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Chapter IV Harriet Smith's intimacy at Hartfield was soon a settled thing.
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As a walking companion, Emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her.
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In that respect Mrs. Weston's loss had been important.
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Her father never went beyond the shrubbery, where two divisions of the ground sufficed him for his long walk, or his short, as the year varied;
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and since Mrs. Weston's marriage her exercise had been too much confined.
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She had ventured once alone to Randalls, but it was not pleasant;
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But in every respect, as she saw more of her, she approved her, and was confirmed in all her kind designs.
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"Six years hence!"
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Mr. Martin, I imagine, has his fortune entirely to make--cannot be at all beforehand with the world.
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"and though, with diligence and good luck, he may be rich in time, it is next to impossible that he should have realised any thing yet."
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But they live very comfortably.
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They have no indoors man, else they do not want for any thing;
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"I wish you may not get into a scrape, Harriet, whenever he does marry;"
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The misfortune of your birth ought to make you particularly careful as to your associates.
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"Yes, to be sure, I suppose there are."
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"But while I visit at Hartfield, and you are so kind to me, Miss Woodhouse, I am not afraid of what any body can do."
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"You understand the force of influence pretty well, Harriet;"
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I shall always have a great regard for the Miss Martins, especially Elizabeth, and should be very sorry to give them up, for they are quite as well educated as me.
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He was on foot, and after looking very respectfully at her, looked with most unfeigned satisfaction at her companion.
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Emma was not sorry to have such an opportunity of survey;
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and when he came to be contrasted with gentlemen, she thought he must lose all the ground he had gained in Harriet's inclination.
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Harriet was not insensible of manner;
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and Harriet then came running to her with a smiling face, and in a flutter of spirits, which Miss Woodhouse hoped very soon to compose.
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Altogether she was quite convinced of Harriet Smith's being exactly the young friend she wanted--exactly the something which her home required.
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He was so busy the last time he was at Kingston that he quite forgot it, but he goes again to-morrow.
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"He is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility."
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Such a friend as Mrs. Weston was out of the question.
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"To be sure," said Harriet, in a mortified voice, "he is not so genteel as real gentlemen."
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Were not you struck?
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He has not such a fine air and way of walking as Mr. Knightley.
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I see the difference plain enough.
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"But Mr. Knightley is so very fine a man!"
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Compare their manner of carrying themselves;
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of walking;
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"You must see the difference."
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But Mr. Weston is almost an old man.
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"Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty."
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It was quite a different sort of thing, a sentiment distinct and independent.
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What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.
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"There is no saying, indeed," replied Harriet rather solemnly.
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"He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss."
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"Will he, indeed?"
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"How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended."
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Mrs. Weston was the object of a regard which had its basis in gratitude and esteem.
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What has he to do with books?
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Her next beginning was, "In one respect, perhaps, Mr. Elton's manners are superior to Mr. Knightley's or Mr. Weston's."
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Harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be useful.
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Mr. Elton is good-humoured, cheerful, obliging, and gentle.
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For Mrs. Weston there was nothing to be done;
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for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property;
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and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any deficiency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.
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She had already satisfied herself that he thought Harriet a beautiful girl, which she trusted, with such frequent meetings at Hartfield, was foundation enough on his side;
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and on Harriet's there could be little doubt that the idea of being preferred by him would have all the usual weight and efficacy.
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Emma was obliged to fancy what she liked--but she could never believe that in the same situation she should not have discovered the truth.
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But the Martins occupied her thoughts a good deal;
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she had spent two very happy months with them, and now loved to talk of the pleasures of her visit, and describe the many comforts and wonders of the place.
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and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow;
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but as she came to understand the family better, other feelings arose.
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She had taken up a wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and son's wife, who all lived together;
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that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in the case;
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With this inspiriting notion, her questions increased in number and meaning;
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He could sing a little himself.
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He had a very fine flock, and, while she was with them, he had been bid more for his wool than any body in the country.
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His mother and sisters were very fond of him.
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"And when she had come away, Mrs. Martin was so very kind as to send Mrs. Goddard a beautiful goose--the finest goose Mrs. Goddard had ever seen."
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"Mrs. Goddard had dressed it on a Sunday, and asked all the three teachers, Miss Nash, and Miss Prince, and Miss Richardson, to sup with her."
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He reads the Agricultural Reports, and some other books that lay in one of the window seats--but he reads all them to himself.
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But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining.
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I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now.
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One does not, you know, after a time.
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The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do.
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A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me;
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His mother is perfectly right not to be in a hurry.
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They seem very comfortable as they are, and if she were to take any pains to marry him, she would probably repent it.
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"Six years hence, if he could meet with a good sort of young woman in the same rank as his own, with a little money, it might be very desirable."
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Chapter V "I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston," said Mr. Knightley, "of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing."
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"A bad thing!"
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Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good.
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How very differently we feel!
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Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it;
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With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature.
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she has qualities which may be trusted;
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she will make no lasting blunder;
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John loves Emma with a reasonable and therefore not a blind affection, and Isabella always thinks as he does;
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"I am much obliged to you for it."
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There were wishes at Randalls respecting Emma's destiny, but it was not desirable to have them suspected;
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and the quiet transition which Mr. Knightley soon afterwards made to "What does Weston think of the weather;"
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"shall we have rain?"
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convinced her that he had nothing more to say or surmise about Hartfield.
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But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma.
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"but since we have parted, I can never remember Emma's omitting to do any thing I wished."
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and for a moment or two he had done.
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"But I," he soon added, "who have had no such charm thrown over my senses, must still see, hear, and remember."
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She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.
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You might not give Emma such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise;
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but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid;
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"There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as Mr. Weston."
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"Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne."
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"Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him."
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She knows nothing herself, and looks upon Emma as knowing every thing.
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