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“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
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Omniscient narrator
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Volume I, Chapter 1
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“She would notice [Harriet]; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners.”
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Omniscient Narrator
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Volume