Emma

she has no more heart than a stone to people in general; and the devil of a temper.”

Sorrow came – a gentle sorrow – but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness. – Miss Taylor married

mile from Highbury, was a frequent visitor, and always welcome, and at this time more welcome than usual, as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London.

they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked

employment I do not want; consequence I do not want

“Oh! to be sure,” cried Emma, “it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”

comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex, after being used to it all her life.

perhaps no man can be a good judge of the

She loved every body, was interested in every body’s happiness, quicksighted to every body’s merits

It was her own universal good-will and contented temper which worked such wonders.