suspicion, and left her nothing but pity, and
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: the remembrance of the less just and less gentle sensations
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: of the past obliged her to admit that Jane might
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: very naturally resolve on seeing missus Cole or any other
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: steady friend when she might not bear to see herself.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: She spoke as she felt, with earnest regret and solicitude,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: sincerely wishing that the circumstances which she collected from Miss
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Bates to be now actually determined on, might be as
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: much for Miss Fairfax's advantage and comfort as possible. It
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: must be a severe trial to them all she had
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: understood it was to be delayed till Colonel Campbell's return.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: So very kind, replied Miss Bates, But you are always kind.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: There was no bearing such an always, And to break
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: through her dreadful gratitude, Emma made the direct inquiry of
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: where may I ask is Miss Fairfax going to a
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: Missus Smallridge, charming woman, most superior to have the charge
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: of her three little girls, delightful children. Impossible that any
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: situation could be more replete with comfort if we accept
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: perhaps Missus Suckling's own family and Missus Bragg's, but Missus
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: Smallridge is intimate with both, and in the very same neighborhood,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: lives only four miles from Maple Grove. Jane will be
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: only four miles from Maple Grove. Missus Elton, I suppose,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: has been the person to whom Miss Fairfax owes, yes,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: our good Missus Elton, the most indefatigable true friend. She
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: would not take a denial, She would not let Jane
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: say no. For when Jane first heard of it, it
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: was the day before yesterday, the very morning we were
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: at Donwell. When Jane first heard of it, she was
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: quite decided against accepting the offer, and for the reasons
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: you mention exactly as you say. She had made up
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: her mind to close with nothing till Colonel Campbell's return,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: and nothing should induce her to enter into any engagement
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: at present. And so she told Missus Elton over and
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: over again. And I am sure I had no more
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: idea that she would change her mind. But that good
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: Missus Elton, whose judgment never fails her, saw farther than
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: I did. It is not everybody that would have stood
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: out in such a kind way as she did, and
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: refused to take Jane's answer. But she positively declared she
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: would not write any such denial yesterday, as Jane wished her,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: she would wait. And sure enough, yesterday evening it was
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: all settled that Jane should go. Quite a surprise to me.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: I had not the least idea. Jane took Missus Elton
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: aside and told her at once that upon thinking over
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: the advantages of Missus Smallridge's situation, she had come to
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: the resolution of accepting it. I did not know a
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: word of it till it was all settled. You spent
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: the evening with Missus Elton. Yes, all of us. Missus
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: Elton would have us come. It was settled so upon
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: the hill while we were walking about with mister Knightley.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: You must all spend your evening with us, said she.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: I positively must have you all come. Mister Knightley was
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: there too, was he? No? Not mister Knightley. He declined
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: it from the first, And though I thought he would
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: come because missus Elton declared she would not let him off,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: he did not. But my mother and Jane and I
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: were all there, and a very agreeable evening. We had
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: such kind friends, you know, Miss Woodhouse, one must always
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: find agreeable. Though every body seemed rather fagged after the
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: morning's party, Even pleasure, you know, is fatiguing, and I
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: cannot say that any of them seemed very much to
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: have enjoyed it. However, I shall always think it a
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: very pleasant party and feel extremely obliged to the kind
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: friends who included me in it. Miss Fairfax, I suppose,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: though you were not aware of it, had been making
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: up her mind the whole day, I dare say she had.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: Whenever the time may come, it must be unwelcome to
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: her and all her friends. But I hope her engagement
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: will have every alleviation that is possible. I mean, as
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: to the character and manners of the family, thank you,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: dear Miss Woodhouse. Yes, indeed there is everything in the
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: world that can make her happy in it except the
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: sucklings and brags. There is not such another nursery establishment
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: so liberal and elegant in all Missus Elton's acquaintance, Missus Smallridge,
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: a most delightful woman, a style of living almost equal
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: to Maple Grove. And as to the children, except the
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: little sucklings and little brags, there are not such elegant
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: sweet children anywhere. Jane will be treated with such regard
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: and kindness. It will be nothing but pleasure, a life
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: of pleasure. Dot and her salary. I really cannot venture
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: to name her salary to you, Miss Woodhouse, even you,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: used as you are to great sums, would hardly believe
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: that so much could be given to a young person
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: like Jane. Ah Madam, cried Emma. If other children are
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: at all like what I remember to have been myself,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: I should think five times the amount of what I
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: have ever yet heard named as a seal on such
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: occasions dearly earned. You are so noble in your ideas.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: And when is Miss Fairfax to leave you very soon,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: very soon. Indeed, that's the worst of it. Within a fortnight,
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: Missus Smallridge is in a great hurry. My poor mother
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: does not know how to bear it. So then I
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: try to put it out of her thoughts and say, come, ma'am,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: do not let us think about it any more. Her
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: friends must all be sorry to lose her, and will
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: not Colonel and Missus Campbell be sorry to find that
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: she has engaged herself before their return. Yes, Jane says,
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: she is sure they will, But yet this is such
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: a situation as she cannot feel herself justified in declining.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: I was so astonished when she first told me what
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: she had been saying to Missus Elton, and when Missus Elton,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: at the same moment came congratulating me upon it. It
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: was before tea. Stay, no, it could not be before
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: tea because we were just going to cards. And yet
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: it was before tea, because I remember thinking, oh, no,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: now I recollect, now I have it. Something happened before tea,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: but not that mister Elton was called out of the
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: room before tea. Old John Abey's son wanted to speak
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: with him. Poor old John. I have a great regard
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: for him. He was clerk to my poor father twenty
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: seven years and now poor old man, he is bedridden
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: and very poorly with the rheumatic gout in his joints.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: I must go and see him to day, and so
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: will Jane, I am sure if she gets out at all.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: And poor John's son came to talk to mister Elton
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: about relief from the parish. He is very well to
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: do himself, you know, being head man at the Crown
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: Ostler and everything of that sort, but still he cannot
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: keep his father without some help. And so when mister
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: Elton came back, he told us what John Ostler had
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: been telling him. And then it came out about the
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: chaise having been sent to Randalls to take mister Frank
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: Churchill to Richmond. That was what happened before tea. It
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: was after tea that Jane spoke to missus Elton. Miss
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: Bates would hardly give Emma time to say how perfectly
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: new this circumstance was to her, But as without supposing
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: it possible that she could be ignorant of any of
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: the particulars of mister Frank Churchill's going, she proceeded to
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: give them all. It was of no consequence. What mister
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: Elton had learned from the Ostler on the subject, being
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: the accumulation of the ostler's own knowledge and the knowledge
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: of the servants at Randall's, was that a messenger had
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: come over from Richmond soon after the return of the
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: party from box Hill, which messenger, however, had been no
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: more than was expected, And that mister Churchill had sent
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: his nephew a few lines, containing upon the whole a
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: tolerable account of Missus Churchill, and only wishing him not
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: to delay coming back beyond the next morning early. But
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: that mister Frank Churchill, having resolved to go home directly
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: got a cold, Tom, had been sent off immediately for
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: the crowned Chaise, and the Ostler had stood out and
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: seen it pass by, the boy, going at good pace
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: and driving there very steady. There was nothing in all
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma's
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: attention only as it united with the subject which already
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: engaged her mind. The contrast between Missus Churchill's importance in
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: the world and Jane Fairfax's struck her. One was everything,
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: the other nothing. And she sat musing on the difference
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: of woman's destiny, and quite unconscious on what her eyes
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: were fixed till roused by Miss Bates's saying, I I
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: see what you are thinking of the Pianoforte. What is
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: to become of that? Very true? Poor dear Jane was
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: talking of it. Just now. You must go, said she,
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: You and I must part. You will have no business here.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: Dot Let it stay, however, said she, give it house
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: room till Colonel Campbell comes back. I shall talk about
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: it to him. He will settle for me. He will
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: help me out of all my difficulties. And to this
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: day I do believe she knows not whether it was
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: his present or his daughter's. Now Emma was obliged to
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: think of the Pianoforte, and the remembrance of all her
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: former fanciful and unfair conjectures was so little pleasing that
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: she soon allowed herself to believe her visit had been
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: long enough, and with a repetition of everything that she
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: could venture to say of the good wishes which she
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: really felt, took leave. Chapter nine. Emma's pensive meditations as
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: she walked home were not interrupted, but on entering the parlor,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: she found those who must rouse her. Mister Knightley and
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: Harriet had arrived during her absence and were sitting with
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: her father. Mister Knightley immediately got up, and, in a
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: manner decidedly graver than usual, said, would not go away
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: without seeing you. But I have no time to spare,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: and therefore must now be gone directly. I am going
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: to London to spend a few days with John and Isabella.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: Have you anything to send or say besides the love
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: which nobody carries? Nothing at all? But is not this
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: a sudden scheme? Yes? Rather, I have been thinking of
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: it some little time. Emma was sure he had not
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: forgiven her. He looked unlike himself. Time, however, she thought,
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: would tell him that they ought to be friends again.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: While he stood as if meaning to go, but not going,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: her father began his inquiries, Well, my dear, and did
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: you get there safely? And how did you find my
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: worthy old friend and her daughter? I dare say they
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: must have been very much obliged to you for coming.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: Dear Emma has been to call on Missus and miss Bates.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: Mister Knightley. As I told you before, she is always
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: so attentive to them. Emma's color was heightened by this
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: unjust praise, and with a smile and shake of the
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: head which spoke much, she looked at mister knightleedot. It
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: seemed as if there were an instantaneous impression in her favor,
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: as if his eyes received the truth from hers, and
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: all that had passed of good and her feelings were
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: at once caught and honored. He looked at her with
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: a glow of regard. She was warmly gratified, and in
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: another moment still more so, by a little movement and
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: of more than common friendliness on his partner. He took
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: her hand. Whether she had not herself made the first motion,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: she could not say. She might perhaps have rather offered it.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: But he took her hand, pressed it, and certainly was
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: on the point of carrying it to his lips, when
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: from some fancy or other he suddenly let it go. Dot.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: Why he should feel such a scruple, why he should
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: change his mind when it was all but done, she
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: could not perceive. Dot. He would have judged better, she thought,
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: if he had not stopped. The intention, however, was indubitable.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: And whether it was that his manners had in general,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: so little gallantry, or however else it happened, But she
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: thought nothing became him Morda. It was with him of
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: so simple, yet so dignified and natured Dot. She could
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: not but recall the attempt with great satisfaction. It spoke
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: such perfect amity. Dot. He left them immediately afterwards, gone
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: in a moment. He always moved with the alertness of
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: a mind which could neither be undecided nor dilatory, But
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: now he seemed more sudden than usual in his disappearance.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: Emma could not regret her having gone to Miss Bates,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: but she wished she had left her ten minutes earlier.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: It would have been a great pleasure to talk over
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: Jane Fairfax's situation with mister Knightley Dot. Neither would she
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: regret that he should be going to Brunswick Square, for
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: she knew how much his visit would be enjoyed. But
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: it might have happened at a better time, and to
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: have had longer notice of it would have been pleasanter Dot.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: They parted thorough friends. However, she could not be deceived
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: as to the meaning of his countenance and his unfinished gallantry.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: It was all done to assure her that she had
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: fully recovered his good opinion. He had been sitting with
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: them half an hour. She found it was a pity
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: that she had not come back earlier, in the hope
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: of diverting her father's thoughts from the disagreeableness of mister
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: Knightley's going to London, and going so suddenly, and going
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: on horseback, which she knew would be all very bad.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: Emma communicated her news of Jane Fairfax, and her dependence
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: on the effect was justified. It supplied a very useful
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: check in interested without disturbing him. He had long made
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: up his mind to Jane Fairfax's going out as Governess,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: and could talk of it cheerfully, but mister Knightley's going
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: to London had been an unexpected blow. I am very glad,
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: indeed my dear to hear she is to be so
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: comfortably settled. Missus Elton is very good natured and agreeable,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: and I dare say her acquaintance are just what they
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: ought to be. I hope it is a dry situation
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: and that her health will be taken good care of.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: It ought to be a first object, as I am
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: sure poor miss Taylor's always was with me. You know,
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: my dear, she is going to be to this new
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: lady what Miss Taylor was to us, And I hope
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: she will be better off in one respect and not
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: be induced to go away after it has been her
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: home so long. The following day brought news from Richmond
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: to throw everything else into the background. An express arrived
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: at Randall's to announce the death of missus Churchill. Though
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: her nephew had had no particular reason to hasten back
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: on her account, she had not lived above six and
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: thirty hours after his return, a sudden seizure of a
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: different nature from any thing foreboded by her general state
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: had carried her off. After a short struggle, the great
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: Missus Churchill was no more. It was felt, as such
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: things must be felt. Every body had a degree of
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: gravity and sorrow, tenderness towards the departed, solicitude for the
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: surviving friends, and in a reasonable time, curiosity to know
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: where she would be buried. Goldsmith tells us that when
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: but to die, and when she stoops to be disagreeable,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: ill fame. Missus Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances. In
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: one point, she was fully justified. She had never been
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: admitted before to be seriously ill. The event acquitted her
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: of all the fancifulness and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: Poor Missus Churchill, no doubt she had been suffering a
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: great deal, more than any body had ever supposed, and
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: continual pain would try the temper. It was a sad event,
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: a great shock, with all her faults. What would mister
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: Churchill do without her? Mister Churchill's loss would be dreadful. Indeed,
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: mister Churchill would never get over it. Even mister Weston
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: shook his head and looked solemn and said, awe, poor
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: woman who would have thought it, And resolved that his
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: morning should be as handsome as possible. And his wife
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: sat sighing and moralsing over her broad hems with a
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: commiseration and good sense, true and steady. How it would
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: affect Frank was among the earliest thoughts of both. It
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: was also a very early speculation with Emma the character
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: of Missus Churchill. The grief of her husband. Her mind
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: glanced over them both with awe and compassion, and then
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: rested with lightened feelings on how Frank might be affected
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: by the event, how benefited, how freed. She saw in
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: a moment all the possible good. Now an attachment to
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: Harriet Smith would have nothing to encounter. Mister Churchill, independent
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: of his wife, was feared by nobody, an easy, guidable
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: man to be persuaded into any thing by his nephew.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: All that remained to be wished was that the nephew
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: should form the attachment, as with all her good will
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: and the cause. Emma could feel no certainty of its
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: being already formed. Harriet behaved extremely well on the occasion,
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: with great self command. Whatever she might feel of brighter hope,
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: she betrayed nothing. Emma was gratified to observe such a
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: proof in her of strengthened character, and refrain from any
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: allusion that might endanger its maintenance. They spoke therefore, of
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: missus Churchill's death with mutual forbearance. Short letters from Frank
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: were received at Randall's, communicating all that was immediately important
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: of their state and plans. Mister Churchill was better than
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: could be expected, and their first removal on the departure
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: of the funeral for Yorkshire was to be to the
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: house of a very old friend in Windsor, to whom
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: mister Churchill had been promising a visit the last ten years.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: At present there was nothing to be done for Harriet.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: Good wishes for the future were all that could yet
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: be possible. On Emma's side, it was a more pressing
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: concern to shee attention to Jane Fairfax, whose prospects were
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: closing while Harriet's opened, and whose engagements now allowed of
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: no delay in any one at Highbury who wished to
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: shee her kindness, and with Emma it was grown into
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: a first wish. She had scarcely a stronger regret than
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: for her past coldness, and the person whom she had
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: been so many months neglecting was now the very one
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: on whom she would have lavished every distinction of regard
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: or sympathy. She wanted to be of use to her,
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: wanted to shew a value for her society and testify
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: respect and consideration. She resolved to prevail on her to
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: spend a day at Hartfield. A note was written to
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: urge it. The invitation was refused and by a verbal man.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: Miss Fairfax was not well enough to write, and when
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: mister Perry called at Hartfield the same morning, it appeared
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: that she was so much indisposed as to have been visited,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: though against her own consent by himself, and that she
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: was suffering under severe headaches and a nervous fever, to
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: a degree which made him doubt the possibility of her
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: going to missus Smallridge's at the time proposed. Her health
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: seemed for the moment completely deranged, appetite quite gone, and
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: though there were no absolutely alarming symptoms, nothing touching the
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: pulmonary complaint, which was the standing apprehension of the family.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: Mister Perry was uneasy about her. He thought she had
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: undertaken more than she was equal to, and that she
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: felt it so herself, though she would not own it.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: Her spirits seemed overcome. Her present home he could not
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: but observe was unfavorable to a nervous disorder, confined always
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: to one room, he could have wished it otherwise. And
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: her good aunt, though his very old friend, he must acknowledge,
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: to be not the best companion for an invalid of
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: that description. Her care and attention could not be questioned.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: They were, in fact only too great. He very much
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: feared that Miss Fairfax derived more evil than good from them.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: Emma listened with the warmest concern, grieved for her more
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: and more, and looked around, eager to discover some way
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: of being useful to take her. Be it only an
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: hour or two from her aunt to give her change
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: of air and scene and quiet, rational conversation, even for
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: an hour or two might do her good. And the
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: following morning she wrote again to say, in the most
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: feeling language she could command, that she would call for
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: her in the carriage at any hour that Jane would name,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: mentioning that she had mister Perry's decided opinion in favor
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: of such exercise for his patient. The answer was only
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: in this short note Miss Fairfax's compliments and thanks, but
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: is quite unequal to any exercise. Emma felt that her
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: own note had deserved something better. But it was impossible
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: to quarrel with words whose tremulous inequalities shewed indisposition so plain,
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: and she thought only of how she might best counteract
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: this unwillingness to be seen or assisted in spite of
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: the answer. Therefore, she ordered the carriage and drove to
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: missus Bates's in the hope that Jane would be induced
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: to join her. But it would not do. Miss Bates
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: came to the carriage door, all gratitude and agreeing with
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: her most earnestly in thinking and erring might be of
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: the greatest service. And everything that message could do was tried,
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: but all in vain. Miss Bates was obliged to return
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: without success. Jane was quite unpersuadable. The mere proposal of
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: going out seemed to make her worsett Emma wished she
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: could have seen her and tried her own powers, But
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: almost before she could hint the wish, Miss Bates made
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: it appear that she had promised her niece on no
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: account to let miss woodhouse in. Indeed, the truth was
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: that poor dear Jane could not bear to see any body,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: any body at all. Missus Elton indeed could not be denied,
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: and Missus Cole had made such a point, and Missus
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: Perry had said so much. But except them, Jane would
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: really see nobody. Emma did not want to be classed
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: with the missus Elton's, the missus Perry's, and the missus Coles,
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: who would force themselves anywhere, neither could she feel any
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: right of preference herself. She submitted therefore, and only questioned
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: Miss Bates farther as to her niece's appetite and diet,
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: which she longed to be able to assist on that subject,
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: Poor Miss Bates was very unhappy and very communicative. Jane
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: would hardly eat anything mister Perry recommended nourishing food, but
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: everything they could command, and never had any body such
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: good neighbors was distasteful. Emma, on reaching home, called the
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: housekeeper directly to an examination of her stores, and some
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: arra root of very superior quality was speedily despatched to
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: Miss Bates with a most friendly note. In half an hour,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: the arra root was returned with a thousand thanks from
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: Miss Bates, but dear Jane would not be satisfied without
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: its being sent back. It was a thing she could
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: not take, and moreover she insisted on her, saying that
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: she was not at all in want of anything. When
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: Emma afterwards heard that Jane Fairfax had been seen wandering
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: about the meadows at some distance from Highbury on the
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: afternoon of the very day on which she had under
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: the plea of being unequal to any exercise, so peremptorily
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: refused to go out with her in the carriage. She
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: could have no doubt, putting everything together, that Jane was
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: resolved to receive no kindness from her. She was sorry,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: very sorry. Her heart was grieved for a state which
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: seemed but the more pitiable from this sort of irritation
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: of spirits, inconsistency of action, and inequality of powers. And
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: it mortified her that she was given so little credit
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: for proper feeling, or esteemed so little worthy as a friend.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: But she had the consolation of knowing that her intentions
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: were good, and of being able to say to herself
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: that could mister Knightley have been privy to all her
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: attempts of assisting Jane Fairfax, could he even have seen
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: into her heart? He would not, on this occasion, have
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: found anything to reprove. Chapter ten. One morning, about ten
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: days after missus Churchill's decease, Emma was called downstairs to
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: mister Weston, who could not stay five minutes and wanted
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: particularly to speak with her. He met her at the
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: parlor door, and hardly asking her how she did in
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: the natural key of his voice, sunk it immediately to say,
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: unheard by her father, can you come to Randall's at
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: any time this morning? Do if it be possible? Missus
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: Weston wants to see you. She must see you. Is
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: she unwell? No, no, not at all, only a little agitated.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: She would have ordered the carriage and come to you.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: But she must see you alone, and that you know.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: Nodding towards her father, humph, can you come certainly this moment,
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: if you please. It is impossible to refuse what you
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: ask in such a way. But what can be the matter?
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: Is she really not ill? Depend upon me? But ask
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: no more questions. You will know it all in time.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: The most unaccountable business. But hush, hush. To guess what
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: all this meant was impossible even for Emma. Something really
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: important seemed announced by his looks. But as her friend
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: was well, she endeavored not to be uneasy, and settling
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: it with her father that she would take her walk now,
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: she and mister Weston were soon out of the house
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: together and on their way at a quick pace for Randall's. Now,
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: said Emma, when they were fairly beyond the sweep gates. Now,
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: mister Weston, do let me know what has happened. No, no,
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: he gravely replied, don't ask me. I promised my wife
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: to leave it all to her. She will break it
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: to you better than I can do. Not be impatient, Emma,
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: it will all come out too soon. Break it to me,
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: cried Emma, standing still with tera. Dot, good God, mister Weston,
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: tell me at once to something has happened in Brunswick Square.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: I know it has. Tell me I charge you tell
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: me this moment what it is. No, indeed, you are mistaken,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: mister Weston. Do not trifle with me. Dot. Consider how
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: many of my dearest friends are now in Brunswick Square.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: Which of them is it? I charge you, by all
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: that is sacred not to attempt concealment upon my word, Emma,
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: your word? Why not your honor? Why not say upon
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: your honor that it has nothing to do with any
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: of them? Good heavens, what can be to be broke
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: to me that does not relate to one of that family?
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Upon my honor said he very seriously, it does not.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: It is not in the smallest degree connected with any
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: human being of the name of Knightly. Emma's courage returned
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: and she walked on. I was wrong he continued, in
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: talking of its being broke to you, I should not
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: have used the expression. In fact, it does not concern you.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: It concerns only myself. That is we hope dot humph.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: In short, my dear Emma, there is no occasion to
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: be so uneasy about it. I don't say that it
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: is not a disagreeable business, but things might be much
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: worse to If we walk fast, we shall soon be
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: at Randall's. Emma found that she must wait, and now
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: it required little effort. She asked no more questions, therefore
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: merely employed her own fancy, and that soon pointed out
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: to her the probability of its being some money concern,
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: something just come to light of a disagreeable nature in
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: the circumstances of the family, something which the late event
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: at Richmond had brought forward. Her fancy was very active,
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: half a dozen natural children perhaps, and poor Frank cut off. This,
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: though very undesirable, would be no matter of agony to her.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: It inspired little more than an animating curiosity. Who is
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: that gentleman on horseback? Said she as they proceeded, speaking
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: more to assist mister Weston in keeping his secret than
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: with any other view. I do not know dot one
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: of the otways. Dot not Frank. It is not Frank.
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: I assure you you will not see him. He is
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: half way to Windsor by this time. Has your son
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: been with you? Then? Oh? Yes, did not you know? Well? Well,
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: never mind for a moment he was silent, and then added,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: in a tone much more guarded and demure, Yes, Frank
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: came over this morning just to ask us how we did.
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: They hurried on and were speedily at randals. Dot well,
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: my dear, said he as they entered the room. I
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: have brought her, and now I hope you will soon
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: be better. I shall leave you together. There is no
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: use in delay. I shall not be far off if
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: you want me. And Emma distinctly heard him add in
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: a lower tone before he quitted the room, I have
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: been as good as my word. She is not the
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: least idea missus. Weston was looking so ill and had
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: an air of so much perturbation that Emma's uneasiness in
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: In the moment they were alone, she eagerly said, what
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: is it, my dear friend, Something of a very unpleasant
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: nature I find has occurred. Do let me know directly
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: what it is. I have been walking all this way
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: in complete suspense. We both abhor suspense. Do not let
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: mine continue longer. It will do you good to speak
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: of your distress, whatever it may be. Have you indeed
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: no idea? Said Missus Weston in a trembling voice. Cannot you,
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: my dear Emma, cannot you form a guess as to
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: what you are to hear? So far as that it
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: relates to mister Frank Churchill? I do guess you are right?
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: It does relate to him, and I will tell you directly.
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: Resuming her work and seeming resolved against looking up. He
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: has been here this very morning on a most extraordinary
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: errand it is impossible to express our surprise. He came
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: to speak to his father on a subject to announce
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: an attachment. She stopped to breathe. Emma thought first of herself,
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: and then of Harriet. More than an attachment, indeed, resumed
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston. An engagement, a positive engagement. What will you say, Emma?
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: What will any body say when it is known that
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: Frank Churchill and miss Fairfax are engaged? Nay, that they
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: have been long engaged? Emma even jumped with surprise and horror.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: Struck exclaimed Jane Fairfax. Good God, you are not serious.
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: You do not mean it. You may well be amazed,
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: returned missus Weston, still averting her eyes and talking on
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: with eagerness that Emma might have time to recover. You
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: may well be amazed. But it is even so. There
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: has been a solemn engagement between them ever since October,
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: formed at Weymouth, and kept a secret from every body,
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: not a creature knowing it but themselves, neither the Campbells,
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: nor her family, nor his Dot. It is so wonderful that,
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: though perfectly convinced of the fact, it is yet almost
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: incredible to myself, I can hardly believe it. Dot. I
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: thought I knew him. Emma scarcely heard what was said Dot.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: Her mind was divided between two ideas, her own former
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: conversations with him about Miss Fairfax and poor Harriet, and
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: for some time she could only exclaim and require confirmation,
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: repeated confirmation. Well said she at last, trying to recover herself.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: This is a circumstance which I must think of at
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: least half a day before I can at all comprehend
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: it what engaged to her all the winter before either
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: of them came to Highbury. Engaged since October, secretly engaged.
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: It has hurt me, Emma, very much. It has hurt
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: his father equally. Some part of his conduct we cannot excuse.
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: Emma pondered a moment, and then replied, I will not
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: pretend not to understand you, and to give you all
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: the relief in my power, be assured that no such
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: effect has followed his attentions to me, as you are
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: apprehensive of. Missus Weston looked up afraid to believe. But
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: Emma's countenance was as steady as her words. That you
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: may have less difficulty in believing this boast of my
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: present perfect indifference. She continued, I will farther tell you
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: that there was a period in the early part of
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: our acquaintance when I did like him, when I was
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: very much disposed to be attached to him, nay was attached,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: And how it came to cease is perhaps the wonder. Fortunately,
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: however it did cease, I have really, for some time
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: passed for at least these three months, cared nothing about him.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: You may believe me, Missus Weston, This is the simple truth.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston kissed her with tears of joy, and when
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: she could find utterance assured her that this Protestation had
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: done her more good than anything else in the world
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: could do. Mister Weston, will be almost as much relieved
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: as myself, said she. On this point, we have been wretched.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: It was our darling wish that you might be attached
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: to each other, and we were Persusa waited that it
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: was so. Dot imagine what we have been feeling on
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: your account. I have escaped, and that I should escape
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: may be a matter of grateful wonder to you and myself.
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: But this does not acquit him, missus Weston, And I
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: must say that I think him greatly to blame. What
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: right had he to come among us with affection and
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: faith engaged, and with manners so very disengaged? What right
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: had he to endeavor to please as he certainly did,
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: to distinguish any one young woman with persevering attention as
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: he certainly did, while he really belonged to another. How
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: could he tell what mischief he might be doing? How
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: could he tell that he might not be making me
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: in love with him? Very wrong, very wrong, indeed, from
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: something that he said, My dear Emma, I rather imagine,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: and how could she bear such behavior? Composure with a
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: witness to look on while repeated attentions were offering to
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: another woman before her face, and not resented. Dot. That
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: is a degree of placidity which I can neither comprehend
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: nor respect. There were misunderstandings between them, Emma, he said
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: so expressly. He had not time to enter into much explanation.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: He was here only a quarter of an hour, and
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: in a state of agitation which did not allow the
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: full use even of the time he could stay. But
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: that there had been misunderstandings, he decidedly said. The present
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: crisis indeed seemed to be brought on by them, and
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: those misunderstandings might very possibly arise from the impropriety of
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: his conduct. Impropriety, Oh, missus Weston, it is too calm
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: a censure, much much beyond impropriety. It has sunk him.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: I cannot say how it has sunk him. In my opinion,
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: so unlike what a man should be, none of that
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: disdain of trick and littleness, which a man should display
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: in every transaction of his life. Nay, dear Emma, Now
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: I must take his part, for though he has been
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: wrong in this instance. I have known him long enough
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: to answer for his having many, very many good qualities
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: and good God, cried Emma, not attending to her dot
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: Missus Smallridge too, Jane actually on the point of going
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: as governess. What could he mean by such horrible indelicacy
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: to suffer her to engage herself, to suffer her even
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: to think of such a measure? He knew nothing about it, Emma.
