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1"Only four-and-twenty. That is too young to settle. His mother is perfectly right not to be in a hurry. They seem very
2comfortable as they are, and if she were to take any pains to marry him, she would probably repent it. Six years hence,
3if 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
4desirable." "Six years hence! Dear Miss Woodhouse, he would be thirty years old!" "Well, and that is as early as most
5men can afford to marry, who are not born to an independence. Mr. Martin, I imagine, has his fortune entirely to
6make--cannot be at all beforehand with the world. Whatever money he might come into when his father died, whatever his
7share of the family property, it is, I dare say, all afloat, all employed in his stock, and so forth; and though, with
8diligence and good luck, he may be rich in time, it is next to impossible that he should have realised any thing yet."
9"To be sure, so it is. But they live very comfortably. They have no indoors man, else they do not want for any thing;
10and Mrs. Martin talks of taking a boy another year." "I wish you may not get into a scrape, Harriet, whenever he does
11marry;--I mean, as to being acquainted with his wife--for though his sisters, from a superior education, are not to be
12altogether objected to, it does not follow that he might marry any body at all fit for you to notice. The misfortune of
13your birth ought to make you particularly careful as to your associates. There can be no doubt of your being a
14gentleman's daughter, and you must support your claim to that station by every thing within your own power, or there
15will be plenty of people who would take pleasure in degrading you." "Yes, to be sure, I suppose there are. But while I
16visit at Hartfield, and you are so kind to me, Miss Woodhouse, I am not afraid of what any body can do." "You understand
17the force of influence pretty well, Harriet; but I would have you so firmly established in good society, as to be
18independent even of Hartfield and Miss Woodhouse. I want to see you permanently well connected, and to that end it will
19be advisable to have as few odd acquaintance as may be; and, therefore, I say that if you should still be in this
20country when Mr. Martin marries, I wish you may not be drawn in by your intimacy with the sisters, to be acquainted with
21the wife, who will probably be some mere farmer's daughter, without education." "To be sure. Yes. Not that I think Mr.
22Martin would ever marry any body but what had had some education--and been very well brought up. However, I do not mean
23to set up my opinion against yours--and I am sure I shall not wish for the acquaintance of his wife. I shall always have
24a great regard for the Miss Martins, especially Elizabeth, and should be very sorry to give them up, for they are quite
25as well educated as me. But if he marries a very ignorant, vulgar woman, certainly I had better not visit her, if I can
26help it." Emma watched her through the fluctuations of this speech, and saw no alarming symptoms of love. The young man
27had been the first admirer, but she trusted there was no other hold, and that there would be no serious difficulty, on
28Harriet's side, to oppose any friendly arrangement of her own. They met Mr. Martin the very next day, as they were
29walking on the Donwell road. He was on foot, and after looking very respectfully at her, looked with most unfeigned
30satisfaction at her companion. Emma was not sorry to have such an opportunity of survey; and walking a few yards
31forward, while they talked together, soon made her quick eye sufficiently acquainted with Mr. Robert Martin. His
32appearance was very neat, and he looked like a sensible young man, but his person had no other advantage; and when he
33came to be contrasted with gentlemen, she thought he must lose all the ground he had gained in Harriet's inclination.
34Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father's gentleness with admiration as well as
35wonder. Mr. Martin looked as if he did not know what manner was. They remained but a few minutes together, as Miss
36Woodhouse must not be kept waiting; and Harriet then came running to her with a smiling face, and in a flutter of
37spirits, which Miss Woodhouse hoped very soon to compose. "Only think of our happening to meet him!--How very odd! It
38was quite a chance, he said, that he had not gone round by Randalls. He did not think we ever walked this road. He
39thought we walked towards Randalls most days. He has not been able to get the Romance of the Forest yet. He was so busy
40the last time he was at Kingston that he quite forgot it, but he goes again to-morrow. So very odd we should happen to
41meet! Well, Miss Woodhouse, is he like what you expected? What do you think of him? Do you think him so very plain?" "He
42is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no
43right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without
44air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility." "To be sure," said Harriet, in a mortified voice,
45"he is not so genteel as real gentlemen." "I think, Harriet, since your acquaintance with us, you have been repeatedly
46in the company of some such very real gentlemen, that you must yourself be struck with the difference in Mr. Martin. At
47Hartfield, you have had very good specimens of well educated, well bred men. I should be surprized if, after seeing
48them, you could be in company with Mr. Martin again without perceiving him to be a very inferior creature--and rather
49wondering at yourself for having ever thought him at all agreeable before. Do not you begin to feel that now? Were not
50you struck? I am sure you must have been struck by his awkward look and abrupt manner, and the uncouthness of a voice
51which I heard to be wholly unmodulated as I stood here." "Certainly, he is not like Mr. Knightley. He has not such a
52fine air and way of walking as Mr. Knightley. I see the difference plain enough. But Mr. Knightley is so very fine a
53man!" "Mr. Knightley's air is so remarkably good that it is not fair to compare Mr. Martin with him. You might not see
54one in a hundred with gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley. But he is not the only gentleman you have been
55lately used to. What say you to Mr. Weston and Mr. Elton? Compare Mr. Martin with either of them. Compare their manner
56of carrying themselves; of walking; of speaking; of being silent. You must see the difference." "Oh yes!--there is a
57great difference. But Mr. Weston is almost an old man. Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty." "Which makes his
58good manners the more valuable. The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should
59not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in
60youth is detestable in later age. Mr. Martin is now awkward and abrupt; what will he be at Mr. Weston's time of life?"
61"There is no saying, indeed," replied Harriet rather solemnly. "But there may be pretty good guessing. He will be a
62completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss." "Will
63he, indeed? That will be very bad." "How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of
64his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended. He was a great deal too full of the market to think of any thing
65else--which is just as it should be, for a thriving man. What has he to do with books? And I have no doubt that he will
66thrive, and be a very rich man in time--and his being illiterate and coarse need not disturb us." "I wonder he did not
67remember the book"--was all Harriet's answer, and spoken with a degree of grave displeasure which Emma thought might be
68safely left to itself. She, therefore, said no more for some time. Her next beginning was,
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