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Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes. A few minutes were sufficient for making her acquainted with her own heart. A mind like hers, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress. She touched— she admitted—she acknowledged the whole truth. Why was it so much worse that Harriet should be in love with Mr. Knightley, than with Frank Churchill? Why was the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet’s having some hope of a return? It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!

Even Elizabeth began to fear—not that Bingley was indifferent—but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" "Oh!

for he was discovered to be proud;

The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. I

Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.

of large fortune from the north of England; that he came

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.

ground. They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood

And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which asked the question.

EMMA WOODHOUSE, bella, inteligente y rica, con una familia acomodada y un buen carácter, parecía reunir en su persona los mejores dones de la existencia; y había vivido cerca de veintiún años sin que casi nada la afligiera o la enojase.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design— to take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.

clever

know

Doubtless it was so, and she could take no revenge, for he was not altered, or not for the worse. She had already acknowledged it to herself, and she could not think differently, let him think of her as he would. No:

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Later

Oh! my dear Mr. Bennet," as she entered the room, "we have had a most delightful

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone

Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners were very much admired at the Parsonage, and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasures of their engagements at Rosings. It was some days, however, before they received any invitation thither—for while there

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.