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: On this article, I can fully acquit him. It was
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: a private resolution of hers, not communicated to him, or
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: at least not communicated in a way to carry conviction
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: till yesterday. I know. He said he was in the
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: dark as to her plans. They burst on him, I
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: do not know how, but by some letter or message.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: And it was the discovery of what she was doing,
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: of this very project of hers, which determined him to
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: come forward at once, own it all to his uncle,
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: throw himself on his kindness, and in short put an
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: end to the miserable state of concealment that had been
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: carrying on so long. Emma began to listen, and better
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: I am to hear from him, soon, continued Missus Weston.
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: He told me at parting that he should soon write,
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: and he spoke in a manner which seemed to promise
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: me many particulars that could not be given. Now let
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: us wait therefore for this letter. It may bring many extenuations.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: It may make many things intelligible and excusable, which now
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: are not to be understood. Don't let us be severe,
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: Don't let us be in a hurry to condemn him.
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: Let us have patience. I must love him. And now
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: that I am satisfied on one point, the one material point,
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: I am sincerely anxious for its all turning out well,
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: and ready to hope that it may. They must both
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: have suffered a great deal under such a system of
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: secrecy and concealment. His sufferings, replied Emma dryly, do not
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: appear to have done him much harm? Well? And how
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: did mister Churchill take it most favorably? For his nephew
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: gave his consent with scarcely a difficulty conceive what the
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: events of a week have done in that family while
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: poor missus Churchill lived, I suppose there could not have
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: been a hope, a chance, a possibility. But scarcely are
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: her remains at rest in the family vault than her
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: husband is persuaded to act exactly opposite to what she
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: would have required. What a blessing it is when undue
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: influence does not survive the grave. He gave his consent
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: with very little persuasion, AH thought Emma, he would have
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: done as much for Harriet. This was settled last night,
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: and Frank was off with the light this morning. He
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: stopped at Highbury at the Bates's, I fancy some time,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: and then came on hither, but was in such a
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: hurry to get back to his uncle, to whom he
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: is just now more necessary than ever, that, as I
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: tell you, he could stay with us but a quarter
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: of an hour dot. He was very much agitated, very much, indeed,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: to a degree that made him appear quite a different
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: creature from anything I had ever seen him before. In
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: addition to all the rest, there had been the shock
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: of finding her so very unwell, which he had had
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: no previous suspicion of, And there was every appearance of
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: his having been feeling a great deal. And do you
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: really believe the affair to have been carrying on with
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: such perfect secrecy. The Campbell's, the Dixons, did none of
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: them know of the engagement Emma could not speak the
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: name of Dixon without a little blush. None, not one.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: He positively said that it had been known to no
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: being in the world, but their two selves. Well, said Emma,
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: I suppose we shall gradually grow reconciled to the idea,
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: and I wish them very happy. But I shall always
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: think it a very abominable sort of proceeding. What has
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit, espionage
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: and treachery too come among us, with professions of openness
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: and simplicity, and such a league in secret to judge
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: us all. Here have we been the whole winter and spring,
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: completely duped, fancying ourselves all on an equal footing of
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: truth and honor, with two people in the midst of us,
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: who may have been carrying round, comparing and sitting in
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: jail judgment on sentiments and words that were never meant
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: for both to hear. Dot they must take the consequence
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: if they have heard each other spoken of in a
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: way not perfectly agreeable. I am quite easy on that head,
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: replied missus Weston. I am very sure that I never
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: said anything of either to the other which both might
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: not have heard. You are in luck. Dot, your only
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: blunder was confined to my ear when you imagined a
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: certain friend of ours in love with the lady. True,
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: But as I have always had a thoroughly good opinion
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: of Miss Fairfax, I never could, under any blunder have
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: spoken ill of her. And as to speaking ill of him,
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: there I must have been safe. At this moment. Mister
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: Weston appeared at a little distance from the window, evidently
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: on the watch. His wife gave him a look which
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: invited him in, and while he was coming round, added, now,
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: dearest Emma, let me entreat you to say and look
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: everything that may set his heart at ease and incline
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: him to be satisfied with the match. Let us make
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: the best of it. And indeed, all amost everything may
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: be fairly said in her favor. It is not a
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: connection to gratify. But if mister Churchill does not feel that,
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: why should we, And it may be a very fortunate
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: circumstance for him. For Frank, I mean that he should
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: have attached himself to a girl of such steadiness of
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: character and good judgment as I have always given her
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: credit for, and still am disposed to give her credit for.
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: In spite of this one great deviation from the strict
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: rule of right, and how much may be said in
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: her situation for even that error, much indeed, cried Emma feelingly.
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: If a woman can ever be excused for thinking only
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: of herself, it is in a situation like Jane Fairfax's dot.
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: Of such one may almost say that the world is
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: not theirs, nor the world's law. She met mister Weston
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: on his entrance with a smiling countenance, exclaiming, a very
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: pretty trick you have been playing me. Upon my word,
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: this was a device I suppose to sport with my
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: curiosity and exercise my talent of guessing. But you really
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: frightened me. I thought you had lost half your property
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: at least. And here, instead of its being a matter
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: of condolence, it turns out to be one of congratulation.
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: I congratulate you, mister Weston, with all my heart, on
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: the prospect of having one of the most lovely and
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: accomplished young women in England for your daughter. A glance
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: or two between him and his wife convinced him that
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: all was as right as this speech proclaimed, and its
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: happy effect on his spirits was immediate. His air and
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: voice recovered their usual briskness. He shook her heartily and
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: gratefully by the hand, and entered on the subject in
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: a manner to prove that he now only wanted time
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 1: and persuasion to think the engagement no very bad thing.
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: His companion suggested only what could palliate imprudence or smooth objections,
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: And by the time they had talked it all over together,
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: and he had talked it all over again with Emma
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: in their walk back to Hartfield, he was become perfectly reconciled,
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: and not far from thinking it the very best thing
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: that Frank could possibly have done. Chapter eleven. Harriet, Poor Harriet.
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: Those were the words. In them lay the tormenting ideas
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: the real misery of the business to her. Frank Churchill
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: had behaved very ill by herself, very ill in many ways,
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: but it was not so much as behavior as her
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: own which made her so angry with him. It was
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: the scrape which he had drawn her into on Harriet's
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: account that gave the deepest hue to his offense, stuck
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: poor Harriet to be a second time the dupe of
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: her misconceptions and flattery. Mister Knightley had spoken prophetically when
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: he once said, Emma, you have been no friend to
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: Harriet Smith. She was afraid she had done her nothing
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: but disservicedut. It was true that she had not to
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: charge herself in this instance, as in the former, with
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: being the sole and original author of the mischief, with
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: having suggested such feelings as might otherwise never have entered
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: Harriet's imagination. For Harriet had acknowledged her admiration and preference
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: of Frank Churchill before she had ever given her a
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: hint on the subject. But she felt completely guilty of
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: having encouraged what she might have repressed. She might have
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: prevented the indulgence and increase of such sentiments. Her influence
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: would have been enough, and now she was very conscious
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: that she ought to have prevented them. Dot. She felt
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: insufficient grounds. Common sense would have directed her to tell
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: Harriet that she must not allow herself to think of him,
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: and that there were five hundred chances to one against
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: his ever caring for her dot. But with common sense,
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: she added, I am afraid I have had little to do.
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: She was extremely angry with herself. If she could not
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: have been angry with Frank Churchill too, it would have
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: been dreadful. As for Jane Fairfax, she might at least
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: relieve her feelings from any present solicitude on her account.
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: Harriet would be anxiety enough. She need no longer be
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: unhappy about Jane, whose troubles and whose ill health, having
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: of course the same origin, must be equally under Curdat.
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: Her days of insignificance and evil were Overdot she would
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: soon be well and happy and prosperous to Emma could
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: now imagine why her own attentions had been slighted. This
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: discovery laid many smaller matters open. No doubt it had
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: been from jealousy Dot. In Jane's eyes, she had been
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: a rival, and well might anything she could offer of
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: assistance or regard be repulsed. An airing in the Hartfield
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: carriage would have been the rack. An arrow root from
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison. She understood it all,
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: and as far as her mind could disengage itself from
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: the injustice and selfishness of angry feelings, she acknowledged that
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: Jane Fairfax would have neither elevation nor happiness beyond her desert.
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge there was
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: little sympathy to be spared for anybody else. Emma was
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: sadly fearful that this second disappointment would be more severe
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: than the first, considering the very superior claims of the
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: object it ought, and judging by its apparently stronger effect
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: on Harriet's mind producing reserve and self command, it would
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: that she must communicate the painful truth. However, and as
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: soon as possible. An injunction of secrecy had been among
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: mister Weston's parting words. For the present. The whole affair
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: was to be completely a secret. Mister Churchill had made
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: a point of it as a token of respect to
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: the wife he had so very recently lost, and everybody
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: admitted it to be no more than due decorum Emma
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: had promised. But still Harriet must be accepted. It was
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: her superior duty. In spite of her vexation, she could
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: not help feeling it almost ridiculous that she should have
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: the very same distressing and delicate office to perform by
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: Harriet which Missus Weston had just gone through By herself
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: the intelligence which had been so anxiously announced to her,
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: she was now to be anxiously announcing to another her
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: heart beat quick on hearing Harriet's footstep and voice, So
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: she supposed, had poor missus Weston felt, when she was
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: approaching Randal's. Could the event of the disclosure bear an
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: equal resemblance? But of that, unfortunately, there could be no chance. Well,
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: miss Woodhouse, cried Harriet, coming eagerly into the room. Is
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: not this the oddest news that ever was? What news
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: do you mean? Replied Emma, unable to guess by look
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: or voice whether Harriet could indeed have received any hint
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: about Jane Fairfax? Did you ever hear anything so strange? Oh?
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: You need not be afraid of owning it to me,
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: for mister Weston has told me himself. I met him
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: just now. He told me it was to be a
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: great secret, and therefore should not think of mentioning it
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: to any body but you. But he said you knew it.
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: What did mister Weston tell you, said Emma, still perplexed. Oh,
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: he told me all about it, that Jane Fairfax and
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: mister Frank Churchill are to be married, and that they
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: have been privately engaged to one another this long while.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: How very odd it was, indeed so odd. Harriet's behavior
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: was so extremely odd that Emma did not know how
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: to understand it. Her character appeared absolutely changed. She seemed
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: to propose, shewing no agitation or disappointment or peculiar concern
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: in the discovery. Emma looked at her, quite unable to speak.
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: Had you any idea, cried Harriet of his being in
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: love with her? You? Perhaps, might you? Blushing as she spoke,
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: who can see into every body's heart but nobody else?
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: Upon my word, said Emma, I begin to doubt my
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: having any such talent. Can you seriously ask me, Harriet,
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: whether I imagined him attached to another woman at the very
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: time that I was tacitly, if not openly, encouraging you
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: to give way to your own feelings. I never had
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: the slightest suspicion till within the last hour of mister
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: Frank Churchill's having the least regard for Jane Fairfax. You
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: may be very sure that if I had, I should
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: have cautioned you. Accordingly, me, cried Harriet, coloring and astonished,
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: Why should you caution me? You do not think I
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: care about mister Frank Churchill. I am delighted to hear
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: you speak so stoutly on the subject, replied Emma, smiling.
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: But you do not mean to deny that there was
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: a time, and not very distant either, when you gave
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: me reason to understand that you did care about him
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: him never never, dear miss Woodhouse, how could you so
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: mistake me? Turning away? Distressed, Harriet cried Emma, after a
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: moment's pause, what do you mean, good Heaven, what do
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: you mean mistake you? Am I to suppose? Then she
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: could not speak another word dot Her voice was lost,
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: and she sat down, waiting in great terror till Harriet
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: should answer. Harriet, who was standing at some distance and
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: with face turned from her, did not immediately say anything,
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: and when she did speak, it was in a voice
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: nearly as agust as Emma's. I should not have thought
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 1: it possible, she began, that you could have misunderstood me.
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: I know we agreed never to name him, but considering
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: how infinitely superior he is to everybody else, I should
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: not have thought it possible that I could be supposed
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: to mean any other person mister Frank Churchill. Indeed, I
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: do not know who would ever look at him in
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: the company of the other. I hope I have a
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: better taste than to think of mister Frank Churchill, who
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: is like nobody by his side. And that you should
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: have been so mistaken is amazing, I am sure, But
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: for believing that you entirely approved and meant to encourage
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: me in my attachment. I should have considered it at
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: first too great a presumption, almost to dare to think
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: of him. At first. If you had not told me
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: that more wonderful things had happened, that there had been
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: matches of greater disparity, those were your very words, I
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: should not have dared to give way to I should
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: not have thought it possible. But if you, who had
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: been always acquainted with him, Harriet cried Emma, collecting herself resolutely,
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: let us understand each other now without the possibility of
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: farther mistake. Are you speaking of mister Knightley? To be sure,
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: I am. I never could have an idea of any
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: body else, And so I thought you knew when we
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: talked about him. It was as clear as possible. Not
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: quite returned Emma with forced calmness. For all that you
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: then said appeared to me to relate to a different person.
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: I could almost assert that you had named mister Frank Churchill.
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: I am sure the service mister Frank Churchill had rendered
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: you in protecting you from the Gypsies was spoken of.
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: Oh miss Woodhouse, how you do forget, my dear Harriet.
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: I perfectly remember the substance of what I said on
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: the occasion. I told you that I did not wonder
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: at your attachment that, considering the service he had rendered you,
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: it was extremely natural, and you agreed to it, expressing
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: yourself very warmly as to your sense of that service,
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: and mentioning even what your sensations had been in seeing
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: him come forward to your rescue dot. The impression of
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: it is strong on my memory, Oh dear cried Harriet.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: Now I recollect what you mean. But I was thinking
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: of something very different at the time. It was not
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: the Gypsies. It was not mister Frank Churchill that I meant, No,
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: with some elevation, I was thinking of a much more
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: precious circumstance, of mister Knightley's coming and asking me to
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: dance when mister Elton would not stand up with me,
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: and when there was no other partner in the room.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: That was the kind action, That was the noble benevolence
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: and generosity. That was the service which made me begin
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: to feel how superior he was to every other being
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: upon earth. Good God, cried Emma, this has been a
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: most unfortunate, most deplorable mistake. What is to be done.
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: You would not have encouraged me then, if you had
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: understood me at least. However, I cannot be worse off
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: than I should have been if the other had been
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: the person. And now it is possible. She paused a
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: few moments. Emma could not speak. I do not wonder,
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: miss Woodhouse. She resumed, that you should feel a great
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: difference between the two, as to me, or as to
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: any body, you must think one five hundred million times
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: more above me than the other. But I hope, miss Woodhouse,
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: that's supposing that, if strange as it may appear, but
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: you know they were your own words, that more wonderful
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: things had happened, matches of greater disparity had taken place
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: than between mister Frank Churchill and me. And therefore it
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: seems as if such a thing, even as this, may
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: have occurred before, and if I should be so fortunate
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: beyond expression as to if mister Knightley should really if
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: he does not mind the disparity. I hope, dear miss Woodhouse,
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: you will not set yourself against it and try to
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: put difficulties in the way. But you are too good
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: for that, I am sure. Harriet was standing at one
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: of the windows. Emma turned round to look at her
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: in consternation and hastily said, have you any idea of
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 1: mister Knightley's returning your affection? Yes, replied Harriet, modestly, but
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: not fearfully, I must say that I have. Emma's eyes
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: were instantly withdrawn, and she sat silently, meditating in a
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 1: fixed attitude for a few minutes. A few minutes were
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: sufficient for making her acquainted with her own heart. A
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: mind like hers, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress.
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: She touched, she admitted, She acknowledged the whole truth. Why
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: was it so much worse that Harriet should be in
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: love with mister Knightley than with Frank Churchill? Why was
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet's having some hope
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 1: of a return? It darted through her with the speed
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: of an arrow. That mister Knightley must marry no one
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: but herself. Her own conduct as well as her own heart,
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: was before her. In the same few minutes. She saw
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: it all with a clearness which had never blessed her before.
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: How improperly had she been acting by Harriet, How inconsiderate,
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: how indelicate, how irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct?
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: What blindness, what madness, had led her on. It struck
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: her with dreadful force, and she was ready to give
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: it every bad name in the world. Some portion of
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: respect for herself, however, in spite of all these demerits,
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: some concern for her own appearance, and a strong sense
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: of justice. By Harriet, there would be no need of
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: compassion to the girl who believed herself loved by mister Knightley.
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: But justice required that she should not be made unhappy
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: by any coldness. Now gave Emma the resolution to sit
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 1: and endure farther with calmness, with even apparent kindness for
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: her own advantage. Indeed, it was fit that the utmost
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: extent of Harriet's hopes should be inquired into, and Harriet
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: had done nothing to forfeit the regard and interest which
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: had been so voluntarily formed and maintained, or to deserve
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: to be slighted by the person whose counsels had never
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: led her right. Rousing from reflection, therefore, and subduing her emotion,
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 1: she turned to Harriet again, and in the a more
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: inviting accent, renewed the conversation, for as to the subject
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: which had first introduced it, the wonderful story of Jane Fairfax,
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: that was quite sunk and lost, neither of them thought,
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 1: but of mister Knightley and themselves. Harriet, who had been
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: standing in no unhappy reverie, was yet very glad to
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: be called from it by the now encouraging manner of
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: such a judge and such a friend as Miss Woodhouse,
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: and only wanted invitation to give the history of her
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: hopes with great though trembling delight. Emma's tremblings, as she
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: asked and as she listened, were better concealed than Harriet's,
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: but they were not less. Her voice was not unsteady,
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: but her mind was in all the perturbation that such
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: a development of self, such a burst of threatening evil,
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: such a confusion of sudden and perplexing emotions, must create.
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: She listened with much inward suffering, but with great outward
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: patience to Harriet's detailed, methodical or well arranged or very
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: well delivered. It could not be expected to be, but
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: it contained, when separated from all the feebleness and tautology
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: of the narration, a substance to sink her spirit, especially
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: with the corroborating circumstances which her own memory brought in
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: favor of mister Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet. Harriet
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: had been conscious of a difference in his behavior ever
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: since those two decisive dances. Emma knew that he had
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: on that occasion found her much superior to his expectation.
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: From that evening, or at least from the time of
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: Miss Woodhouse's encouraging her to think of him, Harriet had
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: begun to be sensible of his talking to her much
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: more than he had been used to do, and of
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: his having indeed quite a different manner towards her, a
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: manner of kindness and sweetness. Latterly, she had been more
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: and more aware of it when they had been all
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: walking together. He had so often come and walked by her,
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: and talked so very delightfully. He seemed to want to
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: be acquainted with her. Emma knew it to have been
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: very much the case. She had often observed the change
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: to almost the same Extenta. Harriet repeated expressions of approbation
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: and praise, and Emma felt them to be in the
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: closest agreement with what she had known of his opinion
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 1: of Harriet. He praised her for being without art or affectation,
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: for having simple, honest, generous feelings. Dot. She knew that
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: he saw such recommendations in Harriet. He had dwelt on
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: them to her more than once. It much that lived
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 1: in Harriet's memory. Many little particulars of the notice she
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 1: had received from him, a look, a speech, a removal
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 1: from one chair to another, a compliment implied, a preference inferred,
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: had been unnoticed because unsuspected by Emma. Circumstances that might
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: swell to half an hour's relation and contained multiplied proofs
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: to her who had seen them, had passed undiscerned by
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: her who now heard them. But the two latest occurrences
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: to be mentioned, the two of strongest promise to Harriet,
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: were not without some degree of witness from Emma herself. Dot.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: The first was his walking with her, Apart from the
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: others in the lime Walk at Donwell, where they had
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: been walking some time before Emma came and he had
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: taken pains as she was convinced to draw her from
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: the rest to himself, and at first he had talked
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: to her in a more particular way than he had
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: ever done before, in a very particular way. Indeed, Harriet
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 1: could not recall it without a blush. He seemed to
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: be almost asking her whether her affections were engaged at
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: but as soon as she miss Woodhouse appeared likely to
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: join them, he changed the subject and began talking about farming.
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: The second was his having sat talking with her nearly
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: half an hour before Emma came back from her visit,
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: the very last morning of his being at Hartfield, though
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: when he first came in he had said that he
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: could not stay five minutes, and his having told her
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: during their conversation that though he must go to London,
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: it was very much against his inclination that he left
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: home at all, which was much more, as Emma felt,
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: than he had acknowledged to her. The superior degree of
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: confidence towards Harriet which this one article marked, gave her
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: severe pain on the subject of the first of the
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: two circumstances. She did, after a little reflection venture the
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 1: following question, might he not Is not it possible that,
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 1: when inquiring, as you thought, into the state of your affections,
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: he might be alluding to mister Martin? He might have
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: mister Martin's interest in view. But Harriet rejected the suspicion
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: with spirit, mister Martin. No, indeed, there was not a
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: hint of mister Martin. I hope I know better now
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: than to care for mister Martin or to be suspected
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: of it. When Harriet had closed her evidence, she appealed
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: to her dear miss Woodhouse to say whether she had
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: not good ground for hope. I never should have presumed
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: to think of it at first, said she, But for you.
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: You told me to observe him carefully and let his
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: behavior be the rule of mine, and so I have.
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: But now I seem to feel that I may deserve him,
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: and that if he does choose me, it will not
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: be anything so very wonderful. The bitter feelings occasioned by
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: this speech, the many bitter feelings, made the utmost exertion
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 1: necessary on Emma's side to enable her to say. On reply,
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: Harriet I will only venture to declare that mister Knightley
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: is the last man in the world who would intentionally
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: give any woman the idea of his feeling for her
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: more than he really does. Harriet seemed ready to worship
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: her friend for a sentence so satisfactory, and Emma was
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 1: only saved from raptures and fondness, which at that moment
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: would have been dreadful penance, by the sound of her
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: father's footsteps. He was coming through the hall. Harriet was
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: too much agitated to encounter him. She could not compose herself.
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: Mister Woodhouse would be alarmed. She had better go with
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 1: most ready encouragement from her friend. Therefore she passed off
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 1: through another door, and the moment she was gone. This
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: was the spontaneous burst of Emma's feelings. Oh God, that
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: I had never seen her. The rest of the day
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: the following night were hardly enough for her thoughts to
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: She was bewildered amidst the confusion of all that had
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: rushed on her within the last few hours. Every moment
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: had brought a fresh surprise, and every surprise must be
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: matter of humiliation to her. Dot How to understand it all?
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: How to understand the deceptions she had been thus practicing
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: on herself, and living under the blunders the blindness of
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 1: her own head and heart. She sat still, She walked about,
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: She tried her own room, She tried the shrubbery in
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: every place, every posture, she perceived that she had acted
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: most weakly, that she had been imposed on by others
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: in a most mortifying degree, that she had been imposing
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: on herself in a degree yet more mortifying. That she
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: was wretched, and should probably find this day but the
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: beginning of wretchedness. To understand thoroughly understand her own heart
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: was the first endeavor. To that point went every leisure
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: moment which her father's claims on her allowed, and every
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: moment of involuntary absence of mind. How long had mister
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: Knightley been so dear to her, as every feeling declared
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: him now to be. When had his influence, such influence begun?
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: When had he succeeded to that place in her affection
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: which Frank Churchill had at once for a short period occupied,
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: she looked back, She compared the two, compared them as
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: they had always stood in her estimation, from the time
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: of the latter's becoming known to her. And as they
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: must at any time have been compared by her. Had it, oh,
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: had it by any blessed felicity occurred to her to
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: institute the comparison dat she saw that there never had
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: been a time when she did not consider mister Knightley
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: as infinitely the superior, or when as regard for her,
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: had not been infinitely the most dear She saw that
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: in persuading herself in fancying in acting to the contrary,
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: she had been entirely under a delusion, totally ignorant of
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 1: her own heart, and in short, that she had never
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: really cared for Frank Churchill at all. This was the
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: conclusion of the first series of reflection. This was the
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 1: knowledge of herself on the first question of inquiry, which
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: she reached, and without being long in reaching it, she
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 1: was most sorrowfully indignant, ashamed of every sensation but the
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: one revealed to her her affection for mister Knightley Doot.
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: Every other part of her mind was disgusting with insufferable vanity.
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: Had she believed herself in the secret of every body's feelings,
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: with unpardonable arrogance, proposed to arrange every body's destiny, she
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: was proved to have been universally mistaken. And she had
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 1: not quite done nothing, For she had done mischief. She
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: had brought evil on Harriet on herself, and she too
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: much feared on mister knightleyedot were this most unequal of
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: all connections to take place on her must rest all
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: the reproach of having given it a beginning for his attachment,
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 1: she must believe to be produced only by a consciousness
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: of Harriet's. And even were this not the case, he
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: would never have known Harriet at all. But for her folly.
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: Mister Knightley and Harriet Smith, it was a union to
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 1: distance every wonder of the kinduct The attachment of Frank
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: Churchill and Jane Fairfax became commonplace, threadbare, stale in the comparison,
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: exciting no surprise, presenting no disparity, affording nothing to be
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: said or thought. Mister Knightley and Harriet Smith. Such an
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: elevation on her side, such a debasement on his. It
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: was horrible to Emma to think how it must sink him,
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: in the general opinion, to foresee the smiles, the sneers,
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: the merriment it would prompt at his expense, the mortification
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 1: and disdain of his brother, the thousand inconveniences to himself.
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: Dot could it be? No, it was impossible, and yet
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: it was far, very far from impossible. Was it a
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: new circumstance for a man of first rate abilities to
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: be captivated by very inferior powers? Was it new for
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: one perhaps too busy, to seek to be the prize
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: of a girl who would seek him? Was it knew
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: for anything in this world to be unequal, inconsistent, incongruous,
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: or for chance and circumstance as second causes to direct
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: the human fate? Oh? Had she never brought Harriet forward,
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 1: had she left her where she ought and where he
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: had told her she ought? Had she not with a folly,
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: would which no tongue could express, prevented her marrying the
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: unexceptionable young man who would have made her happy and
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: respectable in the line of life to which she ought
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 1: to belong, all would have been safe. None of this
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: dreadful sequel would have been. How Harriet could ever have
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: had the presumption to raise her thoughts to mister Knightley,
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: How she could dare to fancy herself the chosen of
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: such a man till actually assured of it? But Harriet
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: was less humble, had fewer scruples than formerly dot Her inferiority,
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: whether of mind or situation, seemed little felt that she
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: had seemed more sensible of mister Elton's being to stoop
• 2:41:32
  Speaker 1: in marrying her than she now seemed of mister Knightley's
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: dot Alas was not that her own doing too, who
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: had been at pains to give Harriet notions of self consequence,
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: but herself, who but herself had taught her that she
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: was to elevate herself if possible, and that her claims
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: were great to a high worldly establishment. If Harriet, from
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: being humble, were grown vain, it was her doing too,
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve. Till now that she was threatened with its law,
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: on being first with mister Knightley, first in interest and affectioned,
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due,
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: she had enjoyed it without reflection, and only in the
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: dread of being supplanted, found how inexpressibly important It had
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 1: been long, very long. She felt she had been first,
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: for having no female connections of his own. There had
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: been only Isabella, whose claims could be compared with hers,
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: and she had always known exactly how far he loved
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 1: and esteemed Isabella. She had herself been first with him
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: for many years past. She had not deserved it. She
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: had often been negligent or perverse, slighting his advice, or
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: even wilfully opposing him, insensible of half his merits, and
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: quarreling with him because he would not acknowledge her false
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 1: and insolent estimate of her own. But still, from family
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: attachment and habit and thorough excellence of mind, he had
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: loved her and watched over her, from a girl with
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: an endeavor to improve her, and an anxiety for her
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: doing right, which no other creature had at all shared.
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: In spite of all her faults, she knew she was
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: dear to him. Might she not say very dear? When
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: the suggestions of hope, however, which must follow here, presented themselves,
• 2:43:14
  Speaker 1: she could not presume to indulge them. Harriet Smith might
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly, exclusively passionately loved
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: by mister Knightley, She could not. She could not flatter
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: herself with any idea of blindness in his attachment to her.
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: She had received a very recent proof of its impartiality. Dot,
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: how shocked had he been by her behavior to Miss Bates,
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: How directly, how strongly had he expressed himself to her
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 1: on the subject, Not too strongly for the offense, but
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: far far too strongly to issue from any feeling softer
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: than upright justice and clear sighted Goodwilden. She had no hope,
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: nothing to deserve the name of hope that he could
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: have that sort of affection for herself, which was now
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 1: in question. But there was a hope, at times a
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: slight one, at times much stronger, that Harriet might have
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: deceived herself and be overrating his regard for her. Dot
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: wish it she must, for his sake, be the consequence
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: nothing to herself but his remaining single all his life.
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: Could she be secure of that? Indeed, of his never
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: marrying at all? She believed she should be perfectly satisfied
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: that Let him but continue the same mister Knightley to
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 1: her and her father, the same mister Knightley to all
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: the world. Let Donwell and Hartfield lose none of their
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: precious intercourse of friendship and confidence, and her peace would
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: be fully secured. The marriage, in fact, would not do
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: for her. It would be incompatible with what she owed
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: to her father, and with what she felt for him.
