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id: austen-emma_017-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_017-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, ceremonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossibility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense--and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them. It did, however.--Her father was quite taken up with the surprize of so sudden a journey, and his fears that Mr. Elton might never get safely to the end of it, and saw nothing extraordinary in his language.


id: austen-emma_002-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_002-1815
date: 1815
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words: 1780
sentence: 53
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Mr. Frank Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury, and a lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the compliment was so little returned that he had never been there in his life. Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion.


id: austen-emma_016-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_016-1815
date: 1815
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words: 1885
sentence: 59
flesch: 62
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summary:
  She remembered what Mr. Knightley had once said to her about Mr. Elton, the caution he had given, the conviction he had professed that Mr. Elton would never marry indiscreetly; and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shewn than any she had reached herself. It was dreadfully mortifying; but Mr. Elton was proving himself, in many respects, the very reverse of what she had meant and believed him; proud, assuming, conceited; very full of his own claims, and little concerned about the feelings of others.


id: austen-emma_011-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_011-1815
date: 1815
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words: 2168
sentence: 77
flesch: 68
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summary:
  It would be very hard upon Mr. Weston if she did not, papa.--You quite forget poor Mr. Weston. I think, indeed, said John Knightley pleasantly, that Mr. Weston has some little claim. Mr. Weston is really as kind as herself.


id: austen-emma_018-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_018-1815
date: 1815
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words: 2570
sentence: 93
flesch: 71
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summary:
  We do not often look upon fine young men, well-bred and agreeable. For half an hour Mr. Weston was surprized and sorry; but then he began to perceive that Frank's coming two or three months later would be a much better plan; better time of year; better weather; and that he would be able, without any doubt, to stay considerably longer with them than if he had come sooner.


id: austen-emma_014-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_014-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
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words: 2458
sentence: 75
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Mr. Weston, I dare say, has been telling you exactly how the matter stands? Yes--it seems to depend upon nothing but the ill-humour of Mrs. Churchill, which I imagine to be the most certain thing in the world. She could tell nothing of Hartfield, in which Mrs. Weston had not a lively concern; and half an hour's uninterrupted communication of all those little matters on which the daily happiness of private life depends, was one of the first gratifications of each.


id: austen-emma_007-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_007-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
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words: 2418
sentence: 118
flesch: 79
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summary:
  She had heard, as soon as she got back to Mrs. Goddard's, that Mr. Martin had been there an hour before, and finding she was not at home, nor particularly expected, had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters, and gone away; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, besides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this letter was from him, from Mr. Martin, and contained a direct proposal of marriage. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?


id: austen-emma_010-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_010-1815
date: 1815
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words: 2640
sentence: 97
flesch: 71
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summary:
  The lane made a slight bend; and when that bend was passed, Mr. Elton was immediately in sight; and so near as to give Emma time only to say farther, Ah! Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our stability in good thoughts. Harriet, she found, had never in her life been inside the Vicarage, and her curiosity to see it was so extreme, that, considering exteriors and probabilities, Emma could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her.


id: austen-emma_006-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_006-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
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words: 2781
sentence: 134
flesch: 78
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summary:
  CHAPTER VI Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fancy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admiration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for. It would be such a delight to have her picture! Let me entreat you, cried Mr. Elton; it would indeed be a delight!


id: austen-emma_019-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_019-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3062
sentence: 112
flesch: 75
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summary:
  At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma's brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery, You must feel it very fortunate that Miss Fairfax should be allowed to come to you at such a time. She had not been prepared to have Jane Fairfax succeed Mr. Elton; but he was actually hurried off by Miss Bates, she jumped away from him at last abruptly to the Coles, to usher in a letter from her niece.


id: austen-emma_001-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_001-1815
date: 1815
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words: 3334
sentence: 140
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Tis a sad business. Poor Mr. and Miss Woodhouse, if you please; but I cannot possibly say 'poor Miss Taylor.' But, Mr. Knightley, she is really very sorry to lose poor Miss Taylor, and I am sure she will miss her more than she thinks for.


