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She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; | CB-EM-01-03.wav | |
and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. | CB-EM-01-04.wav | |
Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma. | CB-EM-01-07.wav | |
It was a happy circumstance, and animated Mr. Woodhouse for some time. | CB-EM-01-102.wav | |
and his many inquiries after "poor Isabella" and her children were answered most satisfactorily. | CB-EM-01-104.wav | |
When this was over, Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observed, "It is very kind of you, Mr. Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us." | CB-EM-01-105.wav | |
It is a beautiful moonlight night; | CB-EM-01-107.wav | |
highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but directed chiefly by her own. | CB-EM-01-11.wav | |
that is quite surprising, for we have had a vast deal of rain here. | CB-EM-01-115.wav | |
"By the bye--I have not wished you joy." | CB-EM-01-118.wav | |
Being pretty well aware of what sort of joy you must both be feeling, I have been in no hurry with my congratulations; | CB-EM-01-119.wav | |
The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; | CB-EM-01-12.wav | |
but I hope it all went off tolerably well. | CB-EM-01-120.wav | |
"Poor Mr. and Miss Woodhouse, if you please;" | CB-EM-01-126.wav | |
but I cannot possibly say 'poor Miss Taylor. | CB-EM-01-127.wav | |
I have a great regard for you and Emma; | CB-EM-01-128.wav | |
but when it comes to the question of dependence or independence! | CB-EM-01-129.wav | |
"Especially when one of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature!" | CB-EM-01-131.wav | |
"That is what you have in your head, I know--and what you would certainly say if my father were not by." | CB-EM-01-133.wav | |
What a horrible idea! | CB-EM-01-138.wav | |
"Emma knows I never flatter her," said Mr. Knightley, "but I meant no reflection on any body." | CB-EM-01-144.wav | |
Miss Taylor has been used to have two persons to please; | CB-EM-01-145.wav | |
she will now have but one. | CB-EM-01-146.wav | |
"Well," said Emma, willing to let it pass--"you want to hear about the wedding;" | CB-EM-01-148.wav | |
"And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me," said Emma, "and a very considerable one--that I made the match myself." | CB-EM-01-161.wav | |
"I promise you to make none for myself, papa;" | CB-EM-01-168.wav | |
It was Miss Taylor's loss which first brought grief. | CB-EM-01-17.wav | |
And after such success, you know! | CB-EM-01-171.wav | |
All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it. | CB-EM-01-178.wav | |
"I do not understand what you mean by 'success,'" said Mr. Knightley. | CB-EM-01-182.wav | |
You made a lucky guess; | CB-EM-01-189.wav | |
The wedding over, and the bride-people gone, her father and herself were left to dine together, with no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening. | CB-EM-01-19.wav | |
"And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess?" | CB-EM-01-191.wav | |
I pity you. | CB-EM-01-192.wav | |
If I had not promoted Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all. | CB-EM-01-198.wav | |
"You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference." | CB-EM-01-201.wav | |
You like Mr. Elton, papa,--I must look about for a wife for him. | CB-EM-01-208.wav | |
"I dare say Mr. Knightley will be so kind as to meet him." | CB-EM-01-214.wav | |
"With a great deal of pleasure, sir, at any time," said Mr. Knightley, laughing, "and I agree with you entirely, that it will be a much better thing." | CB-EM-01-215.wav | |
but it was a black morning's work for her. | CB-EM-01-24.wav | |
How was she to bear the change? | CB-EM-01-30.wav | |
She dearly loved her father, but he was no companion for her. | CB-EM-01-34.wav | |
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; | CB-EM-01-36.wav | |
Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; | CB-EM-01-39.wav | |
His spirits required support. | CB-EM-01-47.wav | |
hating change of every kind. | CB-EM-01-50.wav | |
but when tea came, it was impossible for him not to say exactly as he had said at dinner, "Poor Miss Taylor!" | CB-EM-01-55.wav | |
"What a pity it is that Mr. Weston ever thought of her!" | CB-EM-01-57.wav | |
"I cannot agree with you, papa;" | CB-EM-01-58.wav | |
you know I cannot. | CB-EM-01-59.wav | |
Mr. Weston is such a good-humoured, pleasant, excellent man, that he thoroughly deserves a good wife; | CB-EM-01-60.wav | |
"How often we shall be going to see them, and they coming to see us!" | CB-EM-01-66.wav | |