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: Nothing should separate her from her father. She would not marry,
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: even if she were asked by mister Knightley. It must
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: be her ardent wish that Harriet might be disappointed, and
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: she hoped that, when able to see them together again,
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: she might at least be able to ascertain what the
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 1: chances for it were. Do She should see them henceforward
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: with the closest observance, and wretchedly as she had hitherto
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: misunderstood even though she was watching, she did not know
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: how to admit that she could be blinded hir Dot.
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: He was expected back every day. The power of observation
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 1: would be soon given frightfully soon, it appeared, when her
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 1: thoughts were in one course. In the meanwhile, she resolved
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: against seeing Harriet. It would do neither of them good.
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: It would do the subject no good to be talking
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 1: of it fartheredo. She was resolved not to be convinced
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: as long as she could doubt, and yet had no
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: authority for opposing Harriet's confidence. To talk would be only
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 1: to irritate Dot. She wrote to her. Therefore, kindly but
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 1: decisively to beg that she would not at present come
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: to Hartfield, acknowledging it to be her conviction that all
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: farther confidential discussion of one topic had better be avoided,
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: and hoping that if a few days were allowed to
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: pass before they met again, except in the company of others,
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: she objected only to a tete a tete, they might
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: be able to act as if they had forgotten the
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: conversation of yesterday. Harriet submitted and approved, and was grateful.
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 1: This point was just arranged when a visitor arrived to
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 1: tear Emma's thoughts a little from the one subject which
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: had engrossed them sleeping or waking the last twenty four hours.
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston, who had been calling on her daughter in law,
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 1: elect and took Hartfield in her way home, almost as
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 1: much in duty to Emma as in pleasure to herself
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 1: to relate all the particulars of so interesting an interview.
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 1: Mister Weston had accompanied her to Missus Bates's and gone
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: through his share of this essential attention most handsomely, But she,
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 1: having then induced Miss Fairfax to join her in an airing,
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 1: was now returned with much more to say. And much
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: more to say with satisfaction. Then a quarter of an
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: hour spent in Missus Bates's parlor, with all the encumbrance
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 1: of awkward feelings, could have afforded a little curiosity. Emma had,
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: and she made the most of it while her friend
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: related Missus Weston had set off to pay the visit
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 1: in a good deal of agitation herself, and in the
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: first place had wished not to go at all at present,
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 1: to be allowed merely to write to Miss Fairfax instead,
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 1: and to defer this ceremonious call till a little time
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 1: had passed and mister Churchill could be reconciled to the
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: engagements becoming known as considering everything, she thought such a
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 1: visit could not be paid without leading to reports. But
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 1: mister Weston had thought differently. He was extremely anxious to
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: shew his approbation to Miss Fairfax and her family, and
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: did not conceive that any suspicion could be excited by it,
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 1: or if it were, that it would be of any consequence.
• 2:47:31
  Speaker 1: For such things he observed, always got about. Emma smiled
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 1: and felt that mister Weston had very good reason for
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: saying so. They had gone in short and very great
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: had been the evident distress and confusion of the lady.
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 1: She had hardly been able to speak a word, and
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: every look and action had shown how deeply she was
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: suffering from consciousness. The quiet, heartfelt satisfaction of the old lady,
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: and the rapturous delight of her daughter, who proved even
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 1: too joyous to talk as usual, had been a gratifying
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: yet almost an affecting scene. They were both so truly
• 2:48:07
  Speaker 1: respectable in their happiness, so disinterested in every sensation, thought
• 2:48:11
  Speaker 1: so much of Jane, so much of every body, and
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: so little of themselves, that every kindly feeling was at
• 2:48:16
  Speaker 1: work for them. Miss Fairfax's recent illness had offered a
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: fair plea for Missus Weston to invite her to an airing.
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 1: She had drawn back and declined at first, but on
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: being pressed, had yielded, and in the course of their drive,
• 2:48:29
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston had, by gentle encouragement, overcome so much of
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: her embarrassment as to bring her to converse on the
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 1: important subject, apologies for her seemingly ungracious silence in their
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 1: first reception, and the warmest expressions of the gratitude she
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: was always feeling towards herself and mister Weston must necessarily
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: open the cause. But when these effusions were put by,
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 1: they had talked a good deal of the present and
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: of the future state of the engagement. Missus Weston was
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: convinced that such conversation must be the greatest relief to
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 1: her companion, pent up within her own mind as every
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 1: thing had so long been, and was very much pleased
• 2:49:04
  Speaker 1: with all that she had said on the subject. On
• 2:49:07
  Speaker 1: the misery of what she had suffered during the concealment
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 1: of so many months, continued Missus Weston. She was energetic.
• 2:49:14
  Speaker 1: This was one of her expressions. I will not say
• 2:49:18
  Speaker 1: that since I entered into the engagement, I have not
• 2:49:20
  Speaker 1: had some happy moments, but I can say that I
• 2:49:22
  Speaker 1: have never known the blessing of one tranquil hour and
• 2:49:25
  Speaker 1: the quivering lip Emma which uttered. It was an attestation
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 1: that I felt at my heart. Poor girl, said Emma.
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: She thinks herself wrong, then, for having consented to a
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 1: private engagement wrong. No one, I believe can blame her
• 2:49:42
  Speaker 1: more than she is disposed to blame herself. The consequence, said,
• 2:49:46
  Speaker 1: she has been a state of perpetual suffering to me,
• 2:49:49
  Speaker 1: and so it ought. But after all the punishment that
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 1: misconduct can bring. It is still not less. Misconduct. Pain
• 2:49:57
  Speaker 1: is no expiation. I never can be blame aimless. I
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 1: have been acting contrary to all my sense of right
• 2:50:04
  Speaker 1: and the fortunate turn that every thing has taken, and
• 2:50:06
  Speaker 1: the kindness I am now receiving is what my conscience
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: tells me ought not to be. Do not imagine, madam,
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: She continued, that I was taught wrong. Do not let
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 1: any reflection fall on the principles or the care of
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 1: the friends who brought me up. The error has been
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: all my own, and I do assure you that with
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: all the excuse that present circumstances may appear to give,
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: I shall yet dread making the story known to Colonel Campbell.
• 2:50:31
  Speaker 1: Poor girl, said Emma. Again. She loves him then excessively.
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: I suppose it must have been from attachment only that
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: she could be led to form the engagement. Her affection
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 1: must have overpowered her judgment. Yes, I have no doubt
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: of her being extremely attached to him, I am afraid,
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: returned Emma, sighing that I must often have contributed to
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: make her unhappy. On your side, my love, it was
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: very innocently done, but she probably had something of that
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: in her thoughts, when alluding to the misunderstandings which he
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 1: had given us hints of before. One natural consequence of
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: the evil she had involved herself in, she said, was
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: that of making her unreasonable. The consciousness of having done
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: amiss had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 1: her captious and irritable, to a degree that must have
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: been that had been hard for him to bear. I
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: did not make the allowances, said she, which I ought
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 1: to have done for his temper and spirits, his delightful spirits,
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: and that gaiety, that playfulness of disposition, which under any
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: other circumstances would I am sure, have been as constantly
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: bewitching to me as they were at first. She then
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: began to speak of you, and of the great kindness
• 2:51:45
  Speaker 1: you had shown her during her illness, and with a
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: blush which shewed me how it was all connected, desired
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: me whenever I had an opportunity to thank you, I
• 2:51:53
  Speaker 1: could not thank you too much for every wish and
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 1: every endeavor to do her good. She was sensible that
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: you had never received any proper acknowledgment from herself. If
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: I did not know her to be happy, Now, said
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: Emma seriously, which, in spite of every little drawback from
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: her scrupulous conscience, she must be. I could not bear
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 1: these thanks for oh, Missus Weston, if there were an
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 1: account drawn up of the evil and the good. I
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 1: have done Miss Fairfax well, checking herself and trying to
• 2:52:22
  Speaker 1: be more lively. This is all to be forgotten. You
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 1: are very kind to bring me these interesting particulars. They
• 2:52:29
  Speaker 1: shew her to the greatest advantage. I am sure she
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: is very good. I hope she will be very happy.
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: It is fit that the fortune should be on his side,
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: for I think the merit will be all on hers.
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 1: Such a conclusion could not pass unanswered by Missus Weston.
• 2:52:46
  Speaker 1: She thought well of Frank in almost every respect, and
• 2:52:49
  Speaker 1: what was more, she loved him very much, and her
• 2:52:52
  Speaker 1: defense was therefore earnest. She talked with a great deal
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: of reason and at least equal affection. But she had
• 2:52:59
  Speaker 1: too much to urge for Emma's attention. It was soon
• 2:53:02
  Speaker 1: gone to Brunswick Square or to Donwell. She forgot to
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: attempt to listen, And when Missus Weston ended with we
• 2:53:08
  Speaker 1: have not yet had the letter we are so anxious for,
• 2:53:11
  Speaker 1: you know, but I hope it will soon come. She
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 1: was obliged to pause before she answered, and at last
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 1: obliged to answer at random before she could at all
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: recollect what letter it was which they were so anxious for.
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: Are you well, my Emma, was Missus Weston's parting question.
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: Oh perfectly, I am always well, you know. Be sure
• 2:53:33
  Speaker 1: to give me intelligence of the letter as soon as possible.
• 2:53:37
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston's communications furnished Emma with more food for unpleasant
• 2:53:40
  Speaker 1: reflection by increasing her esteem and compassion, and her sense
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: of passed injustice towards Miss Fairfax. She bitterly regretted not
• 2:53:48
  Speaker 1: having sought a closer acquaintance with her, and blushed for
• 2:53:51
  Speaker 1: the envious feelings which had certainly been in some measure
• 2:53:54
  Speaker 1: the cause. Had she followed mister Knightley's known wishes in
• 2:53:59
  Speaker 1: paying that attention to Miss Fairfax, which was every way
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: her due. Had she tried to know her better, had
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 1: she done her part towards intimacy, had she endeavored to
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 1: find a friend there instead of in Harriet Smith, she must,
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: in all probability have been spared from every pain which
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: pressed on her. Now birth, abilities and education had been
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: equally marking one as an associate for her to be
• 2:54:21
  Speaker 1: received with gratitude and the other. What was she supposing,
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: even that they had never become intimate friends, that she
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: had never been admitted into Miss Fairfax's confidence on this
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 1: important matter, which was most probable still in knowing her
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 1: as she ought and as she might, she must have
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: been preserved from the abominable suspicions of an improper attachment
• 2:54:40
  Speaker 1: to mister Dixon, which she had not only so foolishly
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: fashioned and harbored herself, but had so unpardonably imparted, an
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: idea which she greatly feared had been made a subject
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 1: of material distress to the delicacy of Jane's feelings by
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: the levity or carelessness of Frank Churchill's. Of all the
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 1: sources of evil surrounding the former since her coming to Highbury,
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 1: she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst.
• 2:55:04
  Speaker 1: She must have been a perpetual enemy. They never could
• 2:55:08
  Speaker 1: have been all three together without her having stabbed Jane
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 1: Fairfax's peace in a thousand instances, and on box Hill,
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: perhaps it had been the agony of a mind that
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: would bear no more. The evening of this day was
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 1: very long and melancholy At Hartfield. The weather added what
• 2:55:24
  Speaker 1: it could have gloom. A cold, stormy rain set in,
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: and nothing of July appeared, but in the trees and
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 1: shrubs which the wind was despoiling, and the length of
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 1: the day, which only made such cruel sights the longer visible.
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 1: The weather affected mister Woodhouse, and he could only be
• 2:55:41
  Speaker 1: kept tolerably comfortable by almost ceaseless attention on his daughter's side,
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: and by exertions which had never cost her half so
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 1: much before. It reminded her of their first forlorn tete
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: a tete on the evening of missus Weston's wedding day,
• 2:55:54
  Speaker 1: But mister Knightley had walked in then soon after tea
• 2:55:57
  Speaker 1: and dissipated every melancholy fancy. Alas such delightful proofs of
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 1: Hartfield's attraction, as those sort of visits conveyed, might shortly
• 2:56:07
  Speaker 1: be over. The picture which she had then drawn of
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 1: the privations of the approaching winter had proved erroneous. No
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: friends had deserted them, no pleasures had been lost. But
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: her present forebodings, she feared, would experience no similar contradiction.
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: The prospect before her now was threatening to a degree
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: that could not be entirely dispelled, that might not be
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 1: even partially brightened. If all took place that might take
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: place among the circle of her friends, Hartfield must be
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 1: comparatively deserted, and she left to cheer her father with
• 2:56:36
  Speaker 1: the spirits only of ruined happiness. The child to be
• 2:56:40
  Speaker 1: born at Randall's must be a tie there, even dearer
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: than herself, and missus Weston's heart and time would be
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: occupied by it. They should lose her, and probably in
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: great measure, her husband, also toa Frank Churchill, would return
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 1: among them no more. And Miss Fairfax, it was reasonable
• 2:56:56
  Speaker 1: to suppose, would soon cease to belong to Highbury. They
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 1: would be married and settled either at or near Enscomb.
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: All that were good would be withdrawn. And if to
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 1: these losses the loss of Donwell were to be added,
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 1: what would remain of cheerful or of rational society within
• 2:57:12
  Speaker 1: their reach. Mister Knightley to be no longer coming there
• 2:57:16
  Speaker 1: for his evening comfort, no longer walking in at all hours,
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: as if ever willing to change his own home for theirs,
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 1: how was it to be endured? And if he were
• 2:57:26
  Speaker 1: to be lost to them for Harriet's sake, if he
• 2:57:28
  Speaker 1: were to be thought of hereafter as finding in Harriet's
• 2:57:31
  Speaker 1: society all that he wanted. If Harriet were to be
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 1: the chosen, the first, the dearest, the friend, the wife
• 2:57:38
  Speaker 1: to whom he looked for all the best blessings of existence.
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: What could be increasing Emma's wretchedness? But the reflection never
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: far distant from her mind that it had been all
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: her own work. When it came to such a pitch
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 1: as this. She was not able to refrain from a
• 2:57:51
  Speaker 1: start or a heavy sigh, or even from walking about
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 1: the room for a few seconds. And the only source
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and
• 2:58:02
  Speaker 1: the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gayety, might be,
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 1: the following and every future winter of her life to
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 1: the past, it would yet find her more rational, more
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when
• 2:58:14
  Speaker 1: it were gone. Chapter thirteen. The weather continued much the
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: same all the following morning, and the same loneliness and
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 1: the same melancholy seemed to rain at Hartfield. But in
• 2:58:24
  Speaker 1: the afternoon it cleared, the wind changed into a softer quarter,
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 1: the clouds were carried off the sun appeared it was
• 2:58:31
  Speaker 1: summer again. With all the eagerness which such a transition gives,
• 2:58:36
  Speaker 1: Emma resolved to be out of doors as soon as possible.
• 2:58:39
  Speaker 1: Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature tranquil,
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: warm and brilliant after a storm been more attractive to her.
• 2:58:48
  Speaker 1: She longed for the serenity they might gradually introduce, and
• 2:58:52
  Speaker 1: on mister Perry's coming in soon after dinner, with a
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 1: disengaged hour to give her father, she lost no time
• 2:58:57
  Speaker 1: in hurrying into the shrubbery duck. There, with spirits freshened
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 1: and thoughts a little relieved, She had taken a few
• 2:59:04
  Speaker 1: turns when she saw mister Knightley passing through the garden
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 1: door and coming towards her Dot. It was the first
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: intimation of his being returned from London. She had been
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 1: thinking of him the moment before, as unquestionably sixteen miles
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: distant Dot. There was time only for the quickest arrangement
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 1: of mind. She must be collected and calm. In half
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: a minute they were together. The Hauji dews were quiet
• 2:59:30
  Speaker 1: and constrained on each side. She asked after their mutual friends.
• 2:59:34
  Speaker 1: They were all well. When had he left them only
• 2:59:37
  Speaker 1: that morning. He must have had a wet ride. Dot, yes, dot,
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 1: he meant to walk with her, she found he had
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 1: just looked into the dining room, and as he was
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: not wanted there, preferred being out of doors. She thought
• 2:59:53
  Speaker 1: he neither looked nor spoke cheerfully, and the first possible
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 1: cause for it, suggested by her fears, was that he
• 2:59:59
  Speaker 1: had perhaps been and communicating his plans to his brother,
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 1: and was pained by the manner in which they had
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: been received. They walked together, he was silent. She thought
• 3:00:09
  Speaker 1: he was often looking at her and trying for a
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 1: fuller view of her face than it suited her to give,
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 1: And this belief produced another dread. Perhaps he wanted to
• 3:00:18
  Speaker 1: speak to her of his attachment to Harriet. He might
• 3:00:21
  Speaker 1: be watching for encouragement to begin. She did not. Could
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: not feel equal to lead the way to any such subject.
• 3:00:28
  Speaker 1: He must do it all himself. Yet she could not
• 3:00:32
  Speaker 1: bear this silence with him. It was most unnatural, she considered, Resolved,
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 1: and trying to smile, began, you have some news to
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 1: hear now you are come back. That will rather surprise you, have,
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: I said he quietly, and looking at her, of what nature? Oh,
• 3:00:51
  Speaker 1: the best nature in the world a wedding. After waiting
• 3:00:55
  Speaker 1: a moment, as if to be sure she intended to
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: say no more, he replied, if you mean miss Fairfax
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: and Frank Churchill, I have heard that already. How is
• 3:01:04
  Speaker 1: it possible, cried Emma, turning her glowing cheeks towards him.
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: For while she spoke, it occurred to her that he
• 3:01:10
  Speaker 1: might have called at missus Goddard's. In his way, I
• 3:01:13
  Speaker 1: had a few lines on parish business from mister Weston
• 3:01:16
  Speaker 1: this morning, and at the end of them he gave
• 3:01:18
  Speaker 1: me a brief account of what had happened. Emma was
• 3:01:21
  Speaker 1: quite relieved and could presently say, with a little more composure,
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 1: you probably have been less surprised than any of us,
• 3:01:27
  Speaker 1: for you have had your suspicions. Dot. I have not
• 3:01:31
  Speaker 1: forgotten that you once tried to give me a caution.
• 3:01:33
  Speaker 1: I wish I had attended to it, but with a
• 3:01:35
  Speaker 1: sinking voice and a heavy sigh, I seem to have
• 3:01:38
  Speaker 1: been doomed to blindness. For a moment or two, nothing
• 3:01:42
  Speaker 1: was said, and she was unsuspicious of having excited any
• 3:01:44
  Speaker 1: particular interest, till she found her arm drawn within his
• 3:01:48
  Speaker 1: and pressed against his heart and heard him thus saying,
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: in a tone of great sensibility, speaking low time, my
• 3:01:54
  Speaker 1: dearest Emma, time will heal the wound your own excellent sense,
• 3:01:59
  Speaker 1: your exertions for your father's sake, I know you will
• 3:02:02
  Speaker 1: not allow yourself. Her arm was pressed again as he added,
• 3:02:06
  Speaker 1: in a more broken and subdued accent, the feelings of
• 3:02:09
  Speaker 1: the warmest friendship, indignation, abominable scoundrel, And in a louder,
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: steadier tone, he concluded with he will soon be gone,
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 1: They will soon be in Yorkshire. I am sorry for her.
• 3:02:23
  Speaker 1: She deserves a better fate. Emma understood him, and, as
• 3:02:27
  Speaker 1: soon as she could recover from the flutter of pleasure
• 3:02:30
  Speaker 1: excited by such tender consideration, replied, you are very kind,
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: but you are mistaken, and I must set you right.
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: I am not in want of that sort of compassion.
• 3:02:40
  Speaker 1: My blindness to what was going on led me to
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 1: act by them in a way that I must always
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: be ashamed of. And I was very foolishly tempted to
• 3:02:46
  Speaker 1: say and do many things which may well lay me
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 1: open to unpleasant conjectures. But I have no other reason
• 3:02:51
  Speaker 1: to regret that I was not in the secret earlier.
• 3:02:54
  Speaker 1: Emma cried he, looking eagerly at her. Are you indeed
• 3:03:00
  Speaker 1: but checking himself? No, No, I understand you forgive me.
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 1: I am pleased that you can say even so much. Dot.
• 3:03:07
  Speaker 1: He is no object of regret, indeed, and it will
• 3:03:11
  Speaker 1: not be very long, I hope before that becomes the
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 1: acknowledgment of more than your reason. That fortunate that your
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: affections were not farther entangled. I could never, I confess
• 3:03:22
  Speaker 1: from your manners assure myself as to the degree of
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: what you felt. I could only be certain that there
• 3:03:27
  Speaker 1: was a preference, and a preference which I never believed
• 3:03:29
  Speaker 1: him to deserve. Dot. He is a disgrace to the
• 3:03:31
  Speaker 1: name of man dot, and is he to be rewarded
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: with that sweet young woman, Jane, Jane, you will be
• 3:03:37
  Speaker 1: a miserable creature, mister Knightley, said Emma, trying to be lively,
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 1: but really confused. I am in a very extraordinary situation.
• 3:03:47
  Speaker 1: I cannot let you continue in your error. And yet,
• 3:03:50
  Speaker 1: perhaps since my manners gave such an impression, I have
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 1: as much reason to be ashamed of confessing that I
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: never have been at all attached to the person we
• 3:03:57
  Speaker 1: are speaking of, as it might be natural for a
• 3:03:59
  Speaker 1: while to feel in confessing exactly the reverse, Dot, But
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 1: I never have He listened in perfect silence. She wished
• 3:04:07
  Speaker 1: him to speak, but he would not. She supposed she
• 3:04:11
  Speaker 1: must say more before she were entitled to his clemency.
• 3:04:14
  Speaker 1: But it was a hard case to be obliged still
• 3:04:16
  Speaker 1: to lower herself in his opinion. She went on, However,
• 3:04:21
  Speaker 1: I have very little to say for my own conduct. Dot.
• 3:04:23
  Speaker 1: I was tempted by his attentions and allowed myself to
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: appear pleased. Dot. An old story, probably a common case,
• 3:04:32
  Speaker 1: and no more than has happened to hundreds of my
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: sex before. And yet it may not be the more
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 1: excusable in one who sets up as I do, for understanding.
• 3:04:40
  Speaker 1: Many circumstances assisted the temptation. He was the son of
• 3:04:44
  Speaker 1: mister Weston. He was continually here. I always found him
• 3:04:47
  Speaker 1: very pleasant, and in short, for with a sigh, let
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 1: me swell out the causes. Ever so ingeniously they all
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: sent her in this. At last my vanity was flattered,
• 3:04:57
  Speaker 1: and I allowed his attentions. However, for some time, indeed,
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: I have had no idea of their meaning anything. I
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 1: thought them a habit, a trick, nothing that called for seriousness.
• 3:05:10
  Speaker 1: On my side. He has imposed on me, but he
• 3:05:13
  Speaker 1: has not injured me. I have never been attached to him,
• 3:05:18
  Speaker 1: and now I can tolerably comprehend his behavior. He never
• 3:05:22
  Speaker 1: wished to attach me. It was merely a blind to
• 3:05:25
  Speaker 1: conceal his real situation with another dot. It was his
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: object to blind all about him, and no one, I
• 3:05:32
  Speaker 1: am sure, could be more effectually blinded than myself, except
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: that I was not blinded. That it was my good
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 1: fortune that, in short, I was somehow or other safe
• 3:05:41
  Speaker 1: from him. She had hoped for an answer here, for
• 3:05:44
  Speaker 1: a few words, to say that her conduct was at
• 3:05:46
  Speaker 1: least intelligible, But he was silent, and as far as
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: she could judge, deep in thought. At last, and tolerably,
• 3:05:54
  Speaker 1: in his usual tone, he said, I have never had
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: a high opinion of Frank Churchild. I can suppose, however,
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 1: that I may have underrated him. My acquaintance with him
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: has been but triflinged. And even if I have not
• 3:06:06
  Speaker 1: underrated him hitherto, he may yet turn out weld with
• 3:06:09
  Speaker 1: such a woman he has a chance. I have no
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 1: motive for wishing him ill, and for her sake, whose
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: happiness will be involved in his good character and conduct,
• 3:06:17
  Speaker 1: I shall certainly wish him well. I have no doubt
• 3:06:21
  Speaker 1: of their being happy together, said Emma. I believe them
• 3:06:23
  Speaker 1: to be very mutually and very sincerely attached. He is
• 3:06:27
  Speaker 1: a most fortunate man, returned mister Knightley with energy, so
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: early in life, at three and twenty, a period when
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: if a man chooses a wife he generally chooses ill
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 1: at three and twenty to have drawn such a prize.
• 3:06:43
  Speaker 1: What years of felicity that man, in all human calculation,
• 3:06:46
  Speaker 1: has before him assured of the love of such a woman.
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: The disinterested love for Jane Fairfax's character vouches for her
• 3:06:53
  Speaker 1: disinterestedness every thing in his favor. Equality of situation, I mean,
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: as far as regards society and all the habits and
• 3:07:01
  Speaker 1: manners that are important. Equality in every point but one,
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: and that one. Since the purity of her heart is
• 3:07:07
  Speaker 1: not to be doubted, such as must increase his felicity,
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: for it will be his to bestow the only advantages
• 3:07:12
  Speaker 1: she wants to. A man would always wish to give
• 3:07:16
  Speaker 1: a woman a better home than the one he takes
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: her from. And he who can do it, where there
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: the happiest of mortals. Frank Churchill is indeed the favorite
• 3:07:27
  Speaker 1: of fortune. Everything turns out for his good. Dot. He
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 1: meets with a young woman at a watering place, gains
• 3:07:34
  Speaker 1: her affection, cannot even weary her by negligent treatment. And
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 1: had he and all his family sought round the world
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: for a perfect wife for him, they could not have
• 3:07:42
  Speaker 1: found her superior. Do His aunt is in the wait,
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 1: his aunt dies, dot, he has only to speak do.
• 3:07:47
  Speaker 1: His friends are eager to promote his happiness. Dot. He
• 3:07:51
  Speaker 1: had used every body ill, and they are all delighted
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 1: to forgive him. Dot. He is a fortunate man. Indeed,
• 3:07:57
  Speaker 1: you speak as if you envied him, and I do
• 3:08:00
  Speaker 1: envy him, Emma. In one respect, he is the object
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 1: of my envy. Emma could say no more. They seemed
• 3:08:08
  Speaker 1: to be within half a sentence of Harriet, and her
• 3:08:11
  Speaker 1: immediate feeling was to avert the subject. If possible, She
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: made her plan she would speak of something totally different,
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 1: the children in Brunswick Square. And she only waited for
• 3:08:21
  Speaker 1: breath to begin when mister Knightley startled her by saying,
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 1: you will not ask me what is the point of
• 3:08:26
  Speaker 1: envied it? You are determined, I see to have no curiosity. Dot,
• 3:08:30
  Speaker 1: you are wise, but I cannot be wise. Emma. I
• 3:08:34
  Speaker 1: must tell you what you will not ask, though I
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: may wish it unsaid the next moment. Oh then don't
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: speak it. Don't speak it, she eagerly cried. Take a
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 1: little time consider, do not commit yourself. Thank you, said he,
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: in an accent of deep mortification, and not another syllable followed.
• 3:08:55
  Speaker 1: Emma could not bear to give him pain. He was
• 3:08:58
  Speaker 1: wishing to confide in her. Perhaps to consult her cost
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 1: her what it would she would listen. She might assist
• 3:09:04
  Speaker 1: his resolution, or reconcile him to it. She might give
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 1: just praise to Harriet, or, by representing to him his
• 3:09:11
  Speaker 1: own independence, relieve him from that state of indecision, which
• 3:09:15
  Speaker 1: must be more intolerable than any alternative to such a
• 3:09:17
  Speaker 1: mind as his. Dot. They had reached the house you
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: are going in, I suppose, said he. No, replied Emma,
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 1: quite confirmed by the depressed manner in which he still spoke,
• 3:09:29
  Speaker 1: should like to take another turn, mister Perry is not gone.
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: And after proceeding a few steps, she added, I stopped
• 3:09:38
  Speaker 1: you ungraciously just now, mister Knightley, and I am afraid
• 3:09:42
  Speaker 1: gave you pained but if you have any wish to
• 3:09:44
  Speaker 1: speak openly to me as a friend, or to ask
• 3:09:47
  Speaker 1: my opinion of anything that you may have in contemplation
• 3:09:49
  Speaker 1: as a friend, indeed you may command me Dot, I
• 3:09:53
  Speaker 1: will hear whatever you like. I will tell you exactly
• 3:09:56
  Speaker 1: what I think as a friend. Repeat, mister knightleedot Emma
• 3:10:01
  Speaker 1: that I fear is a word. No, I have no wish.
• 3:10:05
  Speaker 1: Stay yes, why should I hesitate? I have gone too
• 3:10:08
  Speaker 1: far already for concealment, Emma. I accept your offer, extraordinary
• 3:10:12
  Speaker 1: as it may seem. I accept it and refer myself
• 3:10:15
  Speaker 1: to you as a friend. DOT. Tell me then, have
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 1: I no chance of ever succeeding. He stopped in his
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 1: earnestness to look the question, and the expression of his
• 3:10:25
  Speaker 1: eyes overpowered her. My dearest, Emma, said he for dearest,
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 1: you will always be whatever the event of this hour's conversation.