id: austen-emma_020-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_020-1815
date: 1815
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words: 2399
sentence: 79
flesch: 61
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summary:
  They continued together with unabated regard however, till the marriage of Miss Campbell, who by that chance, that luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior, engaged the affections of Mr. Dixon, a young man, rich and agreeable, almost as soon as they were acquainted; and was eligibly and happily settled, while Jane Fairfax had yet her bread to earn. Fairfax of the ----regiment of infantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in action abroad--of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards--and this girl.


id: austen-emma_012-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_012-1815
date: 1815
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words: 3247
sentence: 129
flesch: 75
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summary:
  He paused--and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of an hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or inconvenience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself. True, true, cried Mr. Knightley, with most ready interposition--very true. I think Mr. John Knightley very far from looking well. What is the matter, sir?--Did you speak to me? cried Mr. John Knightley, hearing his own name.


id: austen-emma_013-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_013-1815
date: 1815
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words: 3017
sentence: 97
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Harriet, Mr. Elton, and Mr. Knightley, their own especial set, were the only persons invited to meet them;--the hours were to be early, as well as the numbers few; Mr. Woodhouse's habits and inclination being consulted in every thing. She had not advanced many yards from Mrs. Goddard's door, when she was met by Mr. Elton himself, evidently coming towards it, and as they walked on slowly together in conversation about the invalid--of whom he, on the rumour of considerable illness, had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield--they were overtaken by Mr. John Knightley returning from the daily visit to Donwell, with his two eldest boys, whose healthy, glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for.


id: austen-emma_032-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_032-1815
date: 1815
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words: 3829
sentence: 191
flesch: 79
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summary:
  From Harriet's happening not to be at Hartfield, and her father's being present to engage Mr. Elton, she had a quarter of an hour of the lady's conversation to herself, and could composedly attend to her; and the quarter of an hour quite convinced her that Mrs. Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own importance; that she meant to shine and be very superior, but with manners which had been formed in a bad school, pert and familiar; that all her notions were drawn from one set of people, and one style of living; that if not foolish she was ignorant, and that her society would certainly do Mr. Elton no good. Mrs. Elton seemed most favourably impressed by the size of the room, the entrance, and all that she could see or imagine.


id: austen-emma_015-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_015-1815
date: 1815
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words: 3328
sentence: 115
flesch: 67
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summary:
  The carriage came: and Mr. Woodhouse, always the first object on such occasions, was carefully attended to his own by Mr. Knightley and Mr. Weston; but not all that either could say could prevent some renewal of alarm at the sight of the snow which had actually fallen, and the discovery of a much darker night than he had been prepared for. She had not time to know how Mr. Elton took the reproof, so rapidly did another subject succeed; for Mr. John Knightley now came into the room from examining the weather, and opened on them all with the information of the ground being covered with snow, and of its still snowing fast, with a strong drifting wind; concluding with these words to Mr. Woodhouse: This will prove a spirited beginning of your winter engagements, sir.


id: austen-emma_008-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_008-1815
date: 1815
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sentence: 173
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Pray, Mr. Knightley, said Emma, who had been smiling to herself through a great part of this speech, how do you know that Mr. Martin did not speak yesterday? Certainly, replied he, surprized, I do not absolutely know it; but it may be inferred. Mr. Knightley was a sort of general friend and adviser, and she knew Mr. Elton looked up to him.


id: austen-emma_009-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_009-1815
date: 1815
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sentence: 265
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Emma was soon perfectly satisfied of Mr. Martin's being no otherwise remembered, than as he furnished a contrast with Mr. Elton, of the utmost advantage to the latter. Mr. Elton was the only one whose assistance she asked.


id: austen-emma_004-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_004-1815
date: 1815
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words: 3557
sentence: 157
flesch: 76
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summary:
  What say you to Mr. Weston and Mr. Elton? With this inspiriting notion, her questions increased in number and meaning; and she particularly led Harriet to talk more of Mr. Martin, and there was evidently no dislike to it.