"No, papa, nobody thought of your walking." | CB-EM-01-73.wav | |
"We must go in the carriage, to be sure." | CB-EM-01-74.wav | |
"The carriage!" | CB-EM-01-75.wav | |
"They are to be put into Mr. Weston's stable, papa." | CB-EM-01-78.wav | |
We talked it all over with Mr. Weston last night. | CB-EM-01-80.wav | |
He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening. | CB-EM-02-19.wav | |
He had still a small house in Highbury, where most of his leisure days were spent; | CB-EM-02-21.wav | |
and was beginning a new period of existence, with every probability of greater happiness than in any yet passed through. | CB-EM-02-28.wav | |
He had never been an unhappy man; | CB-EM-02-29.wav | |
his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; | CB-EM-02-30.wav | |
It was most unlikely, therefore, that he should ever want his father's assistance. | CB-EM-02-34.wav | |
The aunt was a capricious woman, and governed her husband entirely; | CB-EM-02-36.wav | |
but it was not in Mr. Weston's nature to imagine that any caprice could be strong enough to affect one so dear, and, as he believed, so deservedly dear. | CB-EM-02-37.wav | |
Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; | CB-EM-02-45.wav | |
Mr. Woodhouse told me of it. | CB-EM-02-50.wav | |
It was, indeed, a highly prized letter. | CB-EM-02-52.wav | |
She felt herself a most fortunate woman; | CB-EM-02-55.wav | |
Her situation was altogether the subject of hours of gratitude to Mrs. Weston, and of moments only of regret; | CB-EM-02-61.wav | |
There was no recovering Miss Taylor--nor much likelihood of ceasing to pity her; | CB-EM-02-65.wav | |
and he had, therefore, earnestly tried to dissuade them from having any wedding-cake at all, and when that proved vain, as earnestly tried to prevent any body's eating it. | CB-EM-02-72.wav | |
Mr. Perry was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr. Woodhouse's life; | CB-EM-02-74.wav | |
With such an opinion, in confirmation of his own, Mr. Woodhouse hoped to influence every visitor of the newly married pair; | CB-EM-02-76.wav | |
Chapter III Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. | CB-EM-03-01.wav | |
He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle; | CB-EM-03-04.wav | |
Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; | CB-EM-03-07.wav | |
Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. | CB-EM-03-16.wav | |
Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible. | CB-EM-03-20.wav | |
And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good-will. | CB-EM-03-21.wav | |
thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing. | CB-EM-03-24.wav | |
The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself. | CB-EM-03-25.wav | |
She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip. | CB-EM-03-26.wav | |
Mrs. Goddard's school was in high repute--and very deservedly; | CB-EM-03-28.wav | |
but the quiet prosings of three such women made her feel that every evening so spent was indeed one of the long evenings she had fearfully anticipated. | CB-EM-03-37.wav | |
A very gracious invitation was returned, and the evening no longer dreaded by the fair mistress of the mansion. | CB-EM-03-40.wav | |
She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly admired. | CB-EM-03-45.wav | |
The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm. | CB-EM-03-51.wav | |
she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; | CB-EM-03-55.wav | |
she would form her opinions and her manners. | CB-EM-03-56.wav | |
It would be an interesting, and certainly a very kind undertaking; | CB-EM-03-57.wav | |
highly becoming her own situation in life, her leisure, and powers. | CB-EM-03-58.wav | |
Upon such occasions poor Mr. Woodhouse's feelings were in sad warfare. | CB-EM-03-62.wav | |
and while his hospitality would have welcomed his visitors to every thing, his care for their health made him grieve that they would eat. | CB-EM-03-64.wav | |
though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say: "Mrs. Bates, let me propose your venturing on one of these eggs." | CB-EM-03-66.wav | |
Ours are all apple-tarts. | CB-EM-03-72.wav | |
You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here. | CB-EM-03-73.wav | |
I do not advise the custard. | CB-EM-03-74.wav | |
Mrs. Goddard, what say you to half a glass of wine? | CB-EM-03-75.wav | |
Emma allowed her father to talk--but supplied her visitors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy. | CB-EM-03-78.wav |
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