• 3:10:33
  Speaker 1: My dearest, most beloved, Emma, tell me at once, say no,
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 1: if it is to be said. She could really say nothing.
• 3:10:43
  Speaker 1: You are silent, he cried, with great animation. Absolutely silent
• 3:10:48
  Speaker 1: at present, I ask no more. Emma was almost ready
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 1: to sink under the agitation of this moment, the dread
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 1: of being awakened from the happiest dream was perhaps the
• 3:10:58
  Speaker 1: most prominent feeling. I cannot make speeches, Emma. He soon resumed,
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: and in a tone of such sincere decided intelligible tenderness
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 1: as was tolerably convincing that if I loved you less,
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: I might be able to talk about it more. But
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 1: you know what I am, Dot. You hear nothing but
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 1: truth from me. Dot. I have blamed you and lectured you,
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 1: and you have borne it as no other woman in
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 1: England would have borne it. Dot. Bear with the truths
• 3:11:24
  Speaker 1: I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as
• 3:11:26
  Speaker 1: you have borne with them. The manner perhaps may have
• 3:11:30
  Speaker 1: as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been
• 3:11:34
  Speaker 1: a very indifferent lover Dot. But you understand me. Dot. Yes,
• 3:11:38
  Speaker 1: you see you understand my feelings and will return them
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 1: if you can. At present, I ask only to hear once,
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 1: to hear your voice. While he spoke, Emma's mind was
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: most busy, and with all the wonderful velocity of thought
• 3:11:53
  Speaker 1: had been able, and yet without losing a word, to
• 3:11:55
  Speaker 1: catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole. To
• 3:11:58
  Speaker 1: see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake,
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 1: a delusion as complete a delusion as any of her own.
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 1: That Harriet was nothing, that she was everything herself, that
• 3:12:09
  Speaker 1: what she had been saying relative to Harriet had been
• 3:12:11
  Speaker 1: all taken as the language of her own feelings, and
• 3:12:14
  Speaker 1: that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her discouragement had
• 3:12:18
  Speaker 1: been all received as discouragement from herself. Dot And not
• 3:12:23
  Speaker 1: only was there time for these convictions, with all their
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: glow of attendant happiness, there was time also to rejoice
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 1: that Harriet's secret had not escaped her, and to resolve
• 3:12:31
  Speaker 1: that it need not and should not. It was all
• 3:12:35
  Speaker 1: the service she could now render her poor friend for
• 3:12:37
  Speaker 1: As to any of that heroism of sentiment which might
• 3:12:40
  Speaker 1: have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his affection
• 3:12:42
  Speaker 1: from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 1: the two, or even the more simple sublimity of resolving
• 3:12:47
  Speaker 1: to refuse him at once and forever, without vouchsafing any motive,
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: because he could not marry them both, Emma had it not.
• 3:12:56
  Speaker 1: She felt for Harriet with pain and with contrition, but
• 3:12:59
  Speaker 1: no flight of generosity, run mad opposing all that could
• 3:13:03
  Speaker 1: be probable or reasonable, entered her brain. She had led
• 3:13:06
  Speaker 1: her friend astray, and it would be a reproach to
• 3:13:09
  Speaker 1: her forever. But her judgment was as strong as her feelings,
• 3:13:12
  Speaker 1: and as strong as it had ever been before, in
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 1: reprobating any such alliance for him as most unequal and degrading.
• 3:13:19
  Speaker 1: Her way was clear, though not quite smooth. Dot. She
• 3:13:22
  Speaker 1: spoke then, on being so entreated? Dot. What did she say?
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: Just what she ought? Of course a lady always does. Dot.
• 3:13:31
  Speaker 1: She said enough to shew there need not be despair,
• 3:13:34
  Speaker 1: and to invite him to say more himself. He had
• 3:13:37
  Speaker 1: despaired at one period he had received such an injunction
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 1: to caution and silence, as for the time, crushed every
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: hope she had begun by refusing to hear him Dot.
• 3:13:45
  Speaker 1: The change had perhaps been somewhat sudden. Her proposal of
• 3:13:50
  Speaker 1: taking another turn, her renewing the conversation which she had
• 3:13:53
  Speaker 1: just put an end to, might be a little extraordinary.
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 1: She felt its inconsistency, But mister Knightley was so obliging
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: as to put up with it and seek no farther explanation. Seldom,
• 3:14:03
  Speaker 1: very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure
• 3:14:07
  Speaker 1: seldom can it happen that something is not a little
• 3:14:09
  Speaker 1: disguised or a little mistaken. But where as in this case,
• 3:14:13
  Speaker 1: though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 1: may not be very material. Mister Knightley could not impute
• 3:14:21
  Speaker 1: to Emma a more relenting heart than she possessed, or
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 1: a heart more disposed to accept of his. He had,
• 3:14:27
  Speaker 1: in fact been wholly unsuspicious of his own influence. He
• 3:14:31
  Speaker 1: had followed her into the shrubbery with no idea of
• 3:14:34
  Speaker 1: trying it. He had come, in his anxiety to see
• 3:14:37
  Speaker 1: how she bore Frank Churchill's engagement, with no selfish view,
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: no view at all, but of endeavoring if she allowed
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: him an opening to soothe or to counsel her dot
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: The rest had been the work of the moment. The
• 3:14:49
  Speaker 1: immediate effect of what he heard on his feelings, The
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 1: delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of
• 3:14:56
  Speaker 1: her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given
• 3:14:59
  Speaker 1: birth to the hope that in time he might gain
• 3:15:02
  Speaker 1: her affection himself. But it had been no present hope.
• 3:15:05
  Speaker 1: He had only, in the momentary conquest of eagerness over judgment,
• 3:15:09
  Speaker 1: aspired to be told that she did not forbid his
• 3:15:11
  Speaker 1: attempt to attach her. Dot. The superior hopes which gradually
• 3:15:15
  Speaker 1: opened were so much the more enchanting. The affection which
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 1: he had been asking to be allowed to create if
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 1: he could, was already his. Within half an hour, he
• 3:15:25
  Speaker 1: had passed from a thoroughly distressed state of mind to
• 3:15:28
  Speaker 1: something so like perfect happiness that it could bear no
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 1: other name. Her change was equaled. This one half hour
• 3:15:34
  Speaker 1: had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved,
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 1: had cleared from each the same degree of ignorance, jealousy
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: or distrust. On his side, there had been a long
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 1: standing jealousy, old as the arrival or even the expectation
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: of Frank Churchild. He had been in love with Emma
• 3:15:51
  Speaker 1: and jealous of Frank Churchill from about the same period,
• 3:15:54
  Speaker 1: one sentiment having probably enlightened him as to the other.
• 3:15:58
  Speaker 1: It was his jealousy of Frank Churchill that had taken
• 3:16:00
  Speaker 1: him from the country. Dot. The box Hill Party had
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: decided him, on going away he would save himself from
• 3:16:07
  Speaker 1: witnessing again such permitted, encouraged attentions. Dot. He had gone
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 1: to learn to be indifferent. But he had gone to
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 1: a wrong place. There was too much domestic happiness in
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 1: his brother's house. Woman wore too amiable. A four minute
• 3:16:20
  Speaker 1: Isabella was too much like Emma, differing only in those
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: striking inferiorities which always brought the other in Brilliancy before him.
• 3:16:27
  Speaker 1: For much to have been done, even had his time
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 1: been longer, Dot He had stayed on, however, vigorously, day
• 3:16:35
  Speaker 1: after day till this very morning's post had conveyed the
• 3:16:38
  Speaker 1: history of Jane Fairfax Dot. Then with the gladness which
• 3:16:42
  Speaker 1: must be felt, nay, which he did not scruple to feel,
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 1: having never believed Frank Churchill to be at all deserving Emma.
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 1: Was there so much fond solicitude, so much keen anxiety
• 3:16:52
  Speaker 1: for her, that he could stay no longer. He had
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 1: ridden home through the rain and had walked up directly
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 1: after dinner to see how the sweetest and best of
• 3:17:00
  Speaker 1: all creatures faultless in spite of all her faults or
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: the discovery. He had found her agitated and loda Frank
• 3:17:07
  Speaker 1: Churchill was a villainda he heard her declare that she
• 3:17:10
  Speaker 1: had never loved him. Frank Churchill's character was not desperate.
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 1: She was his own Emma by hand and word when
• 3:17:17
  Speaker 1: they returned into the house, And if he could have
• 3:17:19
  Speaker 1: thought of Frank Churchill, then he might have deemed him
• 3:17:22
  Speaker 1: a very good sort of fellow. Chapter fourteen. What totally
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: different feelings did Emma take back into the house from
• 3:17:28
  Speaker 1: what she had brought out. She had then been only
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: daring to hope for a little respite of suffering. She
• 3:17:34
  Speaker 1: was now in an exquisite flutter of happiness, And such happiness, moreover,
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: as she believed, must still be greater when the flutter
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: should have passed away they sat down to tea the
• 3:17:44
  Speaker 1: same party round the same table. How often it had
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: been collected, and how often had her eyes fallen on
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: the same shrubs in the lawn and observed the same
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 1: beautiful effect of the western sun. But never in such
• 3:17:56
  Speaker 1: a state of spirits, never in any thing like it.
• 3:17:59
  Speaker 1: And it was with difficulty that she could summon enough
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 1: of her usual self to be the attentive lady of
• 3:18:03
  Speaker 1: the house, or even the attentive daughter. Poor mister Woodhouse
• 3:18:07
  Speaker 1: little suspected what was plotting against him in the breast
• 3:18:10
  Speaker 1: of that man whom he was so cordially welcoming and
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: so anxiously hoping, might not have taken cold from his ride,
• 3:18:15
  Speaker 1: that could he have seen the heart, he would have
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: cared very little for the lungs, but without the most
• 3:18:21
  Speaker 1: distant imagination of the impending evil, without the slightest perception
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: of anything extraordinary in the looks or ways of either.
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: He repeated to them very comfortably all the articles of
• 3:18:30
  Speaker 1: news he had received from mister Perry, and talked on
• 3:18:34
  Speaker 1: with much self contentment, totally unsuspicious of what they could
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: have told him in return. As long as mister Knightley
• 3:18:40
  Speaker 1: remained with them, Emma's fever continued. But when he was
• 3:18:43
  Speaker 1: gone she began to be a little tranquilized and subdued.
• 3:18:46
  Speaker 1: And in the course of the sleepless night, which was
• 3:18:48
  Speaker 1: the tax for such an evening, she found one or
• 3:18:52
  Speaker 1: two such very serious points to consider, as made her
• 3:18:55
  Speaker 1: feel that even her happiness must have some alloy her
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 1: father and Harriet. She could not be alone without feeling
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: the full weight of their separate claims, and how to
• 3:19:05
  Speaker 1: guard the comfort of both to the utmost was the
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 1: question with respect to her father. It was a question
• 3:19:11
  Speaker 1: soon answered. She hardly knew yet what mister Knightley would ask,
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 1: but a very short parley with her own heart produced
• 3:19:18
  Speaker 1: the most solemn resolution of never quitting her father de
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 1: She even wept over the idea of it, as a
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: sin of thought. While he lived, it must be only
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 1: an engagement. But she flattered herself that if divested of
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 1: the danger of drawing her away, it might become an
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: increase of comfort to him. Dot how to do her
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: best by Harriet was of more difficult decision, how to
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 1: spare her from any unnecessary pain, how to make her
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 1: any possible atonement, how to appear least her enemy. On
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 1: these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great, and
• 3:19:50
  Speaker 1: her mind had to pass again and again through every
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 1: bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surrounded it.
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 1: That she could only resolve at last that she would
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 1: still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 1: need be told by letter, that it would be inexpressibly
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 1: desirable to have her removed just now for a time
• 3:20:07
  Speaker 1: from Highbury, and indulging in one scheme more nearly resolve
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 1: that it might be practicable to get an invitation for
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 1: her to Brunswick squareda. Isabella had been pleased with Harriet,
• 3:20:18
  Speaker 1: and a few weeks spent in London must give her
• 3:20:20
  Speaker 1: some amusement. She did not think it in Harriet's nature
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: to escape being benefited by novelty and variety, by the streets,
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: the shops and the children. At any rate, it would
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 1: be a proof of attention and kindness in herself, from
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 1: whom every thing was due, a separation for the present,
• 3:20:36
  Speaker 1: and averting of the evil day when they must all
• 3:20:39
  Speaker 1: be together again. She rose early and wrote her letter
• 3:20:42
  Speaker 1: to Harriet, an employment which left her so very serious,
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 1: so nearly sad, that mister Knightley, in walking up to
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon,
• 3:20:52
  Speaker 1: and half an hour stolen afterwards. To go over the
• 3:20:55
  Speaker 1: same ground again with him, literally and figuratively, was quite
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 1: necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: happiness of the evening before. He had not left her long,
• 3:21:05
  Speaker 1: by no means, long enough for her to have the
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: slightest inclination for thinking of any body else. When a
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: letter was brought her from Randall's, a very thick letter,
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: she guessed what it must contain and deprecated the necessity
• 3:21:17
  Speaker 1: of reading it. She was now in perfect charity with
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 1: Frank Churchill. She wanted no explanations. She wanted only to
• 3:21:23
  Speaker 1: have her thoughts to herself, and as for understanding anything
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 1: he wrote, she was sure she was incapable of it.
• 3:21:29
  Speaker 1: It must be waded through. However, she opened the packet,
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: it was too surely so a note from Missus Weston
• 3:21:36
  Speaker 1: to herself ushered in the letter from Frank to Missus Weston.
• 3:21:40
  Speaker 1: I have the greatest pleasure, my dear Emma, in forwarding
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 1: to you the enclosed. I know what thorough justice you
• 3:21:47
  Speaker 1: will do it, and have scarcely a doubt of its
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 1: happy effect. I think we shall never materially disagree about
• 3:21:53
  Speaker 1: the writer again, but I will not delay you by
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: a long preface. We are quite welled. This letter has
• 3:21:59
  Speaker 1: been the cure of all the little nervousness I have
• 3:22:01
  Speaker 1: been feeling lately. Dot. I did not quite like your
• 3:22:04
  Speaker 1: looks on Tuesday, but it was an ungenial morning, and
• 3:22:07
  Speaker 1: though you will never own being affected by weather, I
• 3:22:10
  Speaker 1: think every body feels a northeast wind. I felt for
• 3:22:14
  Speaker 1: your dear father very much in the storm of Tuesday
• 3:22:16
  Speaker 1: afternoon and yesterday morning, but had the comfort of hearing
• 3:22:19
  Speaker 1: last night by mister Perry that it had not made
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 1: him ill. Yours ever w to missus Weston windsor July m. Why,
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 1: dear m Adam, if I made myself intelligible yesterday, this
• 3:22:34
  Speaker 1: letter will be expected. But expected or not, I know
• 3:22:37
  Speaker 1: it will be read with candor and indulgenced. You are
• 3:22:40
  Speaker 1: all goodness, and I believe there will be need of
• 3:22:42
  Speaker 1: even all your goodness to allow for some parts of
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 1: my past conduct. But I have been forgiven by one
• 3:22:47
  Speaker 1: who had still more to resent. My courage rises while
• 3:22:51
  Speaker 1: I write it is very difficult for the prosperous to
• 3:22:54
  Speaker 1: be humble. I have already met with such success in
• 3:22:57
  Speaker 1: two applications for pardon that I may be in danger
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: of thinking myself too sure of yours and of those
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 1: among your friends who have had any ground of offense
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 1: to you. Must all endeavor to comprehend the exact nature
• 3:23:09
  Speaker 1: of my situation when I first arrived at Randall's. You
• 3:23:12
  Speaker 1: must consider me as having a secret which was to
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 1: be kept at all hazards. This was the fact. My
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 1: right to place myself in a situation requiring such concealment
• 3:23:22
  Speaker 1: is another question. I shall not discuss it here, for
• 3:23:26
  Speaker 1: my temptation to think it aright. I refer every Caviller
• 3:23:30
  Speaker 1: to a brick house sashed windows below and casements above
• 3:23:34
  Speaker 1: in Highbury. I dared not address her openly. My difficulties
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 1: in the then state of Enscull must be too well
• 3:23:40
  Speaker 1: known to require definition. And I was fortunate enough to
• 3:23:43
  Speaker 1: prevail before we parted at Weymouth, and to induce the
• 3:23:46
  Speaker 1: most upright female mind in the creation to stoop and
• 3:23:49
  Speaker 1: charity to a secret engagement dot. Had she refused, I
• 3:23:52
  Speaker 1: should have gone mad, Dot. But you will be ready
• 3:23:55
  Speaker 1: to say, what was your hope in doing this? What
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 1: did you look forward to? To any thing? Everything, to time, chance, circumstance,
• 3:24:04
  Speaker 1: slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sickness,
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 1: Every possibility of good was before me, and the first
• 3:24:12
  Speaker 1: of blessings secured in obtaining her promises of faith and correspondence.
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 1: If you need farther explanation, I have the honor, my
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 1: dear Madam, of being your husband's son, and the advantage
• 3:24:24
  Speaker 1: of inheriting a disposition to hope for good, which no
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 1: inheritance of houses or lands can ever equal the value
• 3:24:29
  Speaker 1: of DOT. See me then, under these circumstances, arriving on
• 3:24:34
  Speaker 1: my first visit to Randall's, and here I am conscious
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: of wrong for that visit might have been sooner paid.
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: You will look back and see that I did not
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 1: come till Miss Fairfax was in Highbury, and as you
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 1: were the person slighted, you will forgive me instantly. But
• 3:24:48
  Speaker 1: I must work on my father's compassion by reminding him
• 3:24:51
  Speaker 1: that so long as I absented myself from his house,
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: so long I lost the blessing of knowing you. My
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 1: behavior during the very happy fortnight which I spent with
• 3:25:00
  Speaker 1: you did not, I hope, lay me open to reprehension,
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: excepting on one point. And now I come to the
• 3:25:07
  Speaker 1: principle the only important part of my conduct while belonging
• 3:25:10
  Speaker 1: to you which excites my own anxiety or requires very
• 3:25:13
  Speaker 1: solicitous explanation, With the greatest respect and the warmest friendship,
• 3:25:19
  Speaker 1: do I mention Miss Woodhouse. My father perhaps will think
• 3:25:22
  Speaker 1: I ought to add, with the deepest humiliation A few
• 3:25:25
  Speaker 1: words which dropped from him yesterday spoke his opinion and
• 3:25:28
  Speaker 1: some censure. I acknowledge myself liable to DOT. My behavior
• 3:25:31
  Speaker 1: to Miss Woodhouse indicated I believe more than it ought Dot,
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 1: in order to assist a concealment so essential to me,
• 3:25:39
  Speaker 1: I was led on to make more than an allowable
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 1: use of the sort of intimacy into which we were
• 3:25:43
  Speaker 1: immediately throned. I cannot deny that Miss Woodhouse was my
• 3:25:47
  Speaker 1: ostensible object, but I am sure you will believe the
• 3:25:50
  Speaker 1: declaration that had I not been convinced of her indifference,
• 3:25:53
  Speaker 1: I would not have been induced by any selfish views
• 3:25:55
  Speaker 1: to go on. Amiable and delightful as Miss Woodhouse is,
• 3:26:00
  Speaker 1: she never gave me the idea of a young woman
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 1: likely to be attached, and that she was perfectly free
• 3:26:05
  Speaker 1: from any tendency to being attached to me was as
• 3:26:07
  Speaker 1: much my conviction as my wish to. She received my
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 1: attentions with an easy, friendly, goodemored playfulness, which exactly suited me.
• 3:26:15
  Speaker 1: We seemed to understand each other from our relative situation.
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: Those attentions were her due and were felt to be so.
• 3:26:22
  Speaker 1: Dot Whether Miss Woodhouse began really to understand me before
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: the expiration of that fortnight, I cannot say. When I
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: called to take leave of her, I remember that I
• 3:26:32
  Speaker 1: was within a moment of confessing the truth, and I
• 3:26:34
  Speaker 1: then fancied she was not without suspicion. But I have
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: no doubt of her having since detected me At least
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: in some degree. She may not have surmised the whole,
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 1: but her quickness must have penetrated a part. I cannot
• 3:26:48
  Speaker 1: doubt it. You will find, whenever the subject becomes freed
• 3:26:51
  Speaker 1: from its present restraints, that it did not take her
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 1: wholly by surprise. She frequently gave me hints of it.
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 1: I remember her telling me at the ball that I
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: owed missus Elton gratitude for her attentions to Miss Fairfax.
• 3:27:04
  Speaker 1: I hope this history of my conduct towards her will
• 3:27:06
  Speaker 1: be admitted by you and my father as great extenuation
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 1: of what you saw amiss. While you considered me as
• 3:27:12
  Speaker 1: having sinned against Emma Woodhouse. I could deserve nothing from
• 3:27:15
  Speaker 1: either acquit me here and procure for me when it
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 1: is allowable, the acquittal and good wishes of that said
• 3:27:22
  Speaker 1: Emma Woodhouse, whom I regard with so much brotherly affection
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 1: as to long to have her as deeply and as
• 3:27:27
  Speaker 1: happily in love as myself did. Whatever strange things I
• 3:27:30
  Speaker 1: said or did during that fortnight, you have now a
• 3:27:33
  Speaker 1: key to my heart was in Highbury, and my business
• 3:27:36
  Speaker 1: was to get my body thither as often as might be,
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: and with the least suspicion. If you remember any queernesses
• 3:27:43
  Speaker 1: set them all to the right account. Dot, of the
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 1: Pianofortes so much talked of, I feel it only necessary
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: to say that its being ordered was absolutely unknown to
• 3:27:53
  Speaker 1: Miss f who would never have allowed me to send
• 3:27:55
  Speaker 1: it had any choice been given her Dot. The delicacy
• 3:27:58
  Speaker 1: of her mind throughout the whole engagement, my dear madam,
• 3:28:01
  Speaker 1: is much beyond my power of doing justice to you.
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 1: Will soon, I earnestly hope know her thoroughly yourself. Dot.
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 1: No description can describe her. She must tell you herself
• 3:28:12
  Speaker 1: what she is, yet not by word, For never was
• 3:28:15
  Speaker 1: there a human creature who would so designedly suppress her
• 3:28:17
  Speaker 1: own merit. Since I began this letter, which will be
• 3:28:20
  Speaker 1: longer than I foresaw, I have heard from her Dot.
• 3:28:23
  Speaker 1: She gives a good account of her own health. But
• 3:28:26
  Speaker 1: as she never complains, I dare not depend I want
• 3:28:30
  Speaker 1: to have your opinion of her looks. I know you
• 3:28:33
  Speaker 1: will soon call on her. She is living in dread
• 3:28:36
  Speaker 1: of the visit. Perhaps it is paid already. Let me
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: hear from you without delay. I am impatient for a
• 3:28:42
  Speaker 1: thousand particulars. Remember how few minutes I was at Randall's
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 1: and in how bewildered, how mad estate, And I am
• 3:28:49
  Speaker 1: not much better, yet still insane, either from happiness or misery.
• 3:28:54
  Speaker 1: When I think of the kindness and favor I have
• 3:28:56
  Speaker 1: met with, of her excellence and patience, and my uncle's
• 3:28:59
  Speaker 1: generous I am mad with joy. But when I recollect
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 1: all the uneasiness I occasioned her, and how little I
• 3:29:05
  Speaker 1: deserve to be forgiven, I am mad with anger. If
• 3:29:09
  Speaker 1: I could but see her again, But I must not
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 1: propose it yet my uncle has been too good for
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 1: me to encroach. Dot I must still add to this
• 3:29:17
  Speaker 1: long letter. You have not heard all that you ought
• 3:29:20
  Speaker 1: to hear. I could not give any connected detail yesterday.
• 3:29:24
  Speaker 1: But the suddenness, and in one light, the unseasonableness with
• 3:29:27
  Speaker 1: which the affair burst out, needs explanation. For though the
• 3:29:31
  Speaker 1: event of the twenty sixth ultimate, as you will conclude,
• 3:29:35
  Speaker 1: immediately open to me the happiest prospects, I should not
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 1: have presumed on such early measures, but from the very
• 3:29:40
  Speaker 1: particular circumstances which left me not an hour to lose,
• 3:29:45
  Speaker 1: I should myself have shrunk from any thing so hasty,
• 3:29:48
  Speaker 1: and she would have felt every scruple of mine with
• 3:29:50
  Speaker 1: multiplied strength and refinement. But I had no choice the
• 3:29:55
  Speaker 1: hasty engagement she had entered into with that woman. Here,
• 3:29:58
  Speaker 1: my dear Madam, I obliged to leave off abruptly to
• 3:30:02
  Speaker 1: recollect and compose myself to I have been walking over
• 3:30:04
  Speaker 1: the country, and am now, I hope, rational enough to
• 3:30:08
  Speaker 1: make the rest of my letter what it ought to be. Dot.
• 3:30:10
  Speaker 1: It is, in fact a most mortifying retrospect for me.
• 3:30:14
  Speaker 1: I behaved shamefully, and here I can admit that my
• 3:30:18
  Speaker 1: manners to Miss w In being unpleasant to Miss f
• 3:30:21
  Speaker 1: were highly blameable. She disapproved them, which ought to have
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 1: been enough to my plea of concealing the truth. She
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 1: did not think sufficient that she was displeased, I thought
• 3:30:32
  Speaker 1: unreasonably so. I thought her, on a thousand occasions unnecessarily
• 3:30:37
  Speaker 1: scrupulous and cautious. I thought her even cold. But she
• 3:30:41
  Speaker 1: was always right. If I had followed her judgment and
• 3:30:44
  Speaker 1: subdued my spirits to the level of what she deemed proper,
• 3:30:47
  Speaker 1: I should have escaped the greatest unhappiness I have ever known.
• 3:30:50
  Speaker 1: We quarreled, Dot. Do you remember the morning spent at Donwell?
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 1: There every little dissatisfaction that had occurred before came to
• 3:30:57
  Speaker 1: a crisis. I was late. I met her walking home
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: by herself, and wanted to walk with her, but she
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: would not suffer it. She absolutely refused to allow me,
• 3:31:07
  Speaker 1: which I then thought most unreasonable. Now, however, I see
• 3:31:12
  Speaker 1: nothing in it but a very natural and consistent degree
• 3:31:14
  Speaker 1: of discretion. While I, to blind the world to our engagement,
• 3:31:19
  Speaker 1: was behaving one hour with objectionable particularity to another woman.
• 3:31:23
  Speaker 1: Was she to be consending the next to a proposal
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 1: which might have made every previous caution useless. Had we
• 3:31:29
  Speaker 1: been met walking together between Donwell and Highbury, the truth
• 3:31:32
  Speaker 1: must have been suspected. I was mad enough, however, to
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: resent I doubted her affection. I doubted it more the
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 1: next day on box Hill, when provoked by such conduct
• 3:31:42
  Speaker 1: on my side, such shameful, insolent neglect of her, and
• 3:31:46
  Speaker 1: such apparent devotion to miss w as it would have
• 3:31:49
  Speaker 1: been impossible for any woman of sense to endure, she
• 3:31:52
  Speaker 1: spoke her resentment in a form of words perfectly intelligible
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 1: to mita. In short, my dear madam, it was a quarrel,
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 1: blameless on her side, abominable on mine. And I returned
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 1: the same evening to Richmond though I might have stayed
• 3:32:05
  Speaker 1: with you till the next morning, merely because I would
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 1: be as angry with her as possible. Even then, I
• 3:32:11
  Speaker 1: was not such a fool as not to mean to
• 3:32:13
  Speaker 1: be reconciled in time. But I was the injured person,
• 3:32:16
  Speaker 1: injured by her coldness, and I went away determined that
• 3:32:18
  Speaker 1: she should make the first advances. I shall always congratulate
• 3:32:21
  Speaker 1: myself that you were not of the box Hill party.
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 1: Had you witnessed my behavior there, I can hardly suppose
• 3:32:27
  Speaker 1: you would ever have thought well of me again. Its
• 3:32:30
  Speaker 1: effect upon her appears in the immediate resolution it produced.
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: As soon as she found I was really gone from Randall's,
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 1: she closed with the offer of that officious missus Elton,
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 1: the whole system of whose treatment of her by the
• 3:32:41
  Speaker 1: bye has ever filled me with indignation and hatred. I
• 3:32:46
  Speaker 1: must not quarrel with a spirit of forbearance which has
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 1: been so richly extended towards myself. But otherwise I should
• 3:32:52
  Speaker 1: loudly protest against the share of it which that woman
• 3:32:55
  Speaker 1: has known. Jane. Indeed, you will observe that I have
• 3:32:58
  Speaker 1: not yet indulged myself, and calling her by that name,
• 3:33:01
  Speaker 1: even to you think, then what I must have endured
• 3:33:05
  Speaker 1: in hearing it bandied between the Eltons with all the
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: vulgarity of needless repetition and all the insolence of imaginary superiority.
• 3:33:12
  Speaker 1: Have patience with me. I shall soon have done dat.