id: austen-emma_022-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_022-1815
date: 1815
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words: 1661
sentence: 54
flesch: 63
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summary:
  She was good enough for Mr. Elton, no doubt; accomplished enough for Highbury--handsome enough--to look plain, probably, by Harriet's side. Harriet had not been at home; but a note had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch; a small mixture of reproach, with a great deal of kindness; and till Mr. Elton himself appeared, she had been much occupied by it, continually pondering over what could be done in return, and wishing to do more than she dared to confess.


id: austen-emma_005-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_005-1815
date: 1815
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words: 2001
sentence: 94
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good. , said Mr. Knightley, of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing. A bad thing!


id: austen-emma_003-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_003-1815
date: 1815
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words: 1888
sentence: 58
flesch: 62
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summary:
  CHAPTER III Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.


id: austen-emma_031-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_031-1815
date: 1815
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words: 1970
sentence: 71
flesch: 67
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summary:
  She had had three weeks of happy exemption from Mr. Elton; and Harriet's mind, she had been willing to hope, had been lately gaining strength. Emma continued, I have not said, exert yourself Harriet for my sake; think less, talk less of Mr. Elton for my sake; because for your own sake rather, I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my comfort, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore your tranquillity.


id: austen-emma_025-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_025-1815
date: 1815
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words: 2350
sentence: 94
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Miss Taylor, if you had not married, you would have staid at home with me. Well, sir, cried Mr. Weston, as I took Miss Taylor away, it is incumbent on me to supply her place, if I can; and I will step to Mrs. Goddard in a moment, if you wish it. You will not like the noise. But, my dear sir, cried Mr. Weston, if Emma comes away early, it will be breaking up the party. And no great harm if it does, said Mr. Woodhouse.


id: austen-emma_021-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_021-1815
date: 1815
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words: 3968
sentence: 186
flesch: 82
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summary:
  CHAPTER III Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole; not so openly as he might have done had her father been out of the room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma. I am always watching her to admire; and I do pity her from my heart. Mr. Knightley looked as if he were more gratified than he cared to express; and before he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said-- It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined!


id: austen-emma_028-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_028-1815
date: 1815
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words: 2002
sentence: 113
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Tell me how Miss Fairfax is. And Miss Bates was obliged to give a direct answer before he would hear her in any thing else. What nonsense one talks, Miss Woodhouse, when hard at work, if one talks at all;--your real workmen, I suppose, hold their tongues; but we gentlemen labourers if we get hold of a word--Miss Fairfax said something about conjecturing.


id: austen-emma_024-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_024-1815
date: 1815
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sentence: 122
flesch: 72
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summary:
  The good lady had not given me the possibility of escape before. And how did you think Miss Fairfax looking? Ill, very ill--that is, if a young lady can ever be allowed to look ill. And, seriously, Miss Fairfax is naturally so pale, as almost always to give the appearance of ill health.--A most deplorable want of complexion.


id: austen-emma_023-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_023-1815
date: 1815
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sentence: 110
flesch: 67
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summary:
  There was instant pleasure in the sight of them, and still greater pleasure was conveyed in sound--for Mr. Weston immediately accosted her with, How d'ye do?--how d'ye do?--We have been sitting with your father--glad to see him so well. There was no resisting such news, no possibility of avoiding the influence of such a happy face as Mr. Weston's, confirmed as it all was by the words and the countenance of his wife, fewer and quieter, but not less to the purpose.


id: austen-emma_030-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_030-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 2151
sentence: 103
flesch: 76
cache: cache/austen-emma_030-1815.txt
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summary:
  He thought principally of Mrs. Churchill's illness, and wanted to know how she was treated; and as for the ball, it was shocking to have dear Emma disappointed; but they would all be safer at home. It had been a very happy fortnight, and forlorn must be the sinking from it into the common course of Hartfield days.


id: austen-emma_033-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_033-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 2981
sentence: 124
flesch: 70
cache: cache/austen-emma_033-1815.txt
txt: txt/austen-emma_033-1815.txt
summary:
  Mrs. Elton took a great fancy to Jane Fairfax; and from the first. The change on Mrs. Elton's side soon afterwards appeared, and she was left in peace--neither forced to be the very particular friend of Mrs. Elton, nor, under Mrs. Elton's guidance, the very active patroness of Jane Fairfax, and only sharing with others in a general way, in knowing what was felt, what was meditated, what was done.


