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1"We have been calling at Randalls," said she, "and found them both at home; and very pleasant people they seem to be. I
2like them extremely. Mr. Weston seems an excellent creature--quite a first-rate favourite with me already, I assure you.
3And she appears so truly good--there is something so motherly and kind-hearted about her, that it wins upon one
4directly. She was your governess, I think?" Emma was almost too much astonished to answer; but Mrs. Elton hardly waited
5for the affirmative before she went on. "Having understood as much, I was rather astonished to find her so very
6lady-like! But she is really quite the gentlewoman." "Mrs. Weston's manners," said Emma, "were always particularly good.
7Their propriety, simplicity, and elegance, would make them the safest model for any young woman." "And who do you think
8came in while we were there?" Emma was quite at a loss. The tone implied some old acquaintance--and how could she
9possibly guess? "Knightley!" continued Mrs. Elton; "Knightley himself!--Was not it lucky?--for, not being within when he
10called the other day, I had never seen him before; and of course, as so particular a friend of Mr. E.'s, I had a great
11curiosity. 'My friend Knightley' had been so often mentioned, that I was really impatient to see him; and I must do my
12cara sposo the justice to say that he need not be ashamed of his friend. Knightley is quite the gentleman. I like him
13very much. Decidedly, I think, a very gentleman-like man." Happily, it was now time to be gone. They were off; and Emma
14could breathe. "Insufferable woman!" was her immediate exclamation. "Worse than I had supposed. Absolutely insufferable!
15Knightley!--I could not have believed it. Knightley!--never seen him in her life before, and call him Knightley!--and
16discover that he is a gentleman! A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her caro sposo, and her resources,
17and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery. Actually to discover that Mr. Knightley is a gentleman! I
18doubt whether he will return the compliment, and discover her to be a lady. I could not have believed it! And to propose
19that she and I should unite to form a musical club! One would fancy we were bosom friends! And Mrs. Weston!--Astonished
20that the person who had brought me up should be a gentlewoman! Worse and worse. I never met with her equal. Much beyond
21my hopes. Harriet is disgraced by any comparison. Oh! what would Frank Churchill say to her, if he were here? How angry
22and how diverted he would be! Ah! there I am--thinking of him directly. Always the first person to be thought of! How I
23catch myself out! Frank Churchill comes as regularly into my mind!"-- All this ran so glibly through her thoughts, that
24by the time her father had arranged himself, after the bustle of the Eltons' departure, and was ready to speak, she was
25very tolerably capable of attending. "Well, my dear," he deliberately began, "considering we never saw her before, she
26seems a very pretty sort of young lady; and I dare say she was very much pleased with you. She speaks a little too
27quick. A little quickness of voice there is which rather hurts the ear. But I believe I am nice; I do not like strange
28voices; and nobody speaks like you and poor Miss Taylor. However, she seems a very obliging, pretty-behaved young lady,
29and no doubt will make him a very good wife. Though I think he had better not have married. I made the best excuses I
30could for not having been able to wait on him and Mrs. Elton on this happy occasion; I said that I hoped I should in the
31course of the summer. But I ought to have gone before. Not to wait upon a bride is very remiss. Ah! it shews what a sad
32invalid I am! But I do not like the corner into Vicarage Lane." "I dare say your apologies were accepted, sir. Mr. Elton
33knows you." "Yes: but a young lady--a bride--I ought to have paid my respects to her if possible. It was being very
34deficient." "But, my dear papa, you are no friend to matrimony; and therefore why should you be so anxious to pay your
35respects to a bride? It ought to be no recommendation to you. It is encouraging people to marry if you make so much of
36them." "No, my dear, I never encouraged any body to marry, but I would always wish to pay every proper attention to a
37lady--and a bride, especially, is never to be neglected. More is avowedly due to her. A bride, you know, my dear, is
38always the first in company, let the others be who they may." "Well, papa, if this is not encouragement to marry, I do
39not know what is. And I should never have expected you to be lending your sanction to such vanity-baits for poor young
40ladies." "My dear, you do not understand me. This is a matter of mere common politeness and good-breeding, and has
41nothing to do with any encouragement to people to marry." Emma had done. Her father was growing nervous, and could not
42understand her. Her mind returned to Mrs. Elton's offences, and long, very long, did they occupy her.
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