• 3:33:15
  Speaker 1: She closed with this offer, resolving to break with me entirely,
• 3:33:20
  Speaker 1: and wrote the next day to tell me that we
• 3:33:21
  Speaker 1: never were to meet again. She felt the engagement to
• 3:33:24
  Speaker 1: be a source of repentance and misery to each she
• 3:33:27
  Speaker 1: dissolved it. This letter reached me on the very morning
• 3:33:29
  Speaker 1: of my poor aunt's death. I answered it within an hour,
• 3:33:33
  Speaker 1: but from the confusion of my mind and the multiplicity
• 3:33:36
  Speaker 1: of business falling on me at once, my answer, instead
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: of being sent with all the many other letters of
• 3:33:41
  Speaker 1: that day, was locked up in my writing desk, and I,
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 1: trusting that I had written enough, Though but a few
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 1: lines to satisfy her, remained without any uneasiness to I
• 3:33:51
  Speaker 1: was rather disappointed that I did not hear from her
• 3:33:53
  Speaker 1: again speedily, But I made excuses for her, and was
• 3:33:57
  Speaker 1: too busy, and may I add too cheerful, and I
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 1: views to be captised. We removed to Windsor, and two
• 3:34:03
  Speaker 1: days afterwards I received a parcel from her my own
• 3:34:06
  Speaker 1: letters all returned, and a few lines at the same
• 3:34:10
  Speaker 1: time by the post, stating her extreme surprise at not
• 3:34:13
  Speaker 1: having had the smallest reply to her last, and adding
• 3:34:16
  Speaker 1: that as silence on such a point could not be misconstrued,
• 3:34:19
  Speaker 1: and as it must be equally desirable to both to
• 3:34:21
  Speaker 1: have every subordinate arrangement concluded as soon as possible, She
• 3:34:24
  Speaker 1: now sent me by a safe conveyance all my letters
• 3:34:29
  Speaker 1: and requested that if I could not directly command hers
• 3:34:32
  Speaker 1: so as to send them to Highbury within a week,
• 3:34:34
  Speaker 1: I would forward them after that period to her at
• 3:34:36
  Speaker 1: In short, the full direction to mister Smallridge's near Bristol.
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: Stared me in the face. I knew the name, the place,
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: I knew all about it, and instantly saw what she
• 3:34:46
  Speaker 1: had been doing. It was perfectly accordant with that resolution
• 3:34:50
  Speaker 1: of character which I knew her to possess, and the
• 3:34:53
  Speaker 1: secrecy she had maintained as to any such design in
• 3:34:56
  Speaker 1: her former letter was equally descriptive of its anxious delicacy
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 1: for the world. Would not she have seemed to threaten me?
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 1: Dot imagine the shock? Imagine how till I had actually
• 3:35:07
  Speaker 1: detected my own blunder. I raved at the blunders of
• 3:35:10
  Speaker 1: the post. What was to be done one thing only,
• 3:35:12
  Speaker 1: Dot I must speak to my uncle without his sanction.
• 3:35:16
  Speaker 1: I could not hope to be listened to again. Dot
• 3:35:18
  Speaker 1: I spoke. Circumstances were in my favor. The late event
• 3:35:23
  Speaker 1: had softened away his pride, and he was earlier than
• 3:35:26
  Speaker 1: I could have anticipated, wholly reconciled and complying, and could say,
• 3:35:30
  Speaker 1: at last, poor man, with a deep sigh, that he
• 3:35:34
  Speaker 1: wished I might find as much happiness in the marriage
• 3:35:36
  Speaker 1: state as he had done. Dot I felt that it
• 3:35:39
  Speaker 1: would be of a different sort. Are you disposed to
• 3:35:42
  Speaker 1: pity me for what I must have suffered in opening
• 3:35:44
  Speaker 1: the cause to him? For my suspense while all was
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 1: at stake? No, do not pity me till I reached
• 3:35:49
  Speaker 1: Highbury and saw how ill I had made her. Do
• 3:35:52
  Speaker 1: not pity me till I saw her wan sick looks.
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: Dot I reached Highbury at the time of day when
• 3:35:58
  Speaker 1: from my knowledge of their late breakfast hour, I was
• 3:36:01
  Speaker 1: certain of a good chance of finding her alone. I
• 3:36:03
  Speaker 1: was not disappointed, And at last I was not disappointed
• 3:36:06
  Speaker 1: either in the object of my journey. A great deal
• 3:36:09
  Speaker 1: of very reasonable, very just displeasure, I had to persuade away.
• 3:36:14
  Speaker 1: But it is done. We are reconciled, dearer, much dearer
• 3:36:17
  Speaker 1: than ever, and no moment's uneasiness can ever occur between
• 3:36:21
  Speaker 1: us again. Now, my dear madam, I will release you,
• 3:36:25
  Speaker 1: but I could not conclude before a thousand and a
• 3:36:28
  Speaker 1: thousand thanks for all the kindness you have ever shown me,
• 3:36:31
  Speaker 1: and ten thousand for the attentions your heart will dictate
• 3:36:33
  Speaker 1: towards her dot. If you think me in a way
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: to be happier than I deserve, I am quite of
• 3:36:37
  Speaker 1: your opinion. Miss W calls me the child of good fortune.
• 3:36:42
  Speaker 1: I hope she is right. In one respect. My good
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 1: fortune is undoubted that of being able to subscribe myself
• 3:36:49
  Speaker 1: your obliged and affectionate son F. C. W. S and C. Hirschel,
• 3:36:55
  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen. This letter must make its way to Emma's feelings.
• 3:36:59
  Speaker 1: She was obliged, in spite of her previous determination to
• 3:37:02
  Speaker 1: the contrary, to do it all the justice that Missus
• 3:37:04
  Speaker 1: Weston foretold. As soon as she came to her own name,
• 3:37:08
  Speaker 1: it was irresistible. Every line relating to herself was interesting,
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 1: and almost every line agreeable. And when this charm ceased,
• 3:37:15
  Speaker 1: the subject could still maintain itself by the natural return
• 3:37:19
  Speaker 1: of her former regard for the writer, and the very
• 3:37:22
  Speaker 1: strong attraction which any picture of love must have for her.
• 3:37:25
  Speaker 1: At that moment, she never stopped till she had gone
• 3:37:28
  Speaker 1: through the whole. And though it was impossible not to
• 3:37:30
  Speaker 1: feel that he had been wrong, yet he had been
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 1: less wrong than she had supposed, and he had suffered
• 3:37:35
  Speaker 1: and was very sorry. And he was so grateful to
• 3:37:38
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston, and so much in love with miss Fairfax.
• 3:37:42
  Speaker 1: And she was so happy herself that there was no
• 3:37:44
  Speaker 1: being severe. And could he have entered the room, she
• 3:37:47
  Speaker 1: must have shaken hands with him as heartily as ever.
• 3:37:50
  Speaker 1: She thought so well of the letter that when mister
• 3:37:53
  Speaker 1: Knightley came again, she desired him to read it. She
• 3:37:57
  Speaker 1: was sure of Missus Weston's wishing it to be communicated,
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 1: specially to one who, like mister Knightley, had seen so
• 3:38:03
  Speaker 1: much to blame in his conduct. I shall be very
• 3:38:06
  Speaker 1: glad to look it over, said he. But it seems long.
• 3:38:10
  Speaker 1: I will take it home with me at night. But
• 3:38:13
  Speaker 1: that would not do. Mister Weston was to call in
• 3:38:16
  Speaker 1: the evening, and she must return it by him. I
• 3:38:19
  Speaker 1: would rather be talking to you, he replied, But as
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: it seems a matter of justice, it shall be done.
• 3:38:26
  Speaker 1: He began, stopping, however, almost directly, to say, had I
• 3:38:30
  Speaker 1: been offered the sight of one of this gentleman's letters
• 3:38:32
  Speaker 1: to his mother in law a few months ago, Emma,
• 3:38:34
  Speaker 1: it would not have been taken with such indifference. He
• 3:38:37
  Speaker 1: proceeded a little farther, reading to himself, and then with
• 3:38:41
  Speaker 1: a smile, observed, humph, a fine complimentary opening. But it
• 3:38:46
  Speaker 1: is his way. One man's style must not be the
• 3:38:49
  Speaker 1: rule of another's. We will not be severe. It will
• 3:38:54
  Speaker 1: be natural for me, he added shortly afterwards, to speak
• 3:38:57
  Speaker 1: my opinion aloud as I read. By doing it, I
• 3:39:01
  Speaker 1: shall feel that I am near you. It will not
• 3:39:03
  Speaker 1: be so great a loss of time. But if you
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 1: dislike it not at all, I should wish it. Mister
• 3:39:10
  Speaker 1: Knightley returned to his reading with greater alacrity. He trifles here,
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 1: said he, as to the temptation. He knows he is
• 3:39:18
  Speaker 1: wrong and has nothing rational to urge bad dot. He
• 3:39:23
  Speaker 1: ought not to have formed the engagement his father's disposition.
• 3:39:27
  Speaker 1: He is unjust. However, to his father, mister Weston's sanguine
• 3:39:31
  Speaker 1: temper was a blessing on all his upright and honorable exertions.
• 3:39:34
  Speaker 1: But mister Weston earned every present comfort before he endeavored
• 3:39:37
  Speaker 1: to gain it. Very true, he did not come till
• 3:39:40
  Speaker 1: Miss Fairfax was here. And I have not forgotten, said, Emma,
• 3:39:44
  Speaker 1: how sure you were that he might have come sooner
• 3:39:46
  Speaker 1: if he would you pass it over very handsomely. But
• 3:39:50
  Speaker 1: you were perfectly right. I was not quite impartial in
• 3:39:53
  Speaker 1: my judgment, Emma. But yet I think had you not
• 3:39:57
  Speaker 1: been in the case, I should still have distrusted him.
• 3:40:00
  Speaker 1: When he came to Miss Woodhouse, he was obliged to
• 3:40:03
  Speaker 1: read the whole of it aloud, all that related to her,
• 3:40:06
  Speaker 1: with a smile, a look, a shake of the head,
• 3:40:09
  Speaker 1: a word or two of assent or disapprobation, or merely
• 3:40:12
  Speaker 1: of love, as the subject required. Concluding, however, seriously and
• 3:40:17
  Speaker 1: after steady reflection, Thus very bad though it might have
• 3:40:22
  Speaker 1: been worst it playing a most dangerous game, too much
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 1: indebted to the event for his acquittal, no judge of
• 3:40:28
  Speaker 1: his own manners, by udot, always deceived in fact by
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 1: his own wishes, and regardless of little besides his own
• 3:40:34
  Speaker 1: convenienced fancying you to have fathomed his secret, natural enough
• 3:40:39
  Speaker 1: his own mind full of intrigue that he should suspect
• 3:40:43
  Speaker 1: it in others. Mystery finesse how they pervert the understanding
• 3:40:48
  Speaker 1: my Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more
• 3:40:51
  Speaker 1: and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all
• 3:40:53
  Speaker 1: our dealings with each other. Emma agreed to it, and
• 3:40:57
  Speaker 1: with a blush of sensibility on Harriet's account which she
• 3:41:00
  Speaker 1: could not give any sincere explanation of you had better
• 3:41:03
  Speaker 1: go on, said she. He did so, but very soon
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 1: stopped again to say the pianoforte ah, that was the
• 3:41:12
  Speaker 1: act of a very very young man, one too young
• 3:41:15
  Speaker 1: to consider whether the inconvenience of it might not very
• 3:41:18
  Speaker 1: much exceed the pleasure a boyish scheme. Indeed, I cannot
• 3:41:23
  Speaker 1: comprehend a man's wishing to give a woman any proof
• 3:41:26
  Speaker 1: of affection which he knows she would rather dispense with.
• 3:41:29
  Speaker 1: And he did know that she would have prevented the
• 3:41:30
  Speaker 1: instruments coming if she could. After this he made some
• 3:41:34
  Speaker 1: progress without any pause. Frank Churchill's confession of having behaved
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 1: shamefully was the first thing to call for more than
• 3:41:41
  Speaker 1: a word in passing. I perfectly agree with you, sir,
• 3:41:45
  Speaker 1: was then his remark you did behave very shamefully. You
• 3:41:50
  Speaker 1: never wrote a truer line. And having gone through what
• 3:41:53
  Speaker 1: immediately followed of the basis of their disagreement and is
• 3:41:56
  Speaker 1: persisting to act in direct opposition to Jane Fairfax's sense
• 3:41:59
  Speaker 1: of right, he made a fuller pause to say, this
• 3:42:02
  Speaker 1: is very bad dot. He had induced her to place herself,
• 3:42:06
  Speaker 1: for his sake, in a situation of extreme difficulty and uneasiness,
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 1: and it should have been his first object to prevent
• 3:42:13
  Speaker 1: her from suffering unnecessarily. She must have had much more
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 1: to contend with in carrying on the correspondence than he could.
• 3:42:20
  Speaker 1: He should have respected even unreasonable scruples had there been such,
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 1: but hers were all reasonable. We must look to her
• 3:42:28
  Speaker 1: one fault and remember that she had done a wrong
• 3:42:30
  Speaker 1: thing in consenting to the engagement to bear that she
• 3:42:33
  Speaker 1: should have been in such a state of punishment. Emma
• 3:42:36
  Speaker 1: knew that he was now getting to the box Hill party,
• 3:42:38
  Speaker 1: and grew uncomfortable. Her own behavior had been so very improper.
• 3:42:44
  Speaker 1: She was deeply ashamed and a little afraid of his
• 3:42:46
  Speaker 1: next look. It was all read, however, steadily attentively and
• 3:42:51
  Speaker 1: without the smallest remark, and accepting one momentary glance at
• 3:42:55
  Speaker 1: her instantly withdrawn in the fear of giving pain. No
• 3:42:59
  Speaker 1: remembrance of box Hill seem to exist. There is no
• 3:43:02
  Speaker 1: saying much for the delicacy of our good friends, the Eltons,
• 3:43:06
  Speaker 1: was his next observation. His feelings are natural. Dot, what
• 3:43:12
  Speaker 1: actually resolved to break with him entirely? She felt the
• 3:43:15
  Speaker 1: engagement to be a source of repentance and misery to
• 3:43:17
  Speaker 1: each She dissolved it. Dot. What a view this gives
• 3:43:20
  Speaker 1: of her sense of his behavior. Well, he must be
• 3:43:23
  Speaker 1: a most extraordinary Nay, nay, read Honda, you will find
• 3:43:27
  Speaker 1: how very much he suffers. I hope he does, replied
• 3:43:31
  Speaker 1: mister Knightley coolly, and resuming the letter Smallridge. What does
• 3:43:36
  Speaker 1: this mean? What is all this? She had engaged to
• 3:43:40
  Speaker 1: go as governess to Missus Smalllridge's children, A dear friend
• 3:43:43
  Speaker 1: of missus Elton's, a neighbor of Maple Grove, And by
• 3:43:47
  Speaker 1: the bye, I wonder how Missus Elton bears the disappointment.
• 3:43:51
  Speaker 1: Say nothing, my dear Emma, while you oblige me to
• 3:43:54
  Speaker 1: read not even of Missus Elton, only one page more.
• 3:43:59
  Speaker 1: I shall He'll soon have done. What a letter the
• 3:44:02
  Speaker 1: man writes, I wish you would read it with a
• 3:44:05
  Speaker 1: kinder spirit towards him. Well, there is feeling here dot
• 3:44:09
  Speaker 1: he does seem to have suffered in finding her ill
• 3:44:11
  Speaker 1: dut Certainly I can have no doubt of his being
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 1: fond of her dearer, much dearer than ever. I hope
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: he may long continue to feel all the value of
• 3:44:22
  Speaker 1: such a reconciliation. He is a very liberal thanker, with
• 3:44:25
  Speaker 1: his thousands and tens of thousands, happier than I deserve. Come,
• 3:44:30
  Speaker 1: he knows himself. There Miss Woodhouse calls me the child
• 3:44:34
  Speaker 1: of good fortune? Those were Miss Woodhouse's words? Were they
• 3:44:39
  Speaker 1: in a fine ending? And there is the letter the
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 1: child of good Fortune? That was your name for him?
• 3:44:46
  Speaker 1: Was it? You do not appear so well satisfied with
• 3:44:49
  Speaker 1: his letter as I am, But still you must, at least,
• 3:44:52
  Speaker 1: I hope you must think the better of him for it.
• 3:44:55
  Speaker 1: I hope it does him some service with you, Yes,
• 3:44:59
  Speaker 1: certainly it does. He has had great faults, faults of
• 3:45:02
  Speaker 1: inconsideration and thoughtlessness, and I am very much of his
• 3:45:05
  Speaker 1: opinion in thinking him likely to be happier than he deserves.
• 3:45:09
  Speaker 1: But still as he is, beyond a doubt really attached
• 3:45:12
  Speaker 1: to Miss Fairfax, and will soon, it may be hoped,
• 3:45:15
  Speaker 1: have the advantage of being constantly with her. I am
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 1: very ready to believe his character will improve and acquire
• 3:45:21
  Speaker 1: from her as the steadiness and delicacy of principle that
• 3:45:24
  Speaker 1: it wants. And now let me talk to you of
• 3:45:27
  Speaker 1: something else. I have another person's interest at present, so
• 3:45:31
  Speaker 1: much at heart that I cannot think any longer about
• 3:45:33
  Speaker 1: Frank Churchill. Ever since I left you this morning, Emma,
• 3:45:37
  Speaker 1: my mind has been hard at work on one subject.
• 3:45:41
  Speaker 1: The subject followed. It was in plain, unaffected, gentlemanlike English,
• 3:45:45
  Speaker 1: such as mister Knightley used, even to the woman he
• 3:45:47
  Speaker 1: was in love with. How to be able to ask
• 3:45:49
  Speaker 1: her to marry him without attacking the happiness of her father.
• 3:45:53
  Speaker 1: Emma's answer was ready at the first word. While her
• 3:45:57
  Speaker 1: dear father lived, any change of condition must be in
• 3:46:00
  Speaker 1: possible for her. She could never quit him. Part only
• 3:46:04
  Speaker 1: of this answer, however, was admitted the impossibility of her
• 3:46:08
  Speaker 1: quitting her father. Mister Knightley felt as strongly as herself,
• 3:46:12
  Speaker 1: But the inadmissibility of any other change he could not
• 3:46:15
  Speaker 1: agree to. He had been thinking it over most deeply,
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 1: most intently. He had at first hoped to induce mister
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 1: Woodhouse to remove with her to Donwell. He had wanted
• 3:46:24
  Speaker 1: to believe it feasible, but his knowledge of mister Woodhouse
• 3:46:26
  Speaker 1: would not suffer him to deceive himself. Long and now
• 3:46:29
  Speaker 1: he confessed his persuasion that such a transplantation would be
• 3:46:33
  Speaker 1: a risk of her father's comfort, perhaps even of his life,
• 3:46:36
  Speaker 1: which must not be hazarded. Mister Woodhouse taken from Hartfield. No,
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 1: he felt that it ought not to be attempted. But
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: the plan which had arisen on the sacrifice of this
• 3:46:47
  Speaker 1: he trusted his dearest Emma would not find in any
• 3:46:49
  Speaker 1: respect objectionable. It was that he should be received at Hartfield,
• 3:46:53
  Speaker 1: that so long as her father's happiness, in other words,
• 3:46:56
  Speaker 1: his life required Hartfield to continue, her home should be his. Likewise,
• 3:47:02
  Speaker 1: of their all removing to Donwell. Emma had already had
• 3:47:05
  Speaker 1: her own passing thoughts. Like him. She had tried the
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 1: scheme and rejected it. But such an alternative as this
• 3:47:11
  Speaker 1: had not occurred to her. She was sensible of all
• 3:47:14
  Speaker 1: the affection it evinced. She felt that in quitting Donwell,
• 3:47:19
  Speaker 1: he must be sacrificing a great deal of independence of
• 3:47:21
  Speaker 1: ours and habits, that in living constantly with her father,
• 3:47:25
  Speaker 1: and in no house of his own, there would be much,
• 3:47:27
  Speaker 1: very much to be borne with. She promised to think
• 3:47:31
  Speaker 1: of it, and advised him to think of it more.
• 3:47:33
  Speaker 1: But he was fully convinced that no reflection could alter
• 3:47:36
  Speaker 1: his wishes or his opinion on the subject. He had
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 1: given it, he could assure her very long and calm consideration.
• 3:47:43
  Speaker 1: He had been walking away from William Larkins the whole
• 3:47:46
  Speaker 1: morning to have his thoughts to himself. Ah, there is
• 3:47:50
  Speaker 1: one difficulty unprovided for, cried Emma. I am sure William
• 3:47:55
  Speaker 1: Larkins will not like it. You must get his consent
• 3:47:58
  Speaker 1: before you ask mine. She promised, however, to think of it,
• 3:48:03
  Speaker 1: and pretty nearly promised moreover to think of it with
• 3:48:06
  Speaker 1: the intention of finding it a very good scheme. It
• 3:48:09
  Speaker 1: is remarkable that Emma, in the many, very many points
• 3:48:13
  Speaker 1: of view in which she was now beginning to consider
• 3:48:15
  Speaker 1: Donwell Abbey, was never struck with any sense of injury
• 3:48:18
  Speaker 1: to her nephew, Henry, whose rights as heir expectant had
• 3:48:21
  Speaker 1: formerly been so tenaciously regarded. Thinks she must of the
• 3:48:25
  Speaker 1: possible difference to the poor little boy, and yet she
• 3:48:27
  Speaker 1: only gave herself a saucy, conscious smile about it, and
• 3:48:30
  Speaker 1: found amusement in detecting the real cause of that violent
• 3:48:33
  Speaker 1: dislike of mister Knightley's marrying Jane Fairfax or anybody else,
• 3:48:38
  Speaker 1: which at the time she had wholly imputed to the
• 3:48:40
  Speaker 1: amiable solicitude of the sister and the aunt. This proposal
• 3:48:44
  Speaker 1: of his, this plan of marrying and continuing at Hartfield.
• 3:48:48
  Speaker 1: The more she contemplated it, the more pleasing it became.
• 3:48:51
  Speaker 1: His evil seemed to lessen her own advantages to increase
• 3:48:55
  Speaker 1: their mutual good, to outweigh every drawback. Such a companion
• 3:48:59
  Speaker 1: for her self in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness
• 3:49:02
  Speaker 1: before her, such a partner in all those duties and
• 3:49:04
  Speaker 1: cares to which time must be giving increase of melancholy.
• 3:49:08
  Speaker 1: She would have been too happy but for poor Harriet.
• 3:49:11
  Speaker 1: But every blessing of her own seemed to involve and
• 3:49:13
  Speaker 1: advance the sufferings of her friend, who must now be
• 3:49:16
  Speaker 1: even excluded from Hartfield. The delightful family party which Emma
• 3:49:20
  Speaker 1: was securing for herself. Poor Harriet must, in mere charitable caution,
• 3:49:25
  Speaker 1: be kept at a distance from she would be a
• 3:49:28
  Speaker 1: loser in every way. Emma could not deplore her future
• 3:49:31
  Speaker 1: absence as any deduction from her own enjoyment. In such
• 3:49:35
  Speaker 1: a party, Harriet would be rather a dead weight than otherwise.
• 3:49:38
  Speaker 1: But for the poor girl herself, it seemed a peculiarly
• 3:49:41
  Speaker 1: cruel necessity that was to be placing her in such
• 3:49:43
  Speaker 1: a state of unmerited punishment. In time, of course, mister
• 3:49:48
  Speaker 1: Knightley would be forgotten, that is supplanted, But this could
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 1: not be expected to happen very early. Mister Knightley himself
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 1: would be doing nothing to assist the cure, not like
• 3:49:58
  Speaker 1: mister Elton. Mister Knightley, always so kind, so feeling so
• 3:50:03
  Speaker 1: truly considerate for every body, would never deserve to be
• 3:50:06
  Speaker 1: less worshiped than now. And it really was too much
• 3:50:09
  Speaker 1: to hope, even of Harriet, that she could be in
• 3:50:11
  Speaker 1: love with more than three men in one year. Chapter sixteen.
• 3:50:15
  Speaker 1: It was a very great relief to Emma to find
• 3:50:17
  Speaker 1: Harriet as desirous as herself to avoid a meeting. Their
• 3:50:20
  Speaker 1: intercourse was painful enough by letter, how much worse had
• 3:50:24
  Speaker 1: they been obliged to meet. Harriet expressed herself very much
• 3:50:29
  Speaker 1: as might be supposed, without reproaches or apparent sense of
• 3:50:32
  Speaker 1: ill usage. And yet Emma fancied there was a something
• 3:50:35
  Speaker 1: of resentment, a something bordering on it in her style,
• 3:50:38
  Speaker 1: which increased the desirableness of their being separate. It might
• 3:50:42
  Speaker 1: be only her own consciousness, but it seemed as if
• 3:50:45
  Speaker 1: an angel only could have been quite without resentment under
• 3:50:47
  Speaker 1: such a stroke. She had no difficulty in procuring Isabella's invitation,
• 3:50:52
  Speaker 1: and she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for
• 3:50:54
  Speaker 1: asking it without resorting to invention. There was a tooth amiss.
• 3:50:59
  Speaker 1: Harriet wished, and had wished some time, to consult a dentist,
• 3:51:04
  Speaker 1: missus John Knightley was delighted to be of use. Any
• 3:51:07
  Speaker 1: thing of ill health was a recommendation to her, and
• 3:51:09
  Speaker 1: though not so fond of a dentist as of a
• 3:51:11
  Speaker 1: mister Wingfield, she was quite eager to have Harriet under
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 1: her care. DOT. When it was thus settled on her
• 3:51:17
  Speaker 1: sister's side, Emma proposed it to her friend and found
• 3:51:21
  Speaker 1: her very persuadable. Harriet was to go. She was invited
• 3:51:24
  Speaker 1: for at least a fortnight. She was to be conveyed
• 3:51:26
  Speaker 1: in mister Woodhouse's carriage. Dot. It was all arranged, it
• 3:51:30
  Speaker 1: was all completed, and Harriet was safe in Brunswick Square.
• 3:51:34
  Speaker 1: Now Emma could indeed enjoy mister Knightley's visits. Now she
• 3:51:38
  Speaker 1: could talk and she could listen, with true happiness, unchecked
• 3:51:41
  Speaker 1: by that sense of injustice, of guilt, of something most
• 3:51:44
  Speaker 1: painful which had haunted her when remembering how disappointed a
• 3:51:47
  Speaker 1: heart was near her, How much might at that moment
• 3:51:50
  Speaker 1: and at a little distance, be enduring by the feelings
• 3:51:54
  Speaker 1: which she had led astray herself. The difference of Harriet
• 3:51:57
  Speaker 1: at Missus Goddard's or in London made perhaps an unreasonable
• 3:52:01
  Speaker 1: difference in Emma's sensations. But she could not think of
• 3:52:03
  Speaker 1: her in London without objects of curiosity and employment, which
• 3:52:07
  Speaker 1: must be averting the past and carrying her out of herself.
• 3:52:10
  Speaker 1: She would not allow any other anxiety to succeed directly
• 3:52:14
  Speaker 1: to the place in her mind which Harriet had occupied.
• 3:52:17
  Speaker 1: There was a communication before her, one which she only
• 3:52:20
  Speaker 1: could be competent to make the confession of her engagement
• 3:52:22
  Speaker 1: to her father, but she would have nothing to do
• 3:52:25
  Speaker 1: with it at present. She had resolved to defer the
• 3:52:28
  Speaker 1: disclosure till Missus Weston were safe and well. No additional
• 3:52:33
  Speaker 1: agitation should be thrown at this period among those she loved,
• 3:52:36
  Speaker 1: and the evil should not act on herself by anticipation
• 3:52:39
  Speaker 1: before the appointed time, a fortnight at least of leisure
• 3:52:44
  Speaker 1: and peace of mind to crown every warmer, but more
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 1: agitating delight should be hers. She soon resolved equally as
• 3:52:52
  Speaker 1: a duty and a pleasure to employ half an hour
• 3:52:54
  Speaker 1: of this holiday of spirits in calling on Miss Fairfaxta.
• 3:52:57
  Speaker 1: She ought to go, and she was longing to see her,
• 3:53:01
  Speaker 1: the resemblance of their present situations increasing every other motive
• 3:53:05
  Speaker 1: of goodwill. It would be a secret satisfaction, but the
• 3:53:09
  Speaker 1: consciousness of a similarity of prospect would certainly add to
• 3:53:12
  Speaker 1: the interest with which she should attend to anything Jane
• 3:53:14
  Speaker 1: might communicate. She went. She had driven once unsuccessfully to
• 3:53:18
  Speaker 1: the door, but had not been into the house since
• 3:53:21
  Speaker 1: the morning after box Hill, when poor Jane had been
• 3:53:23
  Speaker 1: in such distress as had filled her with compassion, though
• 3:53:26
  Speaker 1: all the worst of her sufferings had been unsuspected, dot
• 3:53:29
  Speaker 1: the fear of being still unwelcome determined her, though assured
• 3:53:33
  Speaker 1: of their being at home, to wait in the passage
• 3:53:36
  Speaker 1: and send up her name. She heard Patty announcing it,
• 3:53:39
  Speaker 1: but no such bustle succeeded, as poor Miss Bates had
• 3:53:41
  Speaker 1: before made so happily intelligible. No, she heard nothing but
• 3:53:46
  Speaker 1: the instant reply of beg her to walk up, and
• 3:53:49
  Speaker 1: a moment afterwards she was met on the stairs by Jane, herself,
• 3:53:52
  Speaker 1: coming eagerly forward, as if no other reception of her
• 3:53:55
  Speaker 1: were felt sufficient. Emma had never seen her look so well,
• 3:53:58
  Speaker 1: so lovely, so engaged. There was consciousness, animation, and warmth.