id: austen-emma_027-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_027-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3221
sentence: 159
flesch: 83
cache: cache/austen-emma_027-1815.txt
txt: txt/austen-emma_027-1815.txt
summary:
  The scene enlarged; two persons appeared; Mrs. Weston and her son-in-law; they were walking into Highbury;--to Hartfield of course. Mrs. Weston informed her that she was going to call on the Bateses, in order to hear the new instrument.


id: austen-emma_034-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_034-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3114
sentence: 146
flesch: 77
cache: cache/austen-emma_034-1815.txt
txt: txt/austen-emma_034-1815.txt
summary:
  I have a note of his.--Do not you remember, Mrs. Weston, employing him to write for you one day? He chose to say he was employed-- Well, well, I have that note; and can shew it after dinner to convince Mr. Knightley. Oh! when a gallant young man, like Mr. Frank Churchill, said Mr. Knightley dryly, writes to a fair lady like Miss Woodhouse, he will, of course, put forth his best. The day came, the party were punctually assembled, and Mr. John Knightley seemed early to devote himself to the business of being agreeable.


id: austen-emma_036-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_036-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 2836
sentence: 137
flesch: 79
cache: cache/austen-emma_036-1815.txt
txt: txt/austen-emma_036-1815.txt
summary:
  After tea, Mr. and Mrs. Weston, and Mr. Elton sat down with Mr. Woodhouse to cards. I hope I shall soon have the pleasure of introducing my son to you, said Mr. Weston.


id: austen-emma_035-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_035-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 2229
sentence: 82
flesch: 73
cache: cache/austen-emma_035-1815.txt
txt: txt/austen-emma_035-1815.txt
summary:
  They were the first entitled, after Mrs. Weston and Emma, to be made happy;--from them he would have proceeded to Miss Fairfax, but she was so deep in conversation with John Knightley, that it would have been too positive an interruption; and finding himself close to Mrs. Elton, and her attention disengaged, he necessarily began on the subject with her. , Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;--with so much perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself.


id: austen-emma_029-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_029-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3278
sentence: 181
flesch: 81
cache: cache/austen-emma_029-1815.txt
txt: txt/austen-emma_029-1815.txt
summary:
  Mr. Weston entered into the idea with thorough enjoyment, and Mrs. Weston most willingly undertook to play as long as they could wish to dance; and the interesting employment had followed, of reckoning up exactly who there would be, and portioning out the indispensable division of space to every couple. But still she had inclination enough for shewing people again how delightfully Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Woodhouse danced--for doing that in which she need not blush to compare herself with Jane Fairfax--and even for simple dancing itself, without any of the wicked aids of vanity--to assist him first in pacing out the room they were in to see what it could be made to hold--and then in taking the dimensions of the other parlour, in the hope of discovering, in spite of all that Mr. Weston could say of their exactly equal size, that it was a little the largest.


id: austen-emma_037-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_037-1815
date: 1815
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 1286
sentence: 65
flesch: 78
cache: cache/austen-emma_037-1815.txt
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summary:
  CHAPTER I A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the nature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. This was the only visit from Frank Churchill in the course of ten days.


id: austen-emma_026-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_026-1815
date: 1815
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  He told her that he had been impatient to leave the dining-room--hated sitting long--was always the first to move when he could--that his father, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Cox, and Mr. Cole, were left very busy over parish business--that as long as he had staid, however, it had been pleasant enough, as he had found them in general a set of gentlemanlike, sensible men; and spoke so handsomely of Highbury altogether--thought it so abundant in agreeable families--that Emma began to feel she had been used to despise the place rather too much. She followed another carriage to Mr. Cole's door; and was pleased to see that it was Mr. Knightley's; for Mr. Knightley keeping no horses, having little spare money and a great deal of health, activity, and independence, was too apt, in Emma's opinion, to get about as he could, and not use his carriage so often as became the owner of Donwell Abbey.


