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1"I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston," said Mr. Knightley, "of this great intimacy between Emma and
2Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing." "A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?--why so?" "I think they
3will neither of them do the other any good." "You surprize me! Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a
4new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good. I have been seeing their intimacy with the greatest
5pleasure. How very differently we feel!--Not think they will do each other any good! This will certainly be the
6beginning of one of our quarrels about Emma, Mr. Knightley." "Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel with
7you, knowing Weston to be out, and that you must still fight your own battle." "Mr. Weston would undoubtedly support me,
8if he were here, for he thinks exactly as I do on the subject. We were speaking of it only yesterday, and agreeing how
9fortunate it was for Emma, that there should be such a girl in Highbury for her to associate with. Mr. Knightley, I
10shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case. You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value
11of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own
12sex, after being used to it all her life. I can imagine your objection to Harriet Smith. She is not the superior young
13woman which Emma's friend ought to be. But on the other hand, as Emma wants to see her better informed, it will be an
14inducement to her to read more herself. They will read together. She means it, I know." "Emma has been meaning to read
15more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing-up at various times of books
16that she meant to read regularly through--and very good lists they were--very well chosen, and very neatly
17arranged--sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen--I
18remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made
19out a very good list now. But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. She will never submit
20to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Where Miss Taylor
21failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do nothing.--You never could persuade her to read half
22so much as you wished.--You know you could not." "I dare say," replied Mrs. Weston, smiling, "that I thought so
23then;--but since we have parted, I can never remember Emma's omitting to do any thing I wished." "There is hardly any
24desiring to refresh such a memory as that,"--said Mr. Knightley, feelingly; and for a moment or two he had done. "But
25I," he soon added, "who have had no such charm thrown over my senses, must still see, hear, and remember. Emma is
26spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions
27which puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident. And ever since she
28was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all. In her mother she lost the only person able to cope with
29her. She inherits her mother's talents, and must have been under subjection to her." "I should have been sorry, Mr.
30Knightley, to be dependent on your recommendation, had I quitted Mr. Woodhouse's family and wanted another situation; I
31do not think you would have spoken a good word for me to any body. I am sure you always thought me unfit for the office
32I held." "Yes," said he, smiling. "You are better placed here; very fit for a wife, but not at all for a governess. But
33you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at Hartfield. You might not give Emma such a
34complete education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the
35very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid; and if Weston had asked me to
36recommend him a wife, I should certainly have named Miss Taylor." "Thank you. There will be very little merit in making
37a good wife to such a man as Mr. Weston." "Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with
38every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne. We will not despair, however. Weston may grow cross from
39the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him." "I hope not that.--It is not likely. No, Mr. Knightley, do not
40foretell vexation from that quarter." "Not I, indeed. I only name possibilities. I do not pretend to Emma's genius for
41foretelling and guessing. I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston in merit, and a Churchill in
42fortune.--But Harriet Smith--I have not half done about Harriet Smith. I think her the very worst sort of companion that
43Emma could possibly have. She knows nothing herself, and looks upon Emma as knowing every thing. She is a flatterer in
44all her ways; and so much the worse, because undesigned. Her ignorance is hourly flattery. How can Emma imagine she has
45any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority? And as for Harriet, I will
46venture to say that she cannot gain by the acquaintance. Hartfield will only put her out of conceit with all the other
47places she belongs to. She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and
48circumstances have placed her home. I am much mistaken if Emma's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to
49make a girl adapt herself rationally to the varieties of her situation in life.--They only give a little polish." "I
50either depend more upon Emma's good sense than you do, or am more anxious for her present comfort; for I cannot lament
51the acquaintance. How well she looked last night!" "Oh! you would rather talk of her person than her mind, would you?
52Very well; I shall not attempt to deny Emma's being pretty." "Pretty! say beautiful rather. Can you imagine any thing
53nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether--face and figure?" "I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I
54have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers. But I am a partial old friend." "Such an eye!--the true
55hazle eye--and so brilliant! regular features, open countenance, with a complexion! oh! what a bloom of full health, and
56such a pretty height and size; such a firm and upright figure! There is health, not merely in her bloom, but in her air,
57her head, her glance. One hears sometimes of a child being 'the picture of health;' now, Emma always gives me the idea
58of being the complete picture of grown-up health. She is loveliness itself. Mr. Knightley, is not she?" "I have not a
59fault to find with her person," he replied. "I think her all you describe. I love to look at her; and I will add this
60praise, that I do not think her personally vain. Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied
61with it; her vanity lies another way. Mrs. Weston, I am not to be talked out of my dislike of Harriet Smith, or my dread
62of its doing them both harm." "And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm.
63With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder
64sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she
65will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times." "Very well; I will not plague
66you any more. Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings John and Isabella. John
67loves Emma with a reasonable and therefore not a blind affection, and Isabella always thinks as he does; except when he
68is not quite frightened enough about the children. I am sure of having their opinions with me."
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