• 3:54:04
  Speaker 1: There was everything which her countenance or manner could ever
• 3:54:06
  Speaker 1: have wanted. That. She came forward with an offered hand
• 3:54:09
  Speaker 1: and said, in a low but very feeling tone, this
• 3:54:13
  Speaker 1: is most kind. Indeed, Miss Woodhouse, it is impossible for
• 3:54:18
  Speaker 1: me to express I hope you will believe excuse me
• 3:54:21
  Speaker 1: for being so entirely without words. Emma was gratified, and
• 3:54:25
  Speaker 1: would soon have shown no want of words if the
• 3:54:28
  Speaker 1: sound of missus Elton's voice from the sitting room had
• 3:54:30
  Speaker 1: not checked her and made it expedient to compress all
• 3:54:33
  Speaker 1: her friendly and all her congratulatory sensations into a very
• 3:54:36
  Speaker 1: very earnest shake of the hand. Missus Bates and missus
• 3:54:40
  Speaker 1: Elton were together. Miss Bates was out, which accounted for
• 3:54:44
  Speaker 1: the previous tranquility. Emma could have wished Missus Elton elsewhere,
• 3:54:48
  Speaker 1: but she was in a humor to have patience with
• 3:54:50
  Speaker 1: every body, and as Missus Elton met her with unusual graciousness,
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 1: she hoped the rancandor would do them no harm. She
• 3:54:57
  Speaker 1: soon believed herself to penetrate Missus Elton's lin thoughts and
• 3:55:00
  Speaker 1: understand why she was like herself in happy spirits. It
• 3:55:04
  Speaker 1: was being in Miss Fairfax's confidence and fancying herself acquainted
• 3:55:08
  Speaker 1: with what was still a secret to other people. Emma
• 3:55:11
  Speaker 1: saw symptoms of it immediately in the expression of her face,
• 3:55:14
  Speaker 1: and while paying her own compliments to Missus Bates and
• 3:55:17
  Speaker 1: appearing to attend to the good old lady's replies, she
• 3:55:20
  Speaker 1: saw her, with a sort of anxious parade of mystery,
• 3:55:22
  Speaker 1: fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading
• 3:55:24
  Speaker 1: aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple
• 3:55:28
  Speaker 1: and gold reticule by her side, saying with significant nods,
• 3:55:32
  Speaker 1: we can finish this some other time. You know you
• 3:55:36
  Speaker 1: and I shall not want opportunities, And in fact you
• 3:55:40
  Speaker 1: have heard all the essential already. I only wanted to
• 3:55:43
  Speaker 1: prove to you that Missus s admits our apology and
• 3:55:46
  Speaker 1: is not offended. You see how delightfully she writes, Oh,
• 3:55:52
  Speaker 1: she is a sweet creature. You would have doted on
• 3:55:55
  Speaker 1: her had you gone, But not a word more. Let
• 3:55:59
  Speaker 1: us be discreet quite on our good behavior. Dot hush,
• 3:56:02
  Speaker 1: you remember those lines. I forget the poem at this moment,
• 3:56:05
  Speaker 1: for when a lady's in the case, you know, all
• 3:56:08
  Speaker 1: other things give place. Now, I say, my dear in
• 3:56:12
  Speaker 1: our case for lady read mum a word to the wise. Dot.
• 3:56:17
  Speaker 1: I am in a fine flow of spirits, aunt I,
• 3:56:20
  Speaker 1: but I want to set your heart at ease. As
• 3:56:22
  Speaker 1: to Missus Eston, my representation, you see, has quite appeased her.
• 3:56:27
  Speaker 1: And again, on Emma's merely turning her head to look
• 3:56:30
  Speaker 1: at Missus Bates's knitting, she added, in a half whisper,
• 3:56:34
  Speaker 1: I mention no names you will observe dot oh, no.
• 3:56:38
  Speaker 1: Cautious as a minister of state, I managed it extremely well.
• 3:56:43
  Speaker 1: Emma could not doubt it was a palpable display, repeated
• 3:56:47
  Speaker 1: on every possible occasion. When they had all talked a
• 3:56:51
  Speaker 1: little while in harmony of the weather and Missus Weston,
• 3:56:54
  Speaker 1: she found herself abruptly addressed with do not you think
• 3:56:57
  Speaker 1: miss Woodhouse, our saucy little friend here is charmingly recovered.
• 3:57:00
  Speaker 1: Do not you think her cure does Perry the highest credit?
• 3:57:03
  Speaker 1: Here was a side glance of great meaning at Jane.
• 3:57:06
  Speaker 1: Upon my word, Perry has restored her in a wonderful
• 3:57:09
  Speaker 1: short time. Oh, if you had seen her as I did,
• 3:57:13
  Speaker 1: when she was at the worst, and when missus Bates
• 3:57:17
  Speaker 1: was saying something to Emma whispered farther. We do not
• 3:57:19
  Speaker 1: say a word of any assistance that Perry might have,
• 3:57:22
  Speaker 1: not a word of a certain young physician from Windsordot. Oh, No,
• 3:57:27
  Speaker 1: Perry shall have all the credit I have. Scarce had
• 3:57:30
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of seeing you, Miss Woodhouse. She shortly afterwards
• 3:57:34
  Speaker 1: began since the party to box Hill. Very pleasant party,
• 3:57:39
  Speaker 1: But yet I think there was something wanting. Things did
• 3:57:42
  Speaker 1: not seem, that is, there seemed a little cloud upon
• 3:57:45
  Speaker 1: the spirits of sum Dot. So it appeared to me
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 1: at least, But I might be mistaken. However, I think
• 3:57:52
  Speaker 1: it answered so far as to tempt one to go again.
• 3:57:56
  Speaker 1: What say you both to our collecting the same party
• 3:57:58
  Speaker 1: and exploring to box Till again while the fine weather lasts.
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: It must be the same party, you know, quite the
• 3:58:04
  Speaker 1: same party, not one exception. Soon after this, Miss Bates
• 3:58:09
  Speaker 1: came in, and Emma could not help being diverted by
• 3:58:11
  Speaker 1: the perplexity of her first answer to herself, resulting she supposed,
• 3:58:15
  Speaker 1: from doubt of what might be said and impatience to
• 3:58:18
  Speaker 1: say everything. Thank you, dear miss Woodhouse, you are all kindness. Dot.
• 3:58:23
  Speaker 1: It is impossible to say yes. Indeed, I quite understand
• 3:58:29
  Speaker 1: dearest Jane's prospects. That is, I do not mean dot,
• 3:58:32
  Speaker 1: but she is charmingly recovered. How is mister Woodhouse. I
• 3:58:36
  Speaker 1: am so glad, quite out of my power, Dot, such
• 3:58:39
  Speaker 1: a happy little circle as you find us here Dot, Yes, indeed, Dot,
• 3:58:43
  Speaker 1: charming young man. That is so very friendly, I mean good,
• 3:58:47
  Speaker 1: mister Perry, such attention to Jane and from her great
• 3:58:52
  Speaker 1: her more than commonly thankful delight towards missus Elton for
• 3:58:56
  Speaker 1: being there. Emma guessed that there had been a little
• 3:58:58
  Speaker 1: show of resentment towards Jane from the vicarage quarter, which
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 1: was now graciously overcome Dot, after a few whispers, indeed,
• 3:59:06
  Speaker 1: which placed it beyond a guess. Missus Elton, speaking louder, said, yes,
• 3:59:11
  Speaker 1: here I am my good friend, and here I have
• 3:59:14
  Speaker 1: been so long that anywhere else I should think it
• 3:59:16
  Speaker 1: necessary to apologize. But the truth is that I am
• 3:59:19
  Speaker 1: waiting for my Lord and master. He promised to join
• 3:59:23
  Speaker 1: me here and pay his respects to you. What are
• 3:59:28
  Speaker 1: we to have the pleasure of a call from mister Elton?
• 3:59:30
  Speaker 1: That will be a favor, indeed, for I know gentlemen
• 3:59:34
  Speaker 1: do not like morning visits, and mister Elton's time is
• 3:59:36
  Speaker 1: so engaged. Upon my word, it is, Miss Batesta, he
• 3:59:41
  Speaker 1: really is engaged from morning to night. There is no
• 3:59:44
  Speaker 1: end of people's coming to him on some pretense or other. Dot.
• 3:59:47
  Speaker 1: The magistrates and overseers and churchwardens are always wanting his opinion.
• 3:59:53
  Speaker 1: They seem not able to do anything without him. Upon
• 3:59:56
  Speaker 1: my word, mister e I often say, rather, I do
• 4:00:01
  Speaker 1: not know what would become of my crayons and my
• 4:00:03
  Speaker 1: instrument if I had half so many applicants. Bad enough
• 4:00:08
  Speaker 1: as it is, for I absolutely neglect them both to
• 4:00:11
  Speaker 1: an unpardonable degreed. I believe I have not played a
• 4:00:14
  Speaker 1: bar this fortnight. However, he is coming, I assure you, yes,
• 4:00:18
  Speaker 1: indeed on purpose, to wait on you all. And putting
• 4:00:22
  Speaker 1: up her hand to screen her words from Emma, A
• 4:00:24
  Speaker 1: congratulatory visit, you know, dot, oh, yes, quite indispensable. Miss
• 4:00:31
  Speaker 1: Bates looked about her so happily he promised to come
• 4:00:34
  Speaker 1: to me as soon as he could disengage himself from Knightly.
• 4:00:37
  Speaker 1: But he and Knightly are shut up together in deep consultation.
• 4:00:40
  Speaker 1: Mister E is Knightley's right hand. Emma would not have
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 1: smiled for the world, and only said, is mister Elton
• 4:00:47
  Speaker 1: gone on foot to Donwell? He will have a hot walk?
• 4:00:51
  Speaker 1: Oh no, it is a meeting at the Crown, a
• 4:00:54
  Speaker 1: regular meeting. Weston and Cole will be there too, But
• 4:00:58
  Speaker 1: one is apt to speak only of those who lead dut.
• 4:01:01
  Speaker 1: I fancy mister E and Knightley have everything their own way.
• 4:01:05
  Speaker 1: Have not you mistaken the day? Said Emma, I am
• 4:01:08
  Speaker 1: almost certain that the meeting at the Crown is not
• 4:01:10
  Speaker 1: till tomorrow, duck. Mister Knightley was at Hartfield yesterday and
• 4:01:15
  Speaker 1: spoke of it as for Saturday. Oh no, the meeting
• 4:01:20
  Speaker 1: is certainly to day, was the abrupt answer, which denoted
• 4:01:23
  Speaker 1: the impossibility of any blunder on missus Elton's side. I
• 4:01:26
  Speaker 1: do believe, she continued, This is the most troublesome parish
• 4:01:29
  Speaker 1: that ever was. We never heard of such things at
• 4:01:33
  Speaker 1: Maple Grove, your parish there was small, said Jane. Upon
• 4:01:38
  Speaker 1: my word, my dear, I do not know, for I
• 4:01:41
  Speaker 1: never heard the subject talked of. But it is proved
• 4:01:44
  Speaker 1: by the smallness of the school which I have heard
• 4:01:46
  Speaker 1: you speak of, as under the patronage of your sister
• 4:01:49
  Speaker 1: and Missus Bragg, the only school, and not more than
• 4:01:52
  Speaker 1: five and twenty children. Ah, you clever creature, that's very true.
• 4:01:58
  Speaker 1: What a thinking brain you have, I say, Jane, what
• 4:02:02
  Speaker 1: a perfect character you and I should make if we
• 4:02:05
  Speaker 1: could be shaken together, My liveliness and your solidity would
• 4:02:09
  Speaker 1: produce perfection. Not that I presume to insinuate, however, that
• 4:02:13
  Speaker 1: some people may not think you perfection already. Dot, But hush,
• 4:02:16
  Speaker 1: not a word, if you please. It seemed an unnecessary caution.
• 4:02:22
  Speaker 1: Jane was wanting to give her words not to Missus Elton,
• 4:02:25
  Speaker 1: but to miss Woodhouse, as the latter plainly saw. The
• 4:02:29
  Speaker 1: wish of distinguishing her as far as civility permitted, was
• 4:02:32
  Speaker 1: very evident, though it could not often proceed beyond a look.
• 4:02:36
  Speaker 1: Mister Elton made his appearance, his lady greeted him with
• 4:02:40
  Speaker 1: some of her sparkling vivacity. Very pretty, sir, upon my
• 4:02:44
  Speaker 1: word to send me on here to be an encumbrance
• 4:02:47
  Speaker 1: to my friends. So long before you vouchsafed to come.
• 4:02:50
  Speaker 1: But you knew what a dutiful creature you had to
• 4:02:52
  Speaker 1: deal with. You knew I should not stir till my
• 4:02:55
  Speaker 1: Lord and master appeared. Dot here have I been sitting
• 4:02:59
  Speaker 1: this hour giving these young ladies a sample of true
• 4:03:02
  Speaker 1: conjugal obedience? For who can say you know how soon
• 4:03:05
  Speaker 1: it may be wanted. Mister Elton was so hot and
• 4:03:08
  Speaker 1: tired that all this would seem thrown away. His civilities
• 4:03:13
  Speaker 1: to the other ladies must be paid, But his subsequent
• 4:03:15
  Speaker 1: object was to lament over himself for the heat he
• 4:03:18
  Speaker 1: was suffering and the walk he had had for nothing.
• 4:03:21
  Speaker 1: When I got to Donwell said he nightly could not
• 4:03:24
  Speaker 1: be found, very odd, very unaccountable. After the note I
• 4:03:30
  Speaker 1: sent him this morning and the message he returned that
• 4:03:32
  Speaker 1: he should certainly be at home till one. Donwell cried
• 4:03:36
  Speaker 1: his wife. My dear mister e you have not been
• 4:03:39
  Speaker 1: to Donwell. You mean the Crown You come from the
• 4:03:42
  Speaker 1: meeting at the Crown? No, No, that's to morrow. And
• 4:03:46
  Speaker 1: I particularly wanted to see knightly to day on that
• 4:03:49
  Speaker 1: very account. Such a dreadful, broiling morning. I went over
• 4:03:52
  Speaker 1: the fields too, speaking in a tone of great ill usage,
• 4:03:55
  Speaker 1: which made it so much the worse, And then not
• 4:03:58
  Speaker 1: to find him at home. I assure you I am
• 4:04:01
  Speaker 1: not at all pleased, and no apology, left no message
• 4:04:05
  Speaker 1: for me. The housekeeper declared she knew nothing of my
• 4:04:09
  Speaker 1: being expected dot very extraordinary, and nobody knew at all
• 4:04:13
  Speaker 1: which way he was gone, perhaps to Hartfield, perhaps to
• 4:04:17
  Speaker 1: the abbey mill, perhaps into his woods dot miss Woodhouse,
• 4:04:20
  Speaker 1: this is not like our friend Knightley. Can you explain it?
• 4:04:24
  Speaker 1: Emma amused herself by protesting that it was very extraordinary indeed,
• 4:04:28
  Speaker 1: and that she had not a syllable to say for him.
• 4:04:31
  Speaker 1: I cannot imagine, said missus Elton, feeling the indignity as
• 4:04:35
  Speaker 1: a wife ought to do. I cannot imagine how he
• 4:04:37
  Speaker 1: could do such a thing by you, of all people
• 4:04:40
  Speaker 1: in the world, the very last person whom one should
• 4:04:43
  Speaker 1: expect to be forgotten, My dear mister e. He must
• 4:04:46
  Speaker 1: have left a message for you. I am sure he
• 4:04:48
  Speaker 1: must have. Not. Even Knightley could be so very eccentric
• 4:04:51
  Speaker 1: and his servants forgot it. Depend upon it that was
• 4:04:55
  Speaker 1: the case, and very likely to happen with the Donwell servants,
• 4:04:58
  Speaker 1: who are all I have offer un observed extremely awkward,
• 4:05:01
  Speaker 1: and remissa, I am sure I would not have such
• 4:05:04
  Speaker 1: a creature as his harry stand at our side board
• 4:05:06
  Speaker 1: for any consideration. And as for missus Hodge's wright holds
• 4:05:10
  Speaker 1: her very cheap. Indeed, Dot, she promised write a receipt
• 4:05:15
  Speaker 1: and never send it. I met William Larkins, continued mister
• 4:05:19
  Speaker 1: Elton as I got near the house, and he told
• 4:05:21
  Speaker 1: me I should not find his master at home. But
• 4:05:24
  Speaker 1: I did not believe him. Dot. William seemed rather out
• 4:05:26
  Speaker 1: of humor. He did not know what was come to
• 4:05:29
  Speaker 1: his master lately, he said, but he could hardly ever
• 4:05:32
  Speaker 1: get the speech of him. I have nothing to do
• 4:05:35
  Speaker 1: with William's wants, but it really is of very great
• 4:05:37
  Speaker 1: importance that I should see Knightly to day. And it
• 4:05:40
  Speaker 1: becomes a matter, therefore a very serious inconvenience that I
• 4:05:43
  Speaker 1: should have had this hot walk to no purpose. Emma
• 4:05:47
  Speaker 1: felt that she could not do better than go home directly.
• 4:05:50
  Speaker 1: In all probability, she was at this very time waited
• 4:05:53
  Speaker 1: for there, and mister Knightley might be preserved from sinking
• 4:05:56
  Speaker 1: deeper an aggression towards mister Elton, if not towards William
• 4:05:59
  Speaker 1: Larkins she was pleased on taking leave to find Miss
• 4:06:03
  Speaker 1: Fairfax determined to attend her out of the room to
• 4:06:06
  Speaker 1: go with her, even downstairs. It gave her an opportunity
• 4:06:09
  Speaker 1: which she immediately made use of to say. It is
• 4:06:12
  Speaker 1: as well, perhaps that I have not had the possibility,
• 4:06:16
  Speaker 1: had you not been surrounded by other friends, I might
• 4:06:18
  Speaker 1: have been tempted to introduce a subject, to ask questions,
• 4:06:22
  Speaker 1: to speak more openly than might have been strictly corrected.
• 4:06:24
  Speaker 1: I feel that I should certainly have been impertinent. Oh,
• 4:06:29
  Speaker 1: cried Jane, with a blush and an hesitation, which Emma
• 4:06:32
  Speaker 1: thought infinitely more becoming to her than all the elegance
• 4:06:34
  Speaker 1: of all her usual composure. There would have been no danger.
• 4:06:38
  Speaker 1: The danger would have been of my wearying you. You
• 4:06:41
  Speaker 1: could not have gratified me more than by expressing an interest. Indeed,
• 4:06:46
  Speaker 1: Miss Woodhouse, speaking more collectedly with the consciousness which I
• 4:06:50
  Speaker 1: have of misconduct, very great misconduct, it is particularly consoling
• 4:06:54
  Speaker 1: to me to know that those of my friends whose
• 4:06:56
  Speaker 1: good opinion is most worth preserving are not disgusted to
• 4:06:59
  Speaker 1: such a degree to I have not time for half
• 4:07:02
  Speaker 1: that I could wish to say. I long to make
• 4:07:04
  Speaker 1: apologies excuses to urge something for myself. I feel it
• 4:07:09
  Speaker 1: so very due, But unfortunately, in short, if your compassion
• 4:07:14
  Speaker 1: does not stand my friend, Oh you are too scrupulous.
• 4:07:19
  Speaker 1: Indeed you are, cried Emma warmly, and taking her hand.
• 4:07:23
  Speaker 1: You owe me no apologies, and every body to whom
• 4:07:26
  Speaker 1: you might be supposed to owe them is so perfectly satisfied,
• 4:07:30
  Speaker 1: so delighted. Even you are very kind. But I know
• 4:07:33
  Speaker 1: what my manners were to you, dot so cold and artificial.
• 4:07:36
  Speaker 1: I had always a part to act it. It was
• 4:07:38
  Speaker 1: a life of deceit. I know that I must have
• 4:07:40
  Speaker 1: disgusted you. Pray, say no more. I feel that all
• 4:07:45
  Speaker 1: the apologies should be on my side. Let us forgive
• 4:07:48
  Speaker 1: each other at once. We must do whatever is to
• 4:07:51
  Speaker 1: be done quickest, and I think our feelings will lose
• 4:07:54
  Speaker 1: no time there. I hope you have pleasant accounts from
• 4:07:57
  Speaker 1: windsor very in the next news I suppose will be
• 4:08:02
  Speaker 1: that we are to lose you, just as I begin
• 4:08:05
  Speaker 1: to know you. Oh as to all that, of course,
• 4:08:09
  Speaker 1: nothing can be thought of. Yet I am here till
• 4:08:12
  Speaker 1: claimed by Colonel and Missus Campbell. Nothing can be actually
• 4:08:16
  Speaker 1: settled yet, perhaps, replied Emma, smiling, But excuse me, it
• 4:08:21
  Speaker 1: must be thought of. The smile was returned as Jane answered,
• 4:08:25
  Speaker 1: you are very right, it has been thought of, and
• 4:08:29
  Speaker 1: I will own to you. I am sure it will
• 4:08:31
  Speaker 1: be safe that so far as our living with mister
• 4:08:33
  Speaker 1: Churchill at Enscombe, it is settled. There must be three
• 4:08:37
  Speaker 1: months at least of deep mourning, but when they are over,
• 4:08:41
  Speaker 1: I imagine there will be nothing more to wait for.
• 4:08:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, dot. This is just what I
• 4:08:46
  Speaker 1: wanted to be assured of. Dot. Oh, if you knew
• 4:08:50
  Speaker 1: how much I love everything that is decided and open, goodbye, goodbye.
• 4:08:55
  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen. Missus Weston's friends were all made happy by
• 4:08:58
  Speaker 1: her safety, and if the sat iss faction of her
• 4:09:00
  Speaker 1: well doing could be increased to Emma, it was by
• 4:09:03
  Speaker 1: knowing her to be the mother of a little girl.
• 4:09:05
  Speaker 1: She had been decided in wishing for a miss Weston.
• 4:09:09
  Speaker 1: She would not acknowledge that it was with any view
• 4:09:11
  Speaker 1: of making a match for her hereafter with either of
• 4:09:13
  Speaker 1: Isabella's sons, but she was convinced that a daughter would
• 4:09:16
  Speaker 1: suit both father and mother best. It would be a
• 4:09:20
  Speaker 1: great comfort to mister Weston as he grew older, and
• 4:09:23
  Speaker 1: even mister Weston might be growing older ten years, hence
• 4:09:26
  Speaker 1: to have his fireside enlivened by the sports and the nonsense,
• 4:09:29
  Speaker 1: the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished
• 4:09:32
  Speaker 1: from home, and missus Weston, no one could doubt that
• 4:09:34
  Speaker 1: a daughter would be most to her. And it would
• 4:09:37
  Speaker 1: be quite a pity that any one who so well
• 4:09:39
  Speaker 1: knew how to teach should not have their powers in exercise. Again,
• 4:09:44
  Speaker 1: she has had the advantage, you know, of practicing on me,
• 4:09:47
  Speaker 1: she continued, like la Baronne di almain On, la contesse
• 4:09:50
  Speaker 1: diostoles in Madame Dejenalus, Adelaide and Theodore. And we shall
• 4:09:54
  Speaker 1: now see her own little Adelaide educated on a more
• 4:09:57
  Speaker 1: perfect plan. That is reply, mister Knightley. She will indulge
• 4:10:01
  Speaker 1: her even more than she did you. And believe that
• 4:10:04
  Speaker 1: she does not indulge her at all. It will be
• 4:10:06
  Speaker 1: the only difference, poor child, cried Emma. At that rate,
• 4:10:11
  Speaker 1: what will become of her? Nothing very bad dot the
• 4:10:15
  Speaker 1: fate of thousands. She will be disagreeable in infancy and
• 4:10:19
  Speaker 1: correct herself as she grows older. I am losing all
• 4:10:23
  Speaker 1: my bitterness against spoiled children. My dearest Emma, I who
• 4:10:27
  Speaker 1: am owing all my happiness to you, would not it
• 4:10:30
  Speaker 1: be horrible and gratitude in me to be severe on them.
• 4:10:33
  Speaker 1: Emma laughed and replied, But I had the assistance of
• 4:10:36
  Speaker 1: all your endeavors to counteract the indulgence of other people.
• 4:10:40
  Speaker 1: I doubt whether my own sense would have corrected me
• 4:10:42
  Speaker 1: without it. Do you? I have no doubt. Nature gave
• 4:10:47
  Speaker 1: you understanding, Miss Taylor, gave you principles you must have
• 4:10:51
  Speaker 1: done well. My interference was quite as likely to do
• 4:10:54
  Speaker 1: harm as good. It was very natural for you to say,
• 4:10:58
  Speaker 1: what right has he to lecture me? And I am
• 4:11:00
  Speaker 1: afraid very natural for you to feel that it was
• 4:11:02
  Speaker 1: done in a disagreeable manner. I do not believe I
• 4:11:05
  Speaker 1: did you any good. The good was all to myself.
• 4:11:09
  Speaker 1: By making you an object of the tenderest affection to me,
• 4:11:13
  Speaker 1: I could not think about you so much without doting
• 4:11:15
  Speaker 1: on you false and all, and by dinner of fancying
• 4:11:18
  Speaker 1: so many errors. Have been in love with you ever
• 4:11:20
  Speaker 1: since you were thirteen. At least, I am sure you
• 4:11:23
  Speaker 1: were of use to me, cried Emma. I was very
• 4:11:26
  Speaker 1: often influenced rightly by you, oftener than I would own
• 4:11:29
  Speaker 1: at the time. I am very sure you did me good.
• 4:11:33
  Speaker 1: And if poor little Anna Weston is to be spoiled.
• 4:11:36
  Speaker 1: It will be the greatest humanity in you to do
• 4:11:38
  Speaker 1: as much for her as you have done for me,
• 4:11:40
  Speaker 1: except falling in love with her when she is thirteen.
• 4:11:43
  Speaker 1: How often when you were a girl have you said
• 4:11:46
  Speaker 1: to me with one of your saucy looks, mister Knightley,
• 4:11:49
  Speaker 1: I am going to do so, and so Papa says,
• 4:11:52
  Speaker 1: I may or I have Miss Taylor's leave, something which
• 4:11:55
  Speaker 1: you knew I did not approve. In such cases, my
• 4:11:59
  Speaker 1: interference was giving you two bad feelings instead of one.
• 4:12:02
  Speaker 1: What an amiable creature I was. No wonder you should
• 4:12:06
  Speaker 1: hold my speeches in such affectionate remembrance. Mister Knightley, you
• 4:12:12
  Speaker 1: always called me mister Knightley, and from habit it has
• 4:12:16
  Speaker 1: not so very formal a sound, and yet it is formal.
• 4:12:19
  Speaker 1: I want you to call me something else, but I
• 4:12:22
  Speaker 1: do not know what. I remember once calling you George
• 4:12:26
  Speaker 1: in one of my amiable fits about ten years ago.
• 4:12:29
  Speaker 1: I did it because I thought it would offend you,
• 4:12:31
  Speaker 1: But as you made no objection, I never did it again.
• 4:12:35
  Speaker 1: And cannot you call me George now? Impossible? I never
• 4:12:39
  Speaker 1: can call you anything but mister Knightley. I will not
• 4:12:43
  Speaker 1: promise even to equal the elegant terseness of missus Elton
• 4:12:46
  Speaker 1: by calling you mister Kate. But I will promise, she added,
• 4:12:50
  Speaker 1: presently laughing and blushing, I will promise to call you
• 4:12:53
  Speaker 1: once by your Christian name. I do not say when,
• 4:12:56
  Speaker 1: but perhaps you may guess where in the building in
• 4:12:59
  Speaker 1: which n takes m for better for worse. Emma grieved
• 4:13:03
  Speaker 1: that she could not be more openly just to one
• 4:13:05
  Speaker 1: important service which his better sense would have rendered her
• 4:13:08
  Speaker 1: to the advice which would have saved her from the
• 4:13:10
  Speaker 1: worst of all her womanly follies, her wilful intimacy with
• 4:13:13
  Speaker 1: Harriet Smith. But it was too tender a subject she
• 4:13:16
  Speaker 1: could not enter on it. Dot Harriet was very seldom
• 4:13:20
  Speaker 1: mentioned between them. This on his side might merely proceed
• 4:13:24
  Speaker 1: from her not being thought of, but Emma was rather
• 4:13:27
  Speaker 1: inclined to attribute it to delicacy and a suspicion from
• 4:13:30
  Speaker 1: some appearances that their friendship were declining. She was aware
• 4:13:34
  Speaker 1: herself that parting under any other circumstances, they certainly should
• 4:13:39
  Speaker 1: have corresponded more, and that her intelligence would not have
• 4:13:41
  Speaker 1: rested as it now almost wholly did on Isabella's letters.