id: austen-emma_039-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_039-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  But poor Harriet could not follow. A child on the watch, came towards them to beg; and Miss Bickerton, excessively frightened, gave a great scream, and calling on Harriet to follow her, ran up a steep bank, cleared a slight hedge at the top, and made the best of her way by a short cut back to Highbury.


id: austen-emma_041-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_041-1815
date: 1815
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  Why, to own the truth, cried Miss Bates, who had been trying in vain to be heard the last two minutes, if I must speak on this subject, there is no denying that Mr. Frank Churchill might have--I do not mean to say that he did not dream it--I am sure I have sometimes the oddest dreams in the world--but if I am questioned about it, I must acknowledge that there was such an idea last spring; for Mrs. Perry herself mentioned it to my mother, and the Coles knew of it as well as ourselves--but it was quite a secret, known to nobody else, and only thought of about three days. My dear Emma, said he at last, with earnest kindness, do you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between the gentleman and lady we have been speaking of? Between Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax?


id: austen-emma_040-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_040-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  Should she proceed no farther?--should she let it pass, and seem to suspect nothing?--Perhaps Harriet might think her cold or angry if she did; or perhaps if she were totally silent, it might only drive Harriet into asking her to hear too much; and against any thing like such an unreserve as had been, such an open and frequent discussion of hopes and chances, she was perfectly resolved.--She believed it would be wiser for her to say and know at once, all that she meant to say and know. After another short hesitation, I hope it does not proceed from--I hope it is not in compliment to Mr. Elton? Mr. Elton indeed! cried Harriet indignantly.--Oh!


id: austen-emma_045-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_045-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  In half an hour the arrowroot was returned, with a thousand thanks from Miss Bates, but dear Jane would not be satisfied without its being sent back; it was a thing she could not take--and, moreover, she insisted on her saying, that she was not at all in want of any thing. When Emma afterwards heard that Jane Fairfax had been seen wandering about the meadows, at some distance from Highbury, on the afternoon of the very day on which she had, under the plea of being unequal to any exercise, so peremptorily refused to go out with her in the carriage, she could have no doubt--putting every thing together--that Jane was resolved to receive no kindness from her. In the hope of diverting her father's thoughts from the disagreeableness of Mr. Knightley's going to London; and going so suddenly; and going on horseback, which she knew would be all very bad; Emma communicated her news of Jane Fairfax, and her dependence on the effect was justified; it supplied a very useful check,--interested, without disturbing him.


id: austen-emma_044-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_044-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  She would not let Jane say, 'No;' for when Jane first heard of it, (it was the day before yesterday, the very morning we were at Donwell,) when Jane first heard of it, she was quite decided against accepting the offer, and for the reasons you mention; exactly as you say, she had made up her mind to close with nothing till Colonel Campbell's return, and nothing should induce her to enter into any engagement at present--and so she told Mrs. Elton over and over again--and I am sure I had no more idea that she would change her mind!--but that good Mrs. Elton, whose judgment never fails her, saw farther than I did. I had not the least idea!--Jane took Mrs. Elton aside, and told her at once, that upon thinking over the advantages of Mrs. Smallridge's situation, she had come to the resolution of accepting it.--I did not know a word of it till it was all settled.


id: austen-emma_043-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_043-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  It might be a very indifferent piece of wit, but Emma found a great deal to laugh at and enjoy in it--and so did Frank and Harriet.--It did not seem to touch the rest of the party equally; some looked very stupid about it, and Mr. Knightley gravely said, This explains the sort of clever thing that is wanted, and Mr. Weston has done very well for himself; but he must have knocked up every body else. The Eltons walked together; Mr. Knightley took charge of Miss Bates and Jane; and Emma and Harriet belonged to Frank Churchill.


id: austen-emma_051-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_051-1815
date: 1815
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flesch: 73
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summary:
  Mr. Knightley himself would be doing nothing to assist the cure;--not like Mr. Elton. She thought so well of the letter, that when Mr. Knightley came again, she desired him to read it.


