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1"He is a most fortunate man!" returned Mr. Knightley, with energy. "So early in life--at three-and-twenty--a period
2when, if a man chuses a wife, he generally chuses ill. At three-and-twenty to have drawn such a prize! What years of
3felicity that man, in all human calculation, has before him!--Assured of the love of such a woman--the disinterested
4love, for Jane Fairfax's character vouches for her disinterestedness; every thing in his favour,--equality of
5situation--I mean, as far as regards society, and all the habits and manners that are important; equality in every point
6but one--and that one, since the purity of her heart is not to be doubted, such as must increase his felicity, for it
7will be his to bestow the only advantages she wants.--A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one
8he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of
9mortals.--Frank Churchill is, indeed, the favourite of fortune. Every thing turns out for his good.--He meets with a
10young woman at a watering-place, gains her affection, cannot even weary her by negligent treatment--and had he and all
11his family sought round the world for a perfect wife for him, they could not have found her superior.--His aunt is in
12the way.--His aunt dies.--He has only to speak.--His friends are eager to promote his happiness.--He had used every body
13ill--and they are all delighted to forgive him.--He is a fortunate man indeed!" "You speak as if you envied him." "And I
14do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my envy." Emma could say no more. They seemed to be within half a
15sentence of Harriet, and her immediate feeling was to avert the subject, if possible. She made her plan; she would speak
16of something totally different--the children in Brunswick Square; and she only waited for breath to begin, when Mr.
17Knightley startled her, by saying, "You will not ask me what is the point of envy.--You are determined, I see, to have
18no curiosity.--You are wise--but I cannot be wise. Emma, I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it
19unsaid the next moment." "Oh! then, don't speak it, don't speak it," she eagerly cried. "Take a little time, consider,
20do not commit yourself." "Thank you," said he, in an accent of deep mortification, and not another syllable followed.
21Emma could not bear to give him pain. He was wishing to confide in her--perhaps to consult her;--cost her what it would,
22she would listen. She might assist his resolution, or reconcile him to it; she might give just praise to Harriet, or, by
23representing to him his own independence, relieve him from that state of indecision, which must be more intolerable than
24any alternative to such a mind as his.--They had reached the house. "You are going in, I suppose?" said he.
25"No,"--replied Emma--quite confirmed by the depressed manner in which he still spoke--"I should like to take another
26turn. Mr. Perry is not gone." And, after proceeding a few steps, she added--"I stopped you ungraciously, just now, Mr.
27Knightley, and, I am afraid, gave you pain.--But if you have any wish to speak openly to me as a friend, or to ask my
28opinion of any thing that you may have in contemplation--as a friend, indeed, you may command me.--I will hear whatever
29you like. I will tell you exactly what I think." "As a friend!"--repeated Mr. Knightley.--"Emma, that I fear is a
30word--No, I have no wish--Stay, yes, why should I hesitate?--I have gone too far already for concealment.--Emma, I
31accept your offer--Extraordinary as it may seem, I accept it, and refer myself to you as a friend.--Tell me, then, have
32I no chance of ever succeeding?" He stopped in his earnestness to look the question, and the expression of his eyes
33overpowered her. "My dearest Emma," said he, "for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour's
34conversation, my dearest, most beloved Emma--tell me at once. Say 'No,' if it is to be said."--She could really say
35nothing.--"You are silent," he cried, with great animation; "absolutely silent! at present I ask no more." Emma was
36almost ready to sink under the agitation of this moment. The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was
37perhaps the most prominent feeling. "I cannot make speeches, Emma:" he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere,
38decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.--"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it
39more. But you know what I am.--You hear nothing but truth from me.--I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have
40borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.--Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as
41well as you have borne with them. The manner, perhaps, may have as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been a
42very indifferent lover.--But you understand me.--Yes, you see, you understand my feelings--and will return them if you
43can. At present, I ask only to hear, once to hear your voice." While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all
44the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able--and yet without losing a word--to catch and comprehend the exact truth
45of the whole; to see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake, a delusion, as complete a delusion as
46any of her own--that Harriet was nothing; that she was every thing herself; that what she had been saying relative to
47Harriet had been all taken as the language of her own feelings; and that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her
48discouragement, had been all received as discouragement from herself.--And not only was there time for these
49convictions, with all their glow of attendant happiness; there was time also to rejoice that Harriet's secret had not
50escaped her, and to resolve that it need not, and should not.--It was all the service she could now render her poor
51friend; for as to any of that heroism of sentiment which might have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his
52affection from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of the two--or even the more simple sublimity of
53resolving to refuse him at once and for ever, without vouchsafing any motive, because he could not marry them both, Emma
54had it not. She felt for Harriet, with pain and with contrition; but no flight of generosity run mad, opposing all that
55could be probable or reasonable, entered her brain. She had led her friend astray, and it would be a reproach to her for
56ever; but her judgment was as strong as her feelings, and as strong as it had ever been before, in reprobating any such
57alliance for him, as most unequal and degrading. Her way was clear, though not quite smooth.--She spoke then, on being
58so entreated.--What did she say?--Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.--She said enough to shew there
59need not be despair--and to invite him to say more himself. He had despaired at one period; he had received such an
60injunction to caution and silence, as for the time crushed every hope;--she had begun by refusing to hear him.--The
61change had perhaps been somewhat sudden;--her proposal of taking another turn, her renewing the conversation which she
62had just put an end to, might be a little extraordinary!--She felt its inconsistency; but Mr. Knightley was so obliging
63as to put up with it, and seek no farther explanation. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human
64disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this
65case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.--Mr. Knightley could not impute
66to Emma a more relenting heart than she possessed, or a heart more disposed to accept of his.
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