• 4:13:46
  Speaker 1: He might observe that it was so, the pain of
• 4:13:49
  Speaker 1: being obliged to practice concealment towards him was very little
• 4:13:52
  Speaker 1: inferior to the pain of having made Harriet unhappy. Isabella
• 4:13:57
  Speaker 1: sent quite as good an account of her visitor as
• 4:13:59
  Speaker 1: could be expected. On her first arrival, she had thought
• 4:14:01
  Speaker 1: her out of spirits, which appeared perfectly natural, as there
• 4:14:04
  Speaker 1: was a dentist to be consulted. But since that business
• 4:14:07
  Speaker 1: had been over, she did not appear to find Harriet
• 4:14:10
  Speaker 1: different from what she had known her before. Dot Isabella,
• 4:14:13
  Speaker 1: to be sure, was no very quick observer. Yet if
• 4:14:16
  Speaker 1: Harriet had not been equal to playing with the children,
• 4:14:19
  Speaker 1: it would not have escaped her. Emma's comforts and hopes
• 4:14:22
  Speaker 1: were most agreeably carried on by Harriet's being to stay longer.
• 4:14:26
  Speaker 1: Her fortnight was likely to be a month at least.
• 4:14:29
  Speaker 1: Mister and missus John Knightley were to come down in August,
• 4:14:32
  Speaker 1: and she was invited to remain till they could bring
• 4:14:34
  Speaker 1: her back. John does not even mention your friend, said
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 1: mister Knightley. Here is his answer, if you like to
• 4:14:41
  Speaker 1: see it. It was the answer to the communication of
• 4:14:44
  Speaker 1: his intended marriage. Emma accepted it with a very eager hand,
• 4:14:49
  Speaker 1: with an impatience, all alive to know what he would
• 4:14:51
  Speaker 1: say about it, and not at all checked by hearing
• 4:14:53
  Speaker 1: that her friend was unmentioned. John enters like a brother
• 4:14:57
  Speaker 1: into my happiness, continued mister Knightley. But he is no complimenter,
• 4:15:01
  Speaker 1: and though I well know him to have likewise a
• 4:15:04
  Speaker 1: most brotherly affection for you, he is so far from
• 4:15:07
  Speaker 1: making flourishes that any other young woman might think him
• 4:15:10
  Speaker 1: rather cool in her praise. But I am not afraid
• 4:15:13
  Speaker 1: of your seeing what he writes. He writes like a
• 4:15:16
  Speaker 1: sensible man, replied Emma, when she had read the letter.
• 4:15:20
  Speaker 1: I honor his sincerity. It is very plain that he
• 4:15:23
  Speaker 1: considers the good fortune of the engagement as all on
• 4:15:26
  Speaker 1: my side, but that he is not without hope of
• 4:15:28
  Speaker 1: my growing in time as worthy of your affection as
• 4:15:31
  Speaker 1: you think me already. Had he said anything to bear
• 4:15:35
  Speaker 1: a different construction, should not have believed him, My Emma,
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 1: He means no such thing. He only means he and
• 4:15:43
  Speaker 1: I should differ very little in our estimation of the two,
• 4:15:45
  Speaker 1: interrupted she with a sort of serious smile, much less
• 4:15:49
  Speaker 1: perhaps than he is aware of. If we could enter
• 4:15:52
  Speaker 1: without ceremony or reserve on the subject, Emma, my dear Emma, Oh,
• 4:15:58
  Speaker 1: she cried, with more thorough gain. If you fancy your
• 4:16:01
  Speaker 1: brother does not do me justice, only wait till my
• 4:16:03
  Speaker 1: dear father is in the secret and hear his opinion
• 4:16:07
  Speaker 1: depend upon it. He will be much farther from doing
• 4:16:09
  Speaker 1: you justice. He will think all the happiness, all the
• 4:16:13
  Speaker 1: advantage on your side of the question, all the merit
• 4:16:16
  Speaker 1: on mine. I wish I may not sink into poor
• 4:16:19
  Speaker 1: Emma with him at wansta. His tender compassion towards oppressed
• 4:16:22
  Speaker 1: worth can go no farther. Ah, he cried. I wish
• 4:16:26
  Speaker 1: your father might be half as easily convinced as John
• 4:16:29
  Speaker 1: will be of our having every right that equal worth
• 4:16:32
  Speaker 1: can give to be happy together. I am amused by
• 4:16:35
  Speaker 1: one part of John's letter. Did you notice it where
• 4:16:38
  Speaker 1: he says that my information did not take him wholly
• 4:16:41
  Speaker 1: by surprise, that he was rather an expectation of hearing
• 4:16:44
  Speaker 1: something of the kind. If I understand your brother, he
• 4:16:47
  Speaker 1: only means so far as your having some thoughts of marrying.
• 4:16:51
  Speaker 1: He had no idea of me. He seems perfectly unprepared
• 4:16:55
  Speaker 1: for that. Yes, yes, But I am amused that he
• 4:16:59
  Speaker 1: should have seen so far into my feelings. What has
• 4:17:02
  Speaker 1: he been judging by? I am not conscious of any
• 4:17:05
  Speaker 1: difference in my spirits or conversation that could prepare him
• 4:17:07
  Speaker 1: at this time for my marrying any more than at
• 4:17:09
  Speaker 1: another dot. But it was so, I suppose, I dare
• 4:17:13
  Speaker 1: say there was a difference. When I was staying with
• 4:17:15
  Speaker 1: them the other day. I believe I did not play
• 4:17:18
  Speaker 1: with the children quite so much as usual. I remember
• 4:17:21
  Speaker 1: one evening the poor boy's saying, Uncle seems always tired.
• 4:17:25
  Speaker 1: Now the time was coming when the news must spread
• 4:17:28
  Speaker 1: farther and other person's reception of a tride. As soon
• 4:17:32
  Speaker 1: as Missus Weston was sufficiently recovered to admit mister Woodhouse's visits, Emma,
• 4:17:36
  Speaker 1: having it in view that her gentle reasoning should be
• 4:17:38
  Speaker 1: employed in the cause, resolved first to announce it at home,
• 4:17:42
  Speaker 1: and then at Randall's dot. But how to break it
• 4:17:44
  Speaker 1: to her father at last? She had bound herself to
• 4:17:48
  Speaker 1: do it in such an hour of mister Knightley's absence,
• 4:17:51
  Speaker 1: or when it came to the point her heart would
• 4:17:52
  Speaker 1: have failed her and she must have put it off.
• 4:17:55
  Speaker 1: But mister Knightley was to come at such a time
• 4:17:57
  Speaker 1: and follow up the beginning. She was to make to
• 4:17:59
  Speaker 1: it she was to speak, and to speak cheerfully too.
• 4:18:03
  Speaker 1: She must not make it a more decided subject of
• 4:18:05
  Speaker 1: misery to him by a melancholy tone herself. She must
• 4:18:09
  Speaker 1: not appear to think it a misfortune. With all the
• 4:18:13
  Speaker 1: spirits she could command, She prepared him first for something strange,
• 4:18:17
  Speaker 1: and then, in a few words, said that if his
• 4:18:19
  Speaker 1: consent and approbation could be obtained, which she trusted would
• 4:18:23
  Speaker 1: be attended with no difficulty, since it was a plan
• 4:18:26
  Speaker 1: to promote the happiness of all, She and mister Knightley
• 4:18:29
  Speaker 1: meant to marry, by which means Hartfield would receive the
• 4:18:32
  Speaker 1: constant addition of that person's company, whom she knew he loved,
• 4:18:35
  Speaker 1: next to his daughters and Missus Weston best in the world,
• 4:18:39
  Speaker 1: poor man. It was at first a considerable shock to him,
• 4:18:42
  Speaker 1: and he tried earnestly to dissuade her from it. She
• 4:18:46
  Speaker 1: was reminded more than once of having always said she
• 4:18:49
  Speaker 1: would never marry, and assured that it would be a
• 4:18:51
  Speaker 1: great deal better for her to remain single, and told
• 4:18:54
  Speaker 1: of poor Isabella and poor miss Taylord. But it would
• 4:18:57
  Speaker 1: not do. Emma hung about him affectionately and smiled and
• 4:19:01
  Speaker 1: said it must be so, and that he must not
• 4:19:03
  Speaker 1: class her with Isabella and Missus Weston, whose marriages taking
• 4:19:07
  Speaker 1: them from Hartfield had indeed made a melancholy change. But
• 4:19:11
  Speaker 1: she was not going from Hartfield. She should be always there.
• 4:19:15
  Speaker 1: She was introducing no change in their numbers or their comforts,
• 4:19:18
  Speaker 1: but for the better. And she was very sure that
• 4:19:20
  Speaker 1: he would be a great deal the happier for having
• 4:19:22
  Speaker 1: mister Knightley always at hand when he were once got
• 4:19:24
  Speaker 1: used to the idea. Did he not love mister Knightley
• 4:19:27
  Speaker 1: very much? He would not deny that he did. She
• 4:19:30
  Speaker 1: was sure, Dot. Whom did he ever want to consult
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 1: on business? But mister Knightley, who was so useful to him,
• 4:19:36
  Speaker 1: who so ready to write his letters, who so glad
• 4:19:39
  Speaker 1: to assist him, who so cheerful, so attentive, so attached
• 4:19:43
  Speaker 1: to him. Would not he like to have him always
• 4:19:45
  Speaker 1: on the spot? Yes, that was all very true. Mister
• 4:19:50
  Speaker 1: Knightley could not be there too often. He should be
• 4:19:52
  Speaker 1: glad to see him every day. But they did see
• 4:19:54
  Speaker 1: him every day, as it was. Dot. Why could not
• 4:19:57
  Speaker 1: they go on as they had done? Mister Woodhouse could
• 4:20:00
  Speaker 1: not be soon reconciled. But the worst was overcome. The
• 4:20:03
  Speaker 1: idea was given time and continual repetition must do the rest.
• 4:20:07
  Speaker 1: To Emma's entreaties and assurances succeeded mister Knightley's, whose fond
• 4:20:11
  Speaker 1: praise of her gave the subject even a kind of welcome,
• 4:20:14
  Speaker 1: and he was soon used to be talked to by
• 4:20:16
  Speaker 1: each on every fair occasioned they had all the assistance
• 4:20:20
  Speaker 1: which Isabella could give by letters of the strongest approbation,
• 4:20:24
  Speaker 1: and Missus Weston was ready on the first meeting to
• 4:20:27
  Speaker 1: consider the subject in the most serviceable light, first as
• 4:20:30
  Speaker 1: as settled and secondly as a good one. Well aware
• 4:20:34
  Speaker 1: of the nearly equal importance of the two recommendations, to
• 4:20:36
  Speaker 1: mister Woodhouse's mind, it was agreed upon as what was
• 4:20:41
  Speaker 1: to be, and every body by whom he was used
• 4:20:43
  Speaker 1: to be guided assuring him that it would be for
• 4:20:45
  Speaker 1: his happiness, and having some feelings himself which almost admitted it,
• 4:20:49
  Speaker 1: he began to think that some time or other, in
• 4:20:51
  Speaker 1: another year or two, perhaps it might not be so
• 4:20:54
  Speaker 1: very bad if the marriage did take place. Missus Weston
• 4:20:58
  Speaker 1: was acting no part, feigning no feelings in all that
• 4:21:01
  Speaker 1: she said to him in favor of the event. She
• 4:21:03
  Speaker 1: had been extremely surprised, never more so than when Emma
• 4:21:07
  Speaker 1: first opened the affair to her. But she saw in
• 4:21:09
  Speaker 1: it only increase of happiness to all, and had no
• 4:21:12
  Speaker 1: scruple in urging him to the utmost. She had such
• 4:21:16
  Speaker 1: a regard for mister Knightley as to think he deserved
• 4:21:18
  Speaker 1: even her dearest Emma. And it was in every respect
• 4:21:21
  Speaker 1: so proper suitable and unexceptionable a connection, and in one
• 4:21:25
  Speaker 1: respect one point of the highest importance, so peculiarly eligible,
• 4:21:29
  Speaker 1: so singularly fortunate, that now it seemed as if Emma
• 4:21:33
  Speaker 1: could not safely have attached herself to any other creature,
• 4:21:36
  Speaker 1: and that she had herself been the stupidest of beings
• 4:21:38
  Speaker 1: in not having thought of it and wished it long ago.
• 4:21:41
  Speaker 1: How very few of those men in a rank of
• 4:21:43
  Speaker 1: life to address Emma would have renounced their own home
• 4:21:45
  Speaker 1: for Hartfield, And who but mister Knightley could know and
• 4:21:49
  Speaker 1: bear with mister Woodhouse so as to make such an
• 4:21:51
  Speaker 1: arrangement desirable. The difficulty of disposing of poor mister Woodhouse
• 4:21:55
  Speaker 1: had been always felt in her husband's plans and her
• 4:21:57
  Speaker 1: own for a marriage between Frank and Emma. How to
• 4:22:01
  Speaker 1: settle the claims of Enscombe and Hartfield had been a
• 4:22:03
  Speaker 1: continual impediment, less acknowledged by mister Weston than by herself.
• 4:22:07
  Speaker 1: But even he had never been able to finish the
• 4:22:09
  Speaker 1: subject better than by saying, those matters will take care
• 4:22:12
  Speaker 1: of themselves, the young people will find a way. But
• 4:22:16
  Speaker 1: here there was nothing to be shifted off in a
• 4:22:17
  Speaker 1: wild speculation on the future. It was all right, all open,
• 4:22:22
  Speaker 1: all equal, no sacrifice on any side worth the name.
• 4:22:27
  Speaker 1: It was a union of the highest promise of felicity
• 4:22:29
  Speaker 1: in itself, and without one real rational difficulty to oppose
• 4:22:33
  Speaker 1: or delay it. Missus Weston, with her baby on her knee,
• 4:22:37
  Speaker 1: indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the
• 4:22:40
  Speaker 1: happiest women in the world. If any thing could increase
• 4:22:44
  Speaker 1: her delight, it was perceiving that the baby would soon
• 4:22:46
  Speaker 1: have outgrown its first set of caps. The news was
• 4:22:50
  Speaker 1: universally a surprise wherever it spread, and mister Weston had
• 4:22:53
  Speaker 1: his five minutes share of it. But five minutes were
• 4:22:56
  Speaker 1: enough to familiarize the idea to his quickness of mind.
• 4:22:59
  Speaker 1: He saw the advantages of the match and rejoiced in
• 4:23:03
  Speaker 1: them with all the constancy of his wife. But the
• 4:23:05
  Speaker 1: wonder of it was very soon nothing, and by the
• 4:23:07
  Speaker 1: end of an hour he was not far from believing
• 4:23:09
  Speaker 1: that he had always foreseen it. It is to be
• 4:23:12
  Speaker 1: a secret, I conclude, said he. These matters are always
• 4:23:16
  Speaker 1: a secret till it is found out that every body
• 4:23:19
  Speaker 1: knows them. Only let me be told when I may
• 4:23:22
  Speaker 1: speak out. I wonder whether Jane has any suspicion. He
• 4:23:26
  Speaker 1: went to Highbury the next morning and satisfied himself on
• 4:23:29
  Speaker 1: that point. He told her the news. Was not she
• 4:23:33
  Speaker 1: like a daughter, his eldest daughter, he must tell her,
• 4:23:37
  Speaker 1: and Miss Bates being present, It passed, of course to
• 4:23:40
  Speaker 1: missus Cole, Missus Perry, and missus Elton immediately afterwards. It
• 4:23:46
  Speaker 1: was no more than the principles were prepared for. They
• 4:23:49
  Speaker 1: had calculated from the time of its being known at
• 4:23:51
  Speaker 1: Randall's how soon it would be over Highbury, and were
• 4:23:54
  Speaker 1: thinking of themselves as the evening wonder in many a
• 4:23:57
  Speaker 1: family circle with great sagacity. In general, it was a
• 4:24:01
  Speaker 1: very well approved match. Some might think him, and others
• 4:24:05
  Speaker 1: might think her the most in luck. One set might
• 4:24:08
  Speaker 1: recommend their all removing to Donwell and leaving Hartfield for
• 4:24:11
  Speaker 1: the John Knightleys, and another might predict disagreements among their servants.
• 4:24:16
  Speaker 1: But yet upon the whole there was no serious objection raised,
• 4:24:19
  Speaker 1: except in one habitation, the vicarage. Dot. There the surprise
• 4:24:24
  Speaker 1: was not softened by any satisfaction. Mister Elton cared little
• 4:24:28
  Speaker 1: about it. Compared with his wife. He only hoped the
• 4:24:31
  Speaker 1: young lady's pride would now be contented and supposed she
• 4:24:35
  Speaker 1: had always meant to catch Knightly if she could, and
• 4:24:38
  Speaker 1: on the point of living at Hartfield, could daringly exclaim
• 4:24:41
  Speaker 1: rather he than I. But missus Elton was very much discomposed. Indeed, Dot,
• 4:24:47
  Speaker 1: poor Knightly, poor fellow sad business for him. She was
• 4:24:52
  Speaker 1: extremely concerned, for though very eccentric, he had a thousand
• 4:24:56
  Speaker 1: good qualities Dot, how could he be so taken in?
• 4:25:00
  Speaker 1: He did not think him at all in love, not
• 4:25:02
  Speaker 1: in the least Poor Knightly. There would be an end
• 4:25:04
  Speaker 1: of all pleasant intercourse with him. Dot. How happy he
• 4:25:08
  Speaker 1: had been to come and dine with them whenever they
• 4:25:10
  Speaker 1: asked him. But that would be all over now, poor Fellow,
• 4:25:14
  Speaker 1: no more exploring parties to donwell made for her. Oh no,
• 4:25:20
  Speaker 1: there would be a Missus Knightley to throw cold water
• 4:25:22
  Speaker 1: on everything. Extremely disagreeable, But she was not at all
• 4:25:27
  Speaker 1: sorry that she had abused the housekeeper the other day.
• 4:25:30
  Speaker 1: Shocking plan living together. It would never do. She knew
• 4:25:35
  Speaker 1: a family near Maple Grove who had tried it and
• 4:25:37
  Speaker 1: been obliged to separate before the end of the first
• 4:25:39
  Speaker 1: quarter Chapter eighteen. Time passed on a few more tomorrows
• 4:25:45
  Speaker 1: and the party from London would be arriving. It was
• 4:25:48
  Speaker 1: an alarming change, and Emma was thinking of it one
• 4:25:51
  Speaker 1: morning as what must bring a great deal to agitate
• 4:25:54
  Speaker 1: and grieve her when mister Knightley came in and distressing
• 4:25:57
  Speaker 1: thoughts were put by. After the first chat of pleasure,
• 4:26:00
  Speaker 1: he was silent, and then, in a graver tone, began
• 4:26:04
  Speaker 1: with I have something to tell you, Emma, some news
• 4:26:08
  Speaker 1: good or bad, said she, quickly, looking up in his face.
• 4:26:13
  Speaker 1: I do not know which it ought to be called.
• 4:26:16
  Speaker 1: Oh good, I am sure, dot I see it in
• 4:26:19
  Speaker 1: your countenance. You are trying not to smile. I am afraid,
• 4:26:24
  Speaker 1: said he, composing his features. I am very much afraid,
• 4:26:28
  Speaker 1: my dear Emma, that you will not smile when you
• 4:26:30
  Speaker 1: hear it. Indeed, but why so? I can hardly imagine
• 4:26:37
  Speaker 1: that anything which pleases or amuses you should not please
• 4:26:40
  Speaker 1: and amuse me too. There is one subject, he replied,
• 4:26:44
  Speaker 1: I hope, but one on which we do not think alike.
• 4:26:48
  Speaker 1: He paused a moment, again, smiling with his eyes fixed
• 4:26:51
  Speaker 1: on her face. Does nothing occur to you? Do not?
• 4:26:55
  Speaker 1: You recollect Harriet Smith. Her cheeks flushed at the name,
• 4:26:59
  Speaker 1: and she felt afraid of something, though she knew not.
• 4:27:02
  Speaker 1: What have you heard from her yourself this morning? Cried
• 4:27:05
  Speaker 1: he you have I believe and know the whole. No
• 4:27:10
  Speaker 1: I have not. I know nothing. Pray tell me you
• 4:27:14
  Speaker 1: are prepared for the worst I see, and very bad
• 4:27:17
  Speaker 1: it is. Harriet Smith marries Robert Martin. Emma gave a
• 4:27:22
  Speaker 1: start which did not seem like being prepared, and her
• 4:27:25
  Speaker 1: eyes in eager gaze, said no, this is impossible, But
• 4:27:29
  Speaker 1: her lips were closed. It is so, indeed, continued mister Knightley,
• 4:27:35
  Speaker 1: I have it from Robert Martin himself. He left me
• 4:27:38
  Speaker 1: not half an hour ago. She was still looking at
• 4:27:41
  Speaker 1: him with the most speaking amazement. You like it, my Emma,
• 4:27:45
  Speaker 1: as little as I feared dot. I wish our opinions
• 4:27:48
  Speaker 1: were the same, But in time they will. Time, you
• 4:27:52
  Speaker 1: may be sure, will make one or the other of
• 4:27:54
  Speaker 1: us think differently, and in the Meanwhile, we need not
• 4:27:58
  Speaker 1: talk much on the subject. You mistake me, You quite
• 4:28:02
  Speaker 1: mistake me, she replied, exerting herself. It is not that
• 4:28:06
  Speaker 1: such a circumstance would now make me unhappy, But I
• 4:28:09
  Speaker 1: cannot believe it. It seems an impossibility. You cannot mean
• 4:28:13
  Speaker 1: to say that Harriet Smith has accepted Robert Martin. You
• 4:28:18
  Speaker 1: cannot mean that he has even proposed to her again.
• 4:28:20
  Speaker 1: Yet you only mean that he intends it. I mean
• 4:28:25
  Speaker 1: that he has done it, answered mister Knightley, with smiling
• 4:28:28
  Speaker 1: but determined decision and been accepted. Good God, she cried
• 4:28:32
  Speaker 1: dot Well, Then, having recourse to her work basket in
• 4:28:38
  Speaker 1: excuse for leaning down her face and concealing all the
• 4:28:41
  Speaker 1: exquisite feelings of delight and entertainment which she knew she
• 4:28:44
  Speaker 1: must be expressing, she added, well, now tell me every thing.
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 1: Make this intelligible to me? How where? When? Let me
• 4:28:52
  Speaker 1: know it all? I never was more surprised. But it
• 4:28:55
  Speaker 1: does not make me unhappy, I assure you, dot How
• 4:28:58
  Speaker 1: how has it been possible? It is a very simple story.
• 4:29:03
  Speaker 1: He went to town on business three days ago, and I
• 4:29:05
  Speaker 1: got him to take charge of some papers which I
• 4:29:07
  Speaker 1: was wanting to send to John. He delivered these papers
• 4:29:11
  Speaker 1: to John at his chambers and was asked by him
• 4:29:14
  Speaker 1: to join their party the same evening to Astley's. They
• 4:29:18
  Speaker 1: were going to take the two eldest boys to Astle's.
• 4:29:21
  Speaker 1: The party was to be our brother and sister, Henry,
• 4:29:24
  Speaker 1: John and Miss Smith. My friend Robert could not resist.
• 4:29:29
  Speaker 1: They called for him in their way, were all extremely amused,
• 4:29:33
  Speaker 1: and my brother asked him to dine with them the
• 4:29:34
  Speaker 1: next day, which he did. And in the course of
• 4:29:37
  Speaker 1: that visit, as I understand, he found an opportunity of
• 4:29:40
  Speaker 1: speaking to Harriet, and certainly did not speak in vain.
• 4:29:43
  Speaker 1: She made him, by her acceptance as happy even as
• 4:29:46
  Speaker 1: he is deserving. He came down by yesterday's coach and
• 4:29:50
  Speaker 1: was with me this morning, immediately after breakfast, to report
• 4:29:53
  Speaker 1: his proceedings, first on my affairs and then on his own.
• 4:29:58
  Speaker 1: This is all that I can relate of the how, where,
• 4:30:00
  Speaker 1: and when. Your friend Harriet will make a much longer history.
• 4:30:04
  Speaker 1: When you see her dot she will give you all
• 4:30:07
  Speaker 1: the minute particulars which only woman's language can make interesting.
• 4:30:11
  Speaker 1: In our communications we deal only in the great However,
• 4:30:15
  Speaker 1: I must say that Robert Martin's heart seemed for him
• 4:30:18
  Speaker 1: and to me very overflowing, and that he did mention
• 4:30:21
  Speaker 1: without its being much to the purpose. That on quitting
• 4:30:24
  Speaker 1: their box at Astley's, my brother took charge of missus
• 4:30:27
  Speaker 1: John Knightley and little John, and he followed with miss
• 4:30:29
  Speaker 1: Smith and Henry, and that at one time they were
• 4:30:32
  Speaker 1: in such a crowd as to make Miss Smith rather uneasy.
• 4:30:37
  Speaker 1: He stopped that Emma dared not attempt any immediate reply
• 4:30:41
  Speaker 1: to speak, she was sure would be to betray a
• 4:30:43
  Speaker 1: most unreasonable degree of happiness. She must wait a moment
• 4:30:48
  Speaker 1: or he would think her mad. Her silence disturbed him,
• 4:30:51
  Speaker 1: and after observing her a little while, he added, Emma,
• 4:30:54
  Speaker 1: my love, you said that this circumstance would not now
• 4:30:57
  Speaker 1: make you unhappy, but I am afraid it gives you
• 4:30:59
  Speaker 1: more more pain than you expected. His situation is an evil,
• 4:31:04
  Speaker 1: but you must consider it as what satisfies your friend,
• 4:31:06
  Speaker 1: and I will answer for your thinking better and better
• 4:31:08
  Speaker 1: of him as you know him more. His good sense
• 4:31:11
  Speaker 1: and good principles would delight you. Dot as far as
• 4:31:14
  Speaker 1: the man is concerned, you could not wish your friend
• 4:31:16
  Speaker 1: in better hands. His rank in society I would alter
• 4:31:20
  Speaker 1: if I could, which is saying a great deal. I
• 4:31:22
  Speaker 1: assure you, amm d you laugh at me about William Larkins's,
• 4:31:26
  Speaker 1: but I could quite as ill spare Robert Martin. He
• 4:31:29
  Speaker 1: wanted her to look up and smile, and having now
• 4:31:31
  Speaker 1: brought herself not to smile too broadly, she did cheerfully, answering,
• 4:31:35
  Speaker 1: you need not be at any pains to reconcile me
• 4:31:38
  Speaker 1: to the match. I think Harriet is doing extremely well.
• 4:31:42
  Speaker 1: Her connections may be worse than his in respectability of character,
• 4:31:47
  Speaker 1: there can be no doubt that they are. I have
• 4:31:50
  Speaker 1: been silent from surprise, merely excessive surprise. You cannot imagine
• 4:31:55
  Speaker 1: how suddenly it has come on me, how peculiarly unprepared
• 4:31:59
  Speaker 1: I was, for I had reason to believe her very
• 4:32:01
  Speaker 1: lately more determined against him, much more than she was before.
• 4:32:06
  Speaker 1: You ought to know your friend best, replied mister Knightley.
• 4:32:09
  Speaker 1: But I should say she was a good tempered, soft
• 4:32:11
  Speaker 1: hearted girl, not likely to be very very determined against
• 4:32:14
  Speaker 1: any young man who told her he loved her. Emma
• 4:32:17
  Speaker 1: could not help laughing as she answered upon my word.
• 4:32:20
  Speaker 1: I believe you know her quite as well as I
• 4:32:22
  Speaker 1: do dot. But mister Knightley, are you perfectly sure that
• 4:32:26
  Speaker 1: she has absolutely and downright accepted him. I could suppose
• 4:32:30
  Speaker 1: she might in time, but can she already? Did not
• 4:32:33
  Speaker 1: you misunderstand him? You were both talking of other things,
• 4:32:37
  Speaker 1: of business, shows, of cattle or new drills, And might
• 4:32:40
  Speaker 1: not you, in the confusion of so many subjects, mistake him.
• 4:32:44
  Speaker 1: It was not Harriet's hand that he was certain of.
• 4:32:48
  Speaker 1: It was the dimensions of some famous ox. The contrast
• 4:32:51
  Speaker 1: between the countenance and air of mister Knightley and Robert
• 4:32:54
  Speaker 1: Martin was at this moment so strong to Emma's feelings,
• 4:32:57
  Speaker 1: and so strong was the recollection of all that had
• 4:33:00
  Speaker 1: so recently passed on Harriet's side, so fresh the sound
• 4:33:03
  Speaker 1: of those words spoken with such emphasis. No, I hope
• 4:33:08
  Speaker 1: I know better than to think of Robert Martin that
• 4:33:10
  Speaker 1: she was really expecting the intelligence to prove in some
• 4:33:13
  Speaker 1: measure premature. It could not be otherwise. Do you dare
• 4:33:18
  Speaker 1: say this, cried mister Knightley. Do you dare to suppose
• 4:33:22
  Speaker 1: me so great a blockhead as not to know what
• 4:33:24
  Speaker 1: a man is talking of? What do you deserve? Oh?