id: austen-emma_046-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_046-1815
date: 1815
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flesch: 77
cache: cache/austen-emma_046-1815.txt
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summary:
  So unlike what a man should be!--None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that disdain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. Nay, dear Emma, now I must take his part; for though he has been wrong in this instance, I have known him long enough to answer for his having many, very many, good qualities; and-- Good God! His sufferings, replied Emma dryly, do not appear to have done him much harm.


id: austen-emma_048-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_048-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  Mrs. Weston had set off to pay the visit in a good deal of agitation herself; and in the first place had wished not to go at all at present, to be allowed merely to write to Miss Fairfax instead, and to defer this ceremonious call till a little time had passed, and Mr. Churchill could be reconciled to the engagement's becoming known; as, considering every thing, she thought such a visit could not be paid without leading to reports:--but Mr. Weston had thought differently; he was extremely anxious to shew his approbation to Miss Fairfax and her family, and did not conceive that any suspicion could be excited by it; or if it were, that it would be of any consequence; for such things, he observed, always got about. Mr. Weston had accompanied her to Mrs. Bates's, and gone through his share of this essential attention most handsomely; but she having then induced Miss Fairfax to join her in an airing, was now returned with much more to say, and much more to say with satisfaction, than a quarter of an hour spent in Mrs. Bates's parlour, with all the encumbrance of awkward feelings, could have afforded.


id: austen-emma_049-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_049-1815
date: 1815
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  For a moment or two nothing was said, and she was unsuspicious of having excited any particular interest, till she found her arm drawn within his, and pressed against his heart, and heard him thus saying, in a tone of great sensibility, speaking low, Time, my dearest Emma, time will heal the wound.--Your own excellent sense--your exertions for your father's sake--I know you will not allow yourself--. After waiting a moment, as if to be sure she intended to say no more, he replied, If you mean Miss Fairfax and Frank Churchill, I have heard that already. How is it possible? cried Emma, turning her glowing cheeks towards him; for, while she spoke, it occurred to her that he might have called at Mrs. Goddard's in his way.


id: austen-emma_038-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_038-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  Mrs. Elton turned to Mrs. Weston. Miss Bates and Miss Fairfax, escorted by the two gentlemen, walked into the room; and Mrs. Elton seemed to think it as much her duty as Mrs. Weston's to receive them.


id: austen-emma_050-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_050-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  While he lived, it must be only an engagement; but she flattered herself, that if divested of the danger of drawing her away, it might become an increase of comfort to him.--How to do her best by Harriet, was of more difficult decision;--how to spare her from any unnecessary pain; how to make her any possible atonement; how to appear least her enemy?--On these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great--and her mind had to pass again and again through every bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surrounded it.--She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and--indulging in one scheme more--nearly resolve, that it might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Brunswick Square.--Isabella had been pleased with Harriet; and a few weeks spent in London must give her some amusement.--She did not think it in Harriet's nature to escape being benefited by novelty and variety, by the streets, the shops, and the children.--At any rate, it would be a proof of attention and kindness in herself, from whom every thing was due; a separation for the present; an averting of the evil day, when they must all be together again. With the greatest respect, and the warmest friendship, do I mention Miss Woodhouse; my father perhaps will think I ought to add, with the deepest humiliation.--A few words which dropped from him yesterday spoke his opinion, and some censure I acknowledge myself liable to.--My behaviour to Miss Woodhouse indicated, I believe, more than it ought.--In order to assist a concealment so essential to me, I was led on to make more than an allowable use of the sort of intimacy into which we were immediately thrown.--I cannot deny that Miss Woodhouse was my ostensible object--but I am sure you will believe the declaration, that had I not been convinced of her indifference, I would not have been induced by any selfish views to go on.--Amiable and delightful as Miss Woodhouse is, she never gave me the idea of a young woman likely to be attached; and that she was perfectly free from any tendency to being attached to me, was as much my conviction as my wish.--She received my attentions with an easy, friendly, goodhumoured playfulness, which exactly suited me.


