Even Mr. Knightley agrees with me! They'd have been a good match!
“As to the circumstances of her birth, though in a legal sense she may be called Nobody, it will not hold in common sense. She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up.—There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentleman—and a gentleman of fortune.—Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort.—That she is a gentleman’s daughter, is indubitable to me; that she associates with gentlemen’s daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny.—She is superior to Mr. Robert Martin.”
- ok maybe she's right, you know
“Whoever might be her parents,” said Mr. Knightley, “whoever may have had the charge of her, it does not appear to have been any part of their plan to introduce her into what you would call good society. After receiving a very indifferent education she is left in Mrs. Goddard’s hands to shift as she can;—to move, in short, in Mrs. Goddard’s line, to have Mrs. Goddard’s acquaintance. Her friends evidently thought this good enough for her; and it was good enough. She desired nothing better herself. Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it. She was as happy as possible with the Martins in the summer. She had no sense of superiority then. If she has it now, you have given it. You have been no friend to Harriet Smith, Emma. Robert Martin would never have proceeded so far, if he had not felt persuaded of her not being disinclined to him. I know him well. He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion. And as to conceit, he is the farthest from it of any man I know. Depend upon it he had encouragement.”
- ugh this is gonna blow up, isn't it?
and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
- ok again, she makes a few good points
"I am very much mistaken if your sex in general would not think such beauty, and such temper, the highest claims a woman could possess.”
“Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.”
Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judgment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable.
- God, never thought that Emma would be so sad to know that Mr. Knightley is disappointed in her
Some minutes passed in this unpleasant silence, with only one attempt on Emma’s side to talk of the weather, but he made no answer. He was thinking. The result of his thoughts appeared at last in these words
“Robert Martin has no great loss—if he can but think so; and I hope it will not be long before he does. Your views for Harriet are best known to yourself; but as you make no secret of your love of match-making, it is fair to suppose that views, and plans, and projects you have;—and as a friend I shall just hint to you that if Elton is the man, I think it will be all labour in vain.”
- ok Mr. Knightley says Mr. Elton isn't the romantic sort and won't marry Harriet. But he's totally likes Harriet. Perhaps he'll change?
“I am very much obliged to you,” said Emma, laughing again. “If I had set my heart on Mr. Elton’s marrying Harriet, it would have been very kind to open my eyes; but at present I only want to keep Harriet to myself. I have done with match-making indeed. I could never hope to equal my own doings at Randalls. I shall leave off while I am well.”
Imagine you're Mr. Knightley. You've just received news from your work friend(or something like it) that he's planning to propose to this girl. The very same girl who's now besties with your old friend and your sister-in-law's sister. When you are joyfully telling her this, she just goes-"Oh, yeah, I already knew that. He got rejected. Totally not my doing at all. Old news. Anyways how's the weather?"
like bro, valid crash out on Mr. Knightley's part.
- bro Mr. Elton is talking about Harriet only right? It can't be a misunderstanding?
- maybe Emma is right, Mr. Elton sure does seem like he's having a major crush
Her views of improving her little friend’s mind, by a great deal of useful reading and conversation, had never yet led to more than a few first chapters, and the intention of going on to-morrow. It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet’s fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts;
- as someone who ought to be studying for their exams right now, but reading a novel, this is too real rn
- love island ep 2: The Charade
- god this is so funny stop
- also Emma should have been a gardener cuz she sure knows how to plant seeds of affection in Harriet's mind
Can it be Neptune? Or a trident? or a mermaid? or a shark?
- Mermaids!?!? it's so teenage girl core.
- Mr. Woodhouse STILL hasn't accepted that his eldest daughter is married and has her own life now? bro why is Mr. Woodhouse like this lol
- Now he's questioning why kids like to play rough? ....has he met CHILDREN?!?!
“Well, I cannot understand it.”
“That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- ok but Austen quotes still slap, after all these years
If i was Mr. Elton and somebody put my personal poem in a book in spite of my explicit instructions not to, I'd murder them, but that's just me i think.