• 4:33:30
  Speaker 1: I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put
• 4:33:33
  Speaker 1: up with any other, And therefore you must give me
• 4:33:36
  Speaker 1: a plain, direct answer. Are you quite sure that you
• 4:33:39
  Speaker 1: understand the terms on which mister Martin and Harriet now
• 4:33:42
  Speaker 1: are I am quite sure, he replied, speaking very distinctly,
• 4:33:47
  Speaker 1: that he told me she had accepted him, and that
• 4:33:49
  Speaker 1: there was no obscurity, nothing doubtful in the words he used,
• 4:33:53
  Speaker 1: and I think I can give you a proof that
• 4:33:54
  Speaker 1: it must be. So. He asked my opinion as to
• 4:33:58
  Speaker 1: what he was now to do. He knew of no
• 4:34:00
  Speaker 1: one but Missus Goddard, to whom he could apply for
• 4:34:03
  Speaker 1: information of her relations or friends. Could I mention anything
• 4:34:07
  Speaker 1: more fit to be done than to go to Missus Goddard.
• 4:34:10
  Speaker 1: I assured him that I could not. Then he said
• 4:34:14
  Speaker 1: he would endeavor to see her in the course of
• 4:34:15
  Speaker 1: this day. I am perfectly satisfied, replied Emma, with the
• 4:34:20
  Speaker 1: brightest smiles, and most sincerely wished them happy. You are
• 4:34:24
  Speaker 1: materially changed since we talked on this subject before. I
• 4:34:29
  Speaker 1: hope so, for at that time I was a fool,
• 4:34:32
  Speaker 1: and I am changed also, for I am now very
• 4:34:34
  Speaker 1: willing to grant you all Harriet's good qualities. I have
• 4:34:38
  Speaker 1: taken some pains for your sake and for Robert Martin's sake,
• 4:34:41
  Speaker 1: whom I have always had reason to believe as much
• 4:34:44
  Speaker 1: in love with her as ever to get acquainted with her.
• 4:34:47
  Speaker 1: I have often talked to her a good deal. You
• 4:34:50
  Speaker 1: must have seen that I did. Sometimes. Indeed, I have
• 4:34:54
  Speaker 1: thought you were half suspecting me of pleading poor Martin's cause,
• 4:34:57
  Speaker 1: which was never the case. But from all my observations
• 4:35:01
  Speaker 1: I am convinced of her being an artless, amiable girl,
• 4:35:04
  Speaker 1: with very good notions, very seriously good principles, and placing
• 4:35:08
  Speaker 1: her happiness in the affections and utility of domestic life.
• 4:35:11
  Speaker 1: Dot much of this, I have no doubt she may
• 4:35:15
  Speaker 1: thank you for me, cried Emma, shaking her head. Dot Ah,
• 4:35:21
  Speaker 1: poor Harriet. She checked herself, however, and submitted quietly to
• 4:35:26
  Speaker 1: a little more praise than she deserved. Their conversation was
• 4:35:30
  Speaker 1: soon afterwards closed by the entrance of her father. She
• 4:35:33
  Speaker 1: was not sorry. She wanted to be alone. Her mind
• 4:35:38
  Speaker 1: was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made
• 4:35:40
  Speaker 1: it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing,
• 4:35:45
  Speaker 1: exclaiming spirits until she had moved about and talked to
• 4:35:48
  Speaker 1: herself and laughed and reflected. She could be fit for
• 4:35:51
  Speaker 1: nothing rational. Her father's business was to announce James's being
• 4:35:56
  Speaker 1: gone out to put the horses to preparatory to their
• 4:35:58
  Speaker 1: now daily drive to random And she had therefore an
• 4:36:02
  Speaker 1: immediate excuse for disappearing. The joy, the gratitude, the exquisite
• 4:36:07
  Speaker 1: delight of her sensations may be imagined the sole grievance
• 4:36:11
  Speaker 1: and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet's welfare.
• 4:36:14
  Speaker 1: She was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.
• 4:36:17
  Speaker 1: Dot What had she to wish for? Nothing but to
• 4:36:21
  Speaker 1: grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had
• 4:36:24
  Speaker 1: been ever so superior to her own, Nothing but that
• 4:36:27
  Speaker 1: the lessons of her past folly might teach her humility
• 4:36:30
  Speaker 1: and circumspection in future. Serious she was very serious in
• 4:36:35
  Speaker 1: her thankfulness and in her resolutions, And yet there was
• 4:36:38
  Speaker 1: no preventing a laugh sometimes in the very midst of them.
• 4:36:42
  Speaker 1: She must laugh at such a close, such an end
• 4:36:46
  Speaker 1: of the doleful disappointment of five weeks back, such a
• 4:36:49
  Speaker 1: heart such a Harriet. Now there would be pleasure in
• 4:36:53
  Speaker 1: her returning. Every thing would be a pleasure. It would
• 4:36:56
  Speaker 1: be a great pleasure to know Robert Martin hi in
• 4:37:00
  Speaker 1: the rank of her most serious and heartfelt felicities, was
• 4:37:03
  Speaker 1: the reflection that all necessity of concealment from mister Knightley
• 4:37:06
  Speaker 1: would soon be over. The disguise equivocation mystery so hateful
• 4:37:11
  Speaker 1: to her to practice, might soon be over. She could
• 4:37:15
  Speaker 1: now look forward to giving him that full and perfect
• 4:37:17
  Speaker 1: confidence which her disposition was most ready to welcome as
• 4:37:20
  Speaker 1: a duty. In the gayest and happiest spirits, she set
• 4:37:23
  Speaker 1: forward with her father, not always listening, but always agreeing
• 4:37:27
  Speaker 1: to what he said, and whether in speech or silence,
• 4:37:30
  Speaker 1: conniving at the comfortable persuasion of his being obliged to
• 4:37:33
  Speaker 1: go to Randall's every day, or poor missus Weston would
• 4:37:36
  Speaker 1: be disappointed. They arrived dot Missus Weston was alone in
• 4:37:41
  Speaker 1: the drawing room, but hardly had they been told of
• 4:37:43
  Speaker 1: the baby, and mister Woodhouse received the thanks for coming
• 4:37:46
  Speaker 1: which he asked for. When a glimpse was caught through
• 4:37:49
  Speaker 1: the blind of two figures passing near the window. It
• 4:37:53
  Speaker 1: is Frank and Miss Fairfax, said missus Weston, I was
• 4:37:57
  Speaker 1: just going to tell you of our agreeable surprise in
• 4:37:59
  Speaker 1: seeing him arrived this morning. He stays till tomorrow, and
• 4:38:03
  Speaker 1: Miss Fairfax has been persuaded to spend the day with us.
• 4:38:06
  Speaker 1: Dot they are coming in. I hope in half a
• 4:38:09
  Speaker 1: minute they were in the room. Emma was extremely glad
• 4:38:13
  Speaker 1: to see him, but there was a degree of confusion,
• 4:38:15
  Speaker 1: a number of embarrassing recollections on each side. They met
• 4:38:19
  Speaker 1: readily and smiling, but with a consciousness which at first
• 4:38:22
  Speaker 1: allowed little to be said, And having all sat down again,
• 4:38:26
  Speaker 1: there was for some time such a blank in the
• 4:38:27
  Speaker 1: circle that Emma began to doubt whether the wish now indulged,
• 4:38:31
  Speaker 1: which she had long felt, of seeing Frank Churchill once more,
• 4:38:34
  Speaker 1: and of seeing him with Jane, would yield its proportion
• 4:38:37
  Speaker 1: of pleasure. When mister Weston joined the party, however, and
• 4:38:42
  Speaker 1: when the baby was fetched, there was no longer a
• 4:38:44
  Speaker 1: want of subject or animation, or of courage and opportunity
• 4:38:47
  Speaker 1: for Frank Churchill to draw near her and say, I
• 4:38:50
  Speaker 1: have to thank you, Miss Woodhouse for a very kind,
• 4:38:53
  Speaker 1: forgiving message in one of missus Weston's letters. I hope
• 4:38:56
  Speaker 1: time has not made you less willing to pardon. I
• 4:38:59
  Speaker 1: hope you do not retract what you then said. No, indeed,
• 4:39:04
  Speaker 1: cried Emma, most happy to begin. Not in the least,
• 4:39:08
  Speaker 1: I am particularly glad to see and shake hands with you,
• 4:39:11
  Speaker 1: and to give you joy in person. He thanked her
• 4:39:14
  Speaker 1: with all his heart, and continued some time to speak
• 4:39:17
  Speaker 1: with serious feeling of his gratitude and happiness. Is not
• 4:39:20
  Speaker 1: she looking well, said he, turning his eyes towards Jane,
• 4:39:25
  Speaker 1: better than she ever used to do. You see how
• 4:39:27
  Speaker 1: my father and missus Weston dowed upon her. But his
• 4:39:30
  Speaker 1: spirits were soon rising again, and with laughing eyes, after
• 4:39:34
  Speaker 1: mentioning the expected return of the campbells, he named the
• 4:39:37
  Speaker 1: name of Dixon. Emma blushed and forbade its being pronounced
• 4:39:41
  Speaker 1: in her hearing. I can never think of it, she cried,
• 4:39:44
  Speaker 1: without extreme shame. The shame, he answered, is all mine,
• 4:39:49
  Speaker 1: or ought to be. But is it possible that you
• 4:39:52
  Speaker 1: had no suspicion? I mean of late early I know
• 4:39:56
  Speaker 1: you had none. I never had the smallest I I
• 4:40:00
  Speaker 1: assure you that appears quite wonderful. I was once very near,
• 4:40:05
  Speaker 1: and I wish I had It would have been better.
• 4:40:08
  Speaker 1: But though I was always doing wrong things, they were
• 4:40:11
  Speaker 1: very bad wrong things, and such as did me no
• 4:40:13
  Speaker 1: service Dot. It would have been a much better transgression
• 4:40:17
  Speaker 1: had I broken the bond of secrecy and told you everything.
• 4:40:21
  Speaker 1: It is not now worth a regret, said Emma, I
• 4:40:24
  Speaker 1: have some hope, resumed, he of my uncle's being persuaded
• 4:40:28
  Speaker 1: to pay a visit at Randall's. He wants to be
• 4:40:30
  Speaker 1: introduced to her. When the campbells are returned, we shall
• 4:40:34
  Speaker 1: meet them in London and continue there, I trust, till
• 4:40:37
  Speaker 1: we may carry her northward. But now I am at
• 4:40:40
  Speaker 1: such a distance from her. Is not at hard miss Woodhouse.
• 4:40:43
  Speaker 1: Till this morning we have not once met since the
• 4:40:45
  Speaker 1: day of reconciliation. Do not you pity me? Emma spoke
• 4:40:50
  Speaker 1: her pity so very kindly that with a sudden accession
• 4:40:53
  Speaker 1: of gay thought, he cried, ah, by the bye, then
• 4:40:58
  Speaker 1: sinking his voice and looking de mere for the moment.
• 4:41:00
  Speaker 1: I hope mister Knightley is well, he paused at She
• 4:41:04
  Speaker 1: colored and laughed at. I know you saw my letter
• 4:41:07
  Speaker 1: and think you may remember my wish in your favor.
• 4:41:10
  Speaker 1: Let me return your congratulations. I assure you that I
• 4:41:13
  Speaker 1: have heard the news with the warmest interest and satisfaction.
• 4:41:16
  Speaker 1: He is a man whom I cannot presume to praise.
• 4:41:19
  Speaker 1: Emma was delighted and only wanted him to go on
• 4:41:22
  Speaker 1: in the same style. But his mind was the next
• 4:41:24
  Speaker 1: moment in his own concerns and with his own Jane,
• 4:41:27
  Speaker 1: and his next words were, did you ever see such
• 4:41:29
  Speaker 1: a skin, such smoothness, such delicacy, and yet without being
• 4:41:34
  Speaker 1: actually fair? Dot? One cannot call her fair. It is
• 4:41:38
  Speaker 1: a most uncommon complexion, with her dark eyelashes and hair,
• 4:41:42
  Speaker 1: a most distinguishing complexion, so peculiarly the lady in it,
• 4:41:46
  Speaker 1: Dot just color enough for beauty. I have always admired
• 4:41:50
  Speaker 1: her complexion, replied Emma archly. But do not I remember
• 4:41:54
  Speaker 1: the time when you found fault with her for being
• 4:41:55
  Speaker 1: so pale when we first began to talk of her, Dot?
• 4:41:58
  Speaker 1: Have you quite forgotten? Oh no, what an impudent dog
• 4:42:05
  Speaker 1: I was? How could I dare? But he laughed so
• 4:42:07
  Speaker 1: heartily at the recollection that Emma could not help saying,
• 4:42:11
  Speaker 1: I do suspect that, in the midst of your perplexities
• 4:42:13
  Speaker 1: at that time, you had very great amusement in tricking
• 4:42:15
  Speaker 1: us Alda. I am sure you had, Dot. I am
• 4:42:18
  Speaker 1: sure it was a consolation to you. Oh no, no, no,
• 4:42:24
  Speaker 1: how can you suspect me of such a thing. I
• 4:42:27
  Speaker 1: was the most miserable wretch, not quite so miserable as
• 4:42:31
  Speaker 1: to be insensible to mirth. I am sure it was
• 4:42:34
  Speaker 1: a source of high entertainment to you to feel that
• 4:42:36
  Speaker 1: you were taking us all in debt. Perhaps I am
• 4:42:40
  Speaker 1: the readier to suspect, because, to tell you the truth,
• 4:42:43
  Speaker 1: I think it might have been some amusement to myself
• 4:42:45
  Speaker 1: in the same situation. I think there is a little
• 4:42:48
  Speaker 1: likeness between us, he bowed. If not in our dispositions,
• 4:42:53
  Speaker 1: she presently added, with a look of true sensibility, there
• 4:42:57
  Speaker 1: is a likeness in our destiny, the destiny which bids
• 4:43:00
  Speaker 1: to connect us with two characters so much superior to
• 4:43:02
  Speaker 1: our own. True true, he answered warmly, No, not true
• 4:43:08
  Speaker 1: on your side. You can have no superior, but most
• 4:43:12
  Speaker 1: true on mind. She is a complete angel. Look at her?
• 4:43:17
  Speaker 1: Is not she an angel? In every gesture? Observe the
• 4:43:21
  Speaker 1: turn of her throat. Observe her eyes as she is
• 4:43:24
  Speaker 1: looking up at my father to you will be glad
• 4:43:26
  Speaker 1: to hear inclining his head and whispering seriously that my
• 4:43:30
  Speaker 1: uncle means to give her all my aunt's jewels. They
• 4:43:33
  Speaker 1: are to be new set. I am resolved to have
• 4:43:36
  Speaker 1: some in an ornament for the head. Will not it
• 4:43:39
  Speaker 1: be beautiful in her dark hair? Very beautiful, indeed, replied Emma,
• 4:43:44
  Speaker 1: And she spoke so kindly that he gratefully burst out,
• 4:43:48
  Speaker 1: how delighted I am to see you again, and to
• 4:43:51
  Speaker 1: see you in such excellent looks. I would not have
• 4:43:53
  Speaker 1: missed this meeting for the world. I should certainly have
• 4:43:57
  Speaker 1: called at Hartfield had you failed to come. The others
• 4:44:00
  Speaker 1: had been talking of the child, Missus Weston, giving an
• 4:44:03
  Speaker 1: account of a little alarm she had been under the
• 4:44:05
  Speaker 1: evening before from the infants, appearing not quite well. She
• 4:44:09
  Speaker 1: believed she had been foolish, but it had alarmed her,
• 4:44:12
  Speaker 1: and she had been within half a minute of sending
• 4:44:14
  Speaker 1: for mister Perry. Perhaps she ought to be ashamed, but
• 4:44:18
  Speaker 1: mister Weston had been almost as uneasy as herself to
• 4:44:21
  Speaker 1: in ten minutes, however, the child had been perfectly well. Again,
• 4:44:25
  Speaker 1: this was her history, and particularly interesting it was to
• 4:44:28
  Speaker 1: mister Woodhouse, who commended her very much for thinking of
• 4:44:31
  Speaker 1: sending for Perry, and only regretted that she had not
• 4:44:33
  Speaker 1: done it. She should always send for Perry if the
• 4:44:37
  Speaker 1: child appeared in the slightest degree disordered, were it only
• 4:44:40
  Speaker 1: for a moment, she could not be too soon alarmed,
• 4:44:43
  Speaker 1: nor send for Perry too often. It was a pity,
• 4:44:47
  Speaker 1: perhaps that he had not come last night, for though
• 4:44:50
  Speaker 1: the child seemed well now, very well, considering it would
• 4:44:53
  Speaker 1: probably have been better if Perry had seen it. Frank
• 4:44:57
  Speaker 1: Churchill caught the name Parry, said, ed he to Emma,
• 4:45:00
  Speaker 1: and trying as he spoke to catch Miss Fairfax's eye,
• 4:45:05
  Speaker 1: My friend, mister Perry. What are they saying about, mister Perry?
• 4:45:09
  Speaker 1: Has he been here this morning? And how does he
• 4:45:11
  Speaker 1: travel now? Has he set up his carriage? Emma soon
• 4:45:15
  Speaker 1: recollected and understood him, And while she joined in the laugh,
• 4:45:19
  Speaker 1: it was evident from Jane's countenance that she too was
• 4:45:21
  Speaker 1: really hearing him, though trying to seem deaf. Such an
• 4:45:25
  Speaker 1: extraordinary dream of mine, he cried, I can never think
• 4:45:30
  Speaker 1: of it without laughing. She hears us, she hears us,
• 4:45:33
  Speaker 1: Miss Woodhouse. I see it in her cheek, her smile,
• 4:45:38
  Speaker 1: her vain attempt to frown. Look at her, Do not
• 4:45:42
  Speaker 1: you see that at this instant, the very passage of
• 4:45:45
  Speaker 1: her own letter which sent me the report, is passing
• 4:45:47
  Speaker 1: under her eye, that the whole blunder is spread before her,
• 4:45:50
  Speaker 1: that she can attend to nothing else. Though pretending to
• 4:45:53
  Speaker 1: listen to the others, Jane was forced to smile completely
• 4:45:57
  Speaker 1: for a moment, and the smile partly remained as she
• 4:46:00
  Speaker 1: turned towards him and said, in a conscious, low yet
• 4:46:03
  Speaker 1: steady voice, how you can bear such recollections is astonishing
• 4:46:07
  Speaker 1: to me. They will sometimes obtrude, but how you can
• 4:46:10
  Speaker 1: court them? He had a great deal to say in return,
• 4:46:13
  Speaker 1: and very entertainingly. But Emma's feelings were chiefly with Jane
• 4:46:17
  Speaker 1: in the argument, and on leaving Randall's and falling naturally
• 4:46:20
  Speaker 1: into a comparison of the two men, she felt that
• 4:46:23
  Speaker 1: pleased as she had been to see Frank Churchill, and
• 4:46:26
  Speaker 1: really regarding him as she did with friendship, she had
• 4:46:29
  Speaker 1: never been more sensible of mister Knightley's high superiority of character.
• 4:46:34
  Speaker 1: The happiness of this most happy day received its completion
• 4:46:37
  Speaker 1: in the animated contemplation of his worth which this comparison
• 4:46:40
  Speaker 1: produced chapter nineteen. If Emma had still, at intervals an
• 4:46:45
  Speaker 1: anxious feeling for Harriet, a momentary doubt of its being
• 4:46:48
  Speaker 1: possible for her to be really cured of her attachment
• 4:46:50
  Speaker 1: to mister Knightley and really able to accept another man
• 4:46:53
  Speaker 1: from unbiased inclination, it was not long that she had
• 4:46:56
  Speaker 1: to suffer from the recurrence of any such uncertainty. Very
• 4:47:00
  Speaker 1: few days brought the party from London, and she had
• 4:47:02
  Speaker 1: no sooner an opportunity of being one hour alone with
• 4:47:05
  Speaker 1: Harriet than she became perfectly satisfied, unaccountable as it was
• 4:47:09
  Speaker 1: that Robert Martin had thoroughly supplanted mister Knightley and was
• 4:47:12
  Speaker 1: now forming all her views of happiness. Harriet was a
• 4:47:16
  Speaker 1: little distressed, did look a little foolish at first, but
• 4:47:19
  Speaker 1: having once owned that she had been presumptuous and silly
• 4:47:22
  Speaker 1: and self deceived before her pain and confusion seemed to
• 4:47:26
  Speaker 1: die away with the words, and leave her without a
• 4:47:28
  Speaker 1: care for the past, and with the fullest exultation in
• 4:47:31
  Speaker 1: the present and future. For as to her friend's approbation,
• 4:47:35
  Speaker 1: Emma had instantly removed every fear of that nature by
• 4:47:38
  Speaker 1: meeting her with the most unqualified congratulations. Harriet was most
• 4:47:42
  Speaker 1: happy to give every particular of the evening at Astley's
• 4:47:44
  Speaker 1: and the dinner the next day. She could dwell on
• 4:47:47
  Speaker 1: it all with the utmost delight. But what did such
• 4:47:50
  Speaker 1: particulars explain? The fact was, as Emma could now acknowledge
• 4:47:55
  Speaker 1: that Harriet had always liked Robert Martin, and that his
• 4:47:58
  Speaker 1: continuing to love her had been irresists beyond this, it
• 4:48:01
  Speaker 1: must ever be unintelligible to Emma. The event, however, was
• 4:48:06
  Speaker 1: most joyful, and every day was giving her fresh reason
• 4:48:09
  Speaker 1: for thinking soda. Harriet's parentage became known. She proved to
• 4:48:13
  Speaker 1: be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford
• 4:48:16
  Speaker 1: her the comfortable maintenance which had ever been hers, and
• 4:48:18
  Speaker 1: decent enough to have always wished for concealment. Such was
• 4:48:21
  Speaker 1: the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so
• 4:48:24
  Speaker 1: ready to vouch for. It was likely to be as untainted,
• 4:48:28
  Speaker 1: perhaps as the blood of many a gentleman. But what
• 4:48:31
  Speaker 1: a connection had she been preparing for mister Knightley, or
• 4:48:34
  Speaker 1: for the Chichills, or even from mister Elton. The stain
• 4:48:37
  Speaker 1: of illegitimacy unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been
• 4:48:40
  Speaker 1: a stain. Indeed, no objection was raised on the father's side.
• 4:48:45
  Speaker 1: The young man was treated liberally. It was all as
• 4:48:47
  Speaker 1: it should be. And as Emma became acquainted with Robert Martin,
• 4:48:51
  Speaker 1: who was now introduced at Hartfield, she fully acknowledged in
• 4:48:54
  Speaker 1: him all the appearance of sense and worth which could
• 4:48:56
  Speaker 1: bid ferrist for her little friend. She had no doubt
• 4:48:59
  Speaker 1: of her Harriet's happiness with any good tempered man, but
• 4:49:02
  Speaker 1: with him, and in the home he offered, there would
• 4:49:04
  Speaker 1: be the hope of more of security, stability, and improvement.
• 4:49:09
  Speaker 1: She would be placed in the midst of those who
• 4:49:11
  Speaker 1: loved her and who had better sense than herself. Retired
• 4:49:14
  Speaker 1: enough for safety and occupied enough for cheerfulness. She would
• 4:49:18
  Speaker 1: be never led into temptation, nor left for it to
• 4:49:21
  Speaker 1: find her out. She would be respectable and happy, and
• 4:49:24
  Speaker 1: Emma admitted her to be the luckiest creature in the
• 4:49:27
  Speaker 1: world to have created so steady and persevering an affection
• 4:49:30
  Speaker 1: in such a man or, if not quite the luckiest
• 4:49:33
  Speaker 1: to yield only to herself. Harriet, necessarily drawn away by
• 4:49:37
  Speaker 1: her engagements with the Martins, was less and less at Hartfield,
• 4:49:41
  Speaker 1: which was not to be regretted. Dot the intimacy between
• 4:49:45
  Speaker 1: her and Emma must sink. Their friendship must change into
• 4:49:48
  Speaker 1: a commer sort of goodwill. And fortunately, what ought to
• 4:49:51
  Speaker 1: be and must be, seemed already beginning and in the
• 4:49:54
  Speaker 1: most gradual natural manner. Before the end of September, Emma
• 4:49:59
  Speaker 1: attended Harriet to church and saw her hand bestowed on
• 4:50:02
  Speaker 1: Robert Martin with so complete a satisfaction as no remembrances
• 4:50:06
  Speaker 1: even connected with mister Elton as he stood before them,
• 4:50:09
  Speaker 1: could impaired. Perhaps indeed, at that time she scarcely saw
• 4:50:13
  Speaker 1: mister Elton, but as the clergyman whose blessing it the
• 4:50:16
  Speaker 1: altar might next fall on her self. To Robert Martin
• 4:50:19
  Speaker 1: and Harriet Smith, the latest couple engaged. Of the three,
• 4:50:22
  Speaker 1: were the first to be married. Jane Fairfax had already
• 4:50:26
  Speaker 1: quitted Highbury and was restored to the comforts of her
• 4:50:28
  Speaker 1: beloved home with the Campbell's Dot. The mister Chichills were
• 4:50:32
  Speaker 1: also in town, and they were only waiting for November.
• 4:50:36
  Speaker 1: The intermediate month was the one fixed on as far
• 4:50:39
  Speaker 1: as they dared by Emma and mister Knightley Dot. They
• 4:50:43
  Speaker 1: had determined that their marriage ought to be concluded while
• 4:50:45
  Speaker 1: John and Isabella were still at Hartfield, to allow them
• 4:50:48
  Speaker 1: the fortnight's absence in a tour to the sea side,
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  Speaker 1: which was the planned. John and Isabella and every other
• 4:50:54
  Speaker 1: friend were agreed in approving it. But mister Woodhouse. How
• 4:50:58
  Speaker 1: was mister Woodhouse to be induced to consent, He who
• 4:51:02
  Speaker 1: had never yet alluded to their marriage but as a
• 4:51:05
  Speaker 1: distant event when first sounded on the subject, he was
• 4:51:08
  Speaker 1: so miserable that they were almost hopeless to a second
• 4:51:12
  Speaker 1: illusion indeed gave less pain. He began to think it
• 4:51:15
  Speaker 1: was to be, and that he could not prevent it,
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  Speaker 1: a very promising step of the mind on its way
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  Speaker 1: to resignation. Still, however, he was not happy, Nay, he
• 4:51:26
  Speaker 1: appeared so much otherwise that his daughter's courage failed. She
• 4:51:30
  Speaker 1: could not bear to see him, suffering to know him,
• 4:51:32
  Speaker 1: fancying himself neglected. And though her understanding almost acquiesced in
• 4:51:36
  Speaker 1: the assurance of both the mister Knightley's that when once
• 4:51:39
  Speaker 1: the event were over, his distress would be soon over too,
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  Speaker 1: she hesitated. She could not proceed in this state of suspense.
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  Speaker 1: They were befriended not by any sudden illumination of mister
• 4:51:50
  Speaker 1: Woodhouse's mind, or any wonderful change of his nervous system,
• 4:51:54
  Speaker 1: but by the operation of the same system. In another way,
• 4:51:57
  Speaker 1: Missus Weston's poultry house was robbed one night of all
• 4:52:01
  Speaker 1: her turkeys, evidently by the ingenuity of man. Other poultry
• 4:52:05
  Speaker 1: yards in the neighborhood also suffered pilfering was housebreaking to
• 4:52:08
  Speaker 1: mister Woodhouse's feersda. He was very uneasy, and but for
• 4:52:12
  Speaker 1: the sense of his son in law's protection would have
• 4:52:14
  Speaker 1: been under wretched alarm every night of his life. The strength, resolution,
• 4:52:19
  Speaker 1: and presence of mind of the mister Knightleys commanded his
• 4:52:22
  Speaker 1: fullest dependence while either of them protected him, and his
• 4:52:26
  Speaker 1: Hartfield was safe dot But mister John Knightley must be
• 4:52:29
  Speaker 1: in London again by the end of the first week
• 4:52:31
  Speaker 1: in November. The result of this distress was that, with
• 4:52:35
  Speaker 1: a much more voluntary, cheerful consent than his daughter had
• 4:52:38
  Speaker 1: ever presumed to hope for, at the moment she was
• 4:52:40
  Speaker 1: able to fix her wedding day, and mister Elton was
• 4:52:43
  Speaker 1: called on within a month from the marriage of mister
• 4:52:45
  Speaker 1: and Missus Robert Martin to join the hands of mister
• 4:52:48
  Speaker 1: Knightley and Miss Woodhouse. The wedding was very much like
• 4:52:51
  Speaker 1: other weddings where the parties have no taste for finery
• 4:52:54
  Speaker 1: or parade, and Missus Elton, from the particulars detailed by
• 4:52:58
  Speaker 1: her husband, thought it all extremely shy and very inferior
• 4:53:01
  Speaker 1: to her own da very little white satin, very few
• 4:53:04
  Speaker 1: lace veils, a most pitiful business, Selina would stare when
• 4:53:08
  Speaker 1: she heard of it. But in spite of these deficiencies,
• 4:53:13
  Speaker 1: the wishes the hopes, the confidence the predictions of the
• 4:53:16
  Speaker 1: small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony were
• 4:53:19
  Speaker 1: fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.