id: austen-emma_053-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_053-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest.--To Emma's entreaties and assurances succeeded Mr. Knightley's, whose fond praise of her gave the subject even a kind of welcome; and he was soon used to be talked to by each, on every fair occasion.--They had all the assistance which Isabella could give, by letters of the strongest approbation; and Mrs. Weston was ready, on the first meeting, to consider the subject in the most serviceable light--first, as a settled, and, secondly, as a good one--well aware of the nearly equal importance of the two recommendations to Mr. Woodhouse's mind.--It was agreed upon, as what was to be; and every body by whom he was used to be guided assuring him that it would be for his happiness; and having some feelings himself which almost admitted it, he began to think that some time or other--in another year or two, perhaps--it might not be so very bad if the marriage did take place. And who but Mr. Knightley could know and bear with Mr. Woodhouse, so as to make such an arrangement desirable!--The difficulty of disposing of poor Mr. Woodhouse had been always felt in her husband's plans and her own, for a marriage between Frank and Emma.


id: austen-emma_047-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_047-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge! Mr. Knightley and Harriet Smith!--It was a union to distance every wonder of the kind.--The attachment of Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax became commonplace, threadbare, stale in the comparison, exciting no surprize, presenting no disparity, affording nothing to be said or thought.--Mr.


id: austen-emma_055-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_055-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable maintenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment.--Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for!--It was likely to be as untainted, perhaps, as the blood of many a gentleman: but what a connexion had she been preparing for Mr. Knightley--or for the Churchills--or even for Mr. Elton!--The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed. The result of this distress was, that, with a much more voluntary, cheerful consent than his daughter had ever presumed to hope for at the moment, she was able to fix her wedding-day--and Mr. Elton was called on, within a month from the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin, to join the hands of Mr. Knightley and Miss Woodhouse.


id: austen-emma_052-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_052-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  In all probability she was at this very time waited for there; and Mr. Knightley might be preserved from sinking deeper in aggression towards Mr. Elton, if not towards William Larkins. Emma would not have smiled for the world, and only said, Is Mr. Elton gone on foot to Donwell?--He will have a hot walk.


id: austen-emma_042-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_042-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  These were pleasant feelings, and she walked about and indulged them till it was necessary to do as the others did, and collect round the strawberry-beds.--The whole party were assembled, excepting Frank Churchill, who was expected every moment from Richmond; and Mrs. Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very ready to lead the way in gathering, accepting, or talking--strawberries, and only strawberries, could now be thought or spoken of.--The best fruit in England--every body's favourite--always wholesome.--These the finest beds and finest sorts.--Delightful to gather for one's self--the only way of really enjoying them.--Morning decidedly the best time--never tired--every sort good--hautboy infinitely superior--no comparison--the others hardly eatable--hautboys very scarce--Chili preferred--white wood finest flavour of all--price of strawberries in London--abundance about Bristol--Maple Grove--cultivation--beds when to be renewed--gardeners thinking exactly different--no general rule--gardeners never to be put out of their way--delicious fruit--only too rich to be eaten much of--inferior to cherries--currants more refreshing--only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping--glaring sun--tired to death--could bear it no longer--must go and sit in the shade. Such, for half an hour, was the conversation--interrupted only once by Mrs. Weston, who came out, in her solicitude after her son-in-law, to inquire if he were come--and she was a little uneasy.--She had some fears of his horse. In the daily interchange of news, they must be again restricted to the other topics with which for a while the Sucklings' coming had been united, such as the last accounts of Mrs. Churchill, whose health seemed every day to supply a different report, and the situation of Mrs. Weston, whose happiness it was to be hoped might eventually be as much increased by the arrival of a child, as that of all her neighbours was by the approach of it.


id: austen-emma_054-1815
author: Jane Austen
title: austen-emma_054-1815
date: 1815
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summary:
  It is so, indeed, continued Mr. Knightley; I have it from Robert Martin himself. The contrast between the countenance and air of Mr. Knightley and Robert Martin was, at this moment, so strong to Emma's feelings, and so strong was the recollection of all that had so recently passed on Harriet's side, so fresh the sound of those words, spoken with such emphasis, No, I hope I know better than to think of Robert Martin, that she was really expecting the intelligence to prove, in some measure, premature.


