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1"We think so very differently on this point, Mr. Knightley, that there can be no use in canvassing it. We shall only be
2making each other more angry. But as to my letting her marry Robert Martin, it is impossible; she has refused him, and
3so decidedly, I think, as must prevent any second application. She must abide by the evil of having refused him,
4whatever it may be; and as to the refusal itself, I will not pretend to say that I might not influence her a little; but
5I assure you there was very little for me or for any body to do. His appearance is so much against him, and his manner
6so bad, that if she ever were disposed to favour him, she is not now. I can imagine, that before she had seen any body
7superior, she might tolerate him. He was the brother of her friends, and he took pains to please her; and altogether,
8having seen nobody better (that must have been his great assistant) she might not, while she was at Abbey-Mill, find him
9disagreeable. But the case is altered now. She knows now what gentlemen are; and nothing but a gentleman in education
10and manner has any chance with Harriet." "Nonsense, errant nonsense, as ever was talked!" cried Mr. Knightley.--"Robert
11Martin's manners have sense, sincerity, and good-humour to recommend them; and his mind has more true gentility than
12Harriet Smith could understand." Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling
13uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a
14better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect
15for his judgment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just
16opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable. Some minutes passed in this unpleasant silence, with only one
17attempt on Emma's side to talk of the weather, but he made no answer. He was thinking. The result of his thoughts
18appeared at last in these words. "Robert Martin has no great loss--if he can but think so; and I hope it will not be
19long before he does. Your views for Harriet are best known to yourself; but as you make no secret of your love of
20match-making, it is fair to suppose that views, and plans, and projects you have;--and as a friend I shall just hint to
21you that if Elton is the man, I think it will be all labour in vain." Emma laughed and disclaimed. He continued, "Depend
22upon it, Elton will not do. Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all
23likely to make an imprudent match. He knows the value of a good income as well as any body. Elton may talk
24sentimentally, but he will act rationally. He is as well acquainted with his own claims, as you can be with Harriet's.
25He knows that he is a very handsome young man, and a great favourite wherever he goes; and from his general way of
26talking in unreserved moments, when there are only men present, I am convinced that he does not mean to throw himself
27away. I have heard him speak with great animation of a large family of young ladies that his sisters are intimate with,
28who have all twenty thousand pounds apiece." "I am very much obliged to you," said Emma, laughing again. "If I had set
29my heart on Mr. Elton's marrying Harriet, it would have been very kind to open my eyes; but at present I only want to
30keep Harriet to myself. I have done with match-making indeed. I could never hope to equal my own doings at Randalls. I
31shall leave off while I am well." "Good morning to you,"--said he, rising and walking off abruptly. He was very much
32vexed. He felt the disappointment of the young man, and was mortified to have been the means of promoting it, by the
33sanction he had given; and the part which he was persuaded Emma had taken in the affair, was provoking him exceedingly.
34Emma remained in a state of vexation too; but there was more indistinctness in the causes of her's, than in his. She did
35not always feel so absolutely satisfied with herself, so entirely convinced that her opinions were right and her
36adversary's wrong, as Mr. Knightley. He walked off in more complete self-approbation than he left for her. She was not
37so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives.
38Harriet's staying away so long was beginning to make her uneasy. The possibility of the young man's coming to Mrs.
39Goddard's that morning, and meeting with Harriet and pleading his own cause, gave alarming ideas. The dread of such a
40failure after all became the prominent uneasiness; and when Harriet appeared, and in very good spirits, and without
41having any such reason to give for her long absence, she felt a satisfaction which settled her with her own mind, and
42convinced her, that let Mr. Knightley think or say what he would, she had done nothing which woman's friendship and
43woman's feelings would not justify. He had frightened her a little about Mr. Elton; but when she considered that Mr.
44Knightley could not have observed him as she had done, neither with the interest, nor (she must be allowed to tell
45herself, in spite of Mr. Knightley's pretensions) with the skill of such an observer on such a question as herself, that
46he had spoken it hastily and in anger, she was able to believe, that he had rather said what he wished resentfully to be
47true, than what he knew any thing about. He certainly might have heard Mr. Elton speak with more unreserve than she had
48ever done, and Mr. Elton might not be of an imprudent, inconsiderate disposition as to money matters; he might naturally
49be rather attentive than otherwise to them; but then, Mr. Knightley did not make due allowance for the influence of a
50strong passion at war with all interested motives. Mr. Knightley saw no such passion, and of course thought nothing of
51its effects; but she saw too much of it to feel a doubt of its overcoming any hesitations that a reasonable prudence
52might originally suggest; and more than a reasonable, becoming degree of prudence, she was very sure did not belong to
53Mr. Elton. Harriet's cheerful look and manner established hers: she came back, not to think of Mr. Martin, but to talk
54of Mr. Elton. Miss Nash had been telling her something, which she repeated immediately with great delight. Mr. Perry had
55been to Mrs. Goddard's to attend a sick child, and Miss Nash had seen him, and he had told Miss Nash, that as he was
56coming back yesterday from Clayton Park, he had met Mr. Elton, and found to his great surprize, that Mr. Elton was
57actually on his road to London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he
58had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had remonstrated with him about it, and told him how shabby it was in
59him, their best player, to absent himself, and tried very much to persuade him to put off his journey only one day; but
60it would not do; Mr. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that he was going
61on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world; and something about a very enviable commission,
62and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious. Mr. Perry could not quite understand him, but he was very sure
63there must be a lady in the case, and he told him so; and Mr. Elton only looked very conscious and smiling, and rode off
64in great spirits. Miss Nash had told her all this, and had talked a great deal more about Mr. Elton; and said, looking
65so very significantly at her, "that she did not pretend to understand what his business might be, but she only knew that
66any woman whom Mr. Elton could prefer, she should think the luckiest woman in the world; for, beyond a doubt, Mr. Elton
67had not his equal for beauty or agreeableness."
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