Emma

    Cards (47)

    • "Mine, I confess, are exhausted"
    • "She has no more heart than stone... and the devil of a temper" Mr W on Mrs Churchill
    • "Her manner, too - and Mr Elton's - were unpleasant towards Harriet"
    • "Will you choose a wife for me?"
    • Mr K was "one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them"
    • "Allow me to interpret this interesting silence. It confesses that you have long understood me"
    • "The woman he had just married, the woman he had wanted to marry, and the woman whom he had been expected to marry"
    • "To look at her, no one would think how delighted and happy she is to have secured such a situation"
    • "Must be sacrificing a great deal of independence of hours and habits" (Mr K by moving in with Emma)
    • "It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself"
    • Mr Knightley - "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more"
    • "Robert Martin and Harriet Smith were the first to be married"
    • "Perfect happiness of the union" (Emma and Mr K's marriage)
    • "You will be limited in number - only three at once"
    • "tears running down her cheeks almost all the way home"
    • "The most lovely and accomplished young woman in England for your daughter"
    • "There can be no doubt of it being written for you"
    • "Poor Mrs Weston"
    • "The claims of the man may likely strike us with equal force"
    • "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence"
    • Emma - "A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her"
    • "She would improve her... she would introduce her into good society"
    • "Appearing very polite, while feeling very cross"
    • "In true English style"
    • Mrs Elton "brought no name, no blood, no alliance"
    • "Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people" (Emma rationalising Frank's haircut)
    • "Mrs Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself"
    • "Mrs John Knightley"
    • "a devoted wife...a worshipping wife" (Isabella)
    • Emma admits to being prejudiced: "I very much am, and without being ashamed of it"
    • Emma believes Frank "had almost told her he loved her" (misunderstandings)
    • Mrs Elton refers to Mr K as "Knightley"
    • Emma describes Mrs Elton as an "insufferable woman!"
    • Mrs Elton claims that Jane "shall not do such a thing again" (walk to get her letters...her only freedom)
    • Mrs E's incorrect Italian - "Cara sposo"
    • Emma felt "an increasing respect" for Mr K's house
    • "Mr Knightley had done everything in his power for Mr Woodhouse's entertainment"
    • Jane had a "dreadful headache"
    • Harriet fell in love with "three men in one year"
    • Emma has "none of the usual inducements to marry"
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