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1"Yes, certainly it does. He has had great faults, faults of inconsideration and thoughtlessness; and I am very much of
2his opinion in thinking him likely to be happier than he deserves: but still as he is, beyond a doubt, really attached
3to Miss Fairfax, and will soon, it may be hoped, have the advantage of being constantly with her, I am very ready to
4believe his character will improve, and acquire from hers the steadiness and delicacy of principle that it wants. And
5now, let me talk to you of something else. I have another person's interest at present so much at heart, that I cannot
6think any longer about Frank Churchill. Ever since I left you this morning, Emma, my mind has been hard at work on one
7subject." The subject followed; it was in plain, unaffected, gentlemanlike English, such as Mr. Knightley used even to
8the woman he was in love with, how to be able to ask her to marry him, without attacking the happiness of her father.
9Emma's answer was ready at the first word. "While her dear father lived, any change of condition must be impossible for
10her. She could never quit him." Part only of this answer, however, was admitted. The impossibility of her quitting her
11father, Mr. Knightley felt as strongly as herself; but the inadmissibility of any other change, he could not agree to.
12He had been thinking it over most deeply, most intently; he had at first hoped to induce Mr. Woodhouse to remove with
13her to Donwell; he had wanted to believe it feasible, but his knowledge of Mr. Woodhouse would not suffer him to deceive
14himself long; and now he confessed his persuasion, that such a transplantation would be a risk of her father's comfort,
15perhaps even of his life, which must not be hazarded. Mr. Woodhouse taken from Hartfield!--No, he felt that it ought not
16to be attempted. But the plan which had arisen on the sacrifice of this, he trusted his dearest Emma would not find in
17any respect objectionable; it was, that he should be received at Hartfield; that so long as her father's happiness--in
18other words, his life--required Hartfield to continue her home, it should be his likewise. Of their all removing to
19Donwell, Emma had already had her own passing thoughts. Like him, she had tried the scheme and rejected it; but such an
20alternative as this had not occurred to her. She was sensible of all the affection it evinced. She felt that, in
21quitting Donwell, he must be sacrificing a great deal of independence of hours and habits; that in living constantly
22with her father, and in no house of his own, there would be much, very much, to be borne with. She promised to think of
23it, and advised him to think of it more; but he was fully convinced, that no reflection could alter his wishes or his
24opinion on the subject. He had given it, he could assure her, very long and calm consideration; he had been walking away
25from William Larkins the whole morning, to have his thoughts to himself. "Ah! there is one difficulty unprovided for,"
26cried Emma. "I am sure William Larkins will not like it. You must get his consent before you ask mine." She promised,
27however, to think of it; and pretty nearly promised, moreover, to think of it, with the intention of finding it a very
28good scheme. It is remarkable, that Emma, in the many, very many, points of view in which she was now beginning to
29consider Donwell Abbey, was never struck with any sense of injury to her nephew Henry, whose rights as heir-expectant
30had formerly been so tenaciously regarded. Think she must of the possible difference to the poor little boy; and yet she
31only gave herself a saucy conscious smile about it, and found amusement in detecting the real cause of that violent
32dislike of Mr. Knightley's marrying Jane Fairfax, or any body else, which at the time she had wholly imputed to the
33amiable solicitude of the sister and the aunt. This proposal of his, this plan of marrying and continuing at
34Hartfield--the more she contemplated it, the more pleasing it became. His evils seemed to lessen, her own advantages to
35increase, their mutual good to outweigh every drawback. Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and
36cheerlessness before her!--Such a partner in all those duties and cares to which time must be giving increase of
37melancholy! She would have been too happy but for poor Harriet; but every blessing of her own seemed to involve and
38advance the sufferings of her friend, who must now be even excluded from Hartfield. The delightful family party which
39Emma was securing for herself, poor Harriet must, in mere charitable caution, be kept at a distance from. She would be a
40loser in every way. Emma could not deplore her future absence as any deduction from her own enjoyment. In such a party,
41Harriet would be rather a dead weight than otherwise; but for the poor girl herself, it seemed a peculiarly cruel
42necessity that was to be placing her in such a state of unmerited punishment. In time, of course, Mr. Knightley would be
43forgotten, that is, supplanted; but this could not be expected to happen very early. Mr. Knightley himself would be
44doing nothing to assist the cure;--not like Mr. Elton. Mr. Knightley, always so kind, so feeling, so truly considerate
45for every body, would never deserve to be less worshipped than now; and it really was too much to hope even of Harriet,
46that she could be in love with more than three men in one year.
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