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1"Not Harriet's equal!" exclaimed Mr. Knightley loudly and warmly; and with calmer asperity, added, a few moments
2afterwards, "No, he is not her equal indeed, for he is as much her superior in sense as in situation. Emma, your
3infatuation about that girl blinds you. What are Harriet Smith's claims, either of birth, nature or education, to any
4connexion higher than Robert Martin? She is the natural daughter of nobody knows whom, with probably no settled
5provision at all, and certainly no respectable relations. She is known only as parlour-boarder at a common school. She
6is not a sensible girl, nor a girl of any information. She has been taught nothing useful, and is too young and too
7simple to have acquired any thing herself. At her age she can have no experience, and with her little wit, is not very
8likely ever to have any that can avail her. She is pretty, and she is good tempered, and that is all. My only scruple in
9advising the match was on his account, as being beneath his deserts, and a bad connexion for him. I felt that, as to
10fortune, in all probability he might do much better; and that as to a rational companion or useful helpmate, he could
11not do worse. But I could not reason so to a man in love, and was willing to trust to there being no harm in her, to her
12having that sort of disposition, which, in good hands, like his, might be easily led aright and turn out very well. The
13advantage of the match I felt to be all on her side; and had not the smallest doubt (nor have I now) that there would be
14a general cry-out upon her extreme good luck. Even your satisfaction I made sure of. It crossed my mind immediately that
15you would not regret your friend's leaving Highbury, for the sake of her being settled so well. I remember saying to
16myself, 'Even Emma, with all her partiality for Harriet, will think this a good match.'" "I cannot help wondering at
17your knowing so little of Emma as to say any such thing. What! think a farmer, (and with all his sense and all his merit
18Mr. Martin is nothing more,) a good match for my intimate friend! Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of
19marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own! I wonder you should think it possible for me to
20have such feelings. I assure you mine are very different. I must think your statement by no means fair. You are not just
21to Harriet's claims. They would be estimated very differently by others as well as myself; Mr. Martin may be the richest
22of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society.--The sphere in which she moves is much above
23his.--It would be a degradation." "A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable,
24intelligent gentleman-farmer!" "As to the circumstances of her birth, though in a legal sense she may be called Nobody,
25it will not hold in common sense. She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those
26with whom she is brought up.--There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentleman--and a gentleman of
27fortune.--Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort.--That she is a
28gentleman's daughter, is indubitable to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will
29deny.--She is superior to Mr. Robert Martin." "Whoever might be her parents," said Mr. Knightley, "whoever may have had
30the charge of her, it does not appear to have been any part of their plan to introduce her into what you would call good
31society. After receiving a very indifferent education she is left in Mrs. Goddard's hands to shift as she can;--to move,
32in short, in Mrs. Goddard's line, to have Mrs. Goddard's acquaintance. Her friends evidently thought this good enough
33for her; and it was good enough. She desired nothing better herself. Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind
34had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it. She was as happy as possible with the Martins in the
35summer. She had no sense of superiority then. If she has it now, you have given it. You have been no friend to Harriet
36Smith, Emma. Robert Martin would never have proceeded so far, if he had not felt persuaded of her not being disinclined
37to him. I know him well. He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion. And as
38to conceit, he is the farthest from it of any man I know. Depend upon it he had encouragement." It was most convenient
39to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again.
40"You are a very warm friend to Mr. Martin; but, as I said before, are unjust to Harriet. Harriet's claims to marry well
41are not so contemptible as you represent them. She is not a clever girl, but she has better sense than you are aware of,
42and does not deserve to have her understanding spoken of so slightingly. Waiving that point, however, and supposing her
43to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they
44are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so
45by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty
46than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl,
47with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from
48among many, consequently a claim to be nice. Her good-nature, too, is not so very slight a claim, comprehending, as it
49does, real, thorough sweetness of temper and manner, a very humble opinion of herself, and a great readiness to be
50pleased with other people. I am very much mistaken if your sex in general would not think such beauty, and such temper,
51the highest claims a woman could possess." "Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost
52enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do." "To be sure!" cried she playfully.
53"I know that is the feeling of you all. I know that such a girl as Harriet is exactly what every man delights in--what
54at once bewitches his senses and satisfies his judgment. Oh! Harriet may pick and chuse. Were you, yourself, ever to
55marry, she is the very woman for you. And is she, at seventeen, just entering into life, just beginning to be known, to
56be wondered at because she does not accept the first offer she receives? No--pray let her have time to look about her."
57"I have always thought it a very foolish intimacy," said Mr. Knightley presently, "though I have kept my thoughts to
58myself; but I now perceive that it will be a very unfortunate one for Harriet. You will puff her up with such ideas of
59her own beauty, and of what she has a claim to, that, in a little while, nobody within her reach will be good enough for
60her. Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Nothing so easy as for a young lady to raise her
61expectations too high. Miss Harriet Smith may not find offers of marriage flow in so fast, though she is a very pretty
62girl. Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives. Men of family would not be very fond of
63connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity--and most prudent men would be afraid of the inconvenience and
64disgrace they might be involved in, when the mystery of her parentage came to be revealed. Let her marry Robert Martin,
65and she is safe, respectable, and happy for ever; but if you encourage her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her to
66be satisfied with nothing less than a man of consequence and large fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs.
67Goddard's all the rest of her life--or, at least, (for Harriet Smith is a girl who will marry somebody or other,) till
68she grow desperate, and is glad to catch at the old writing-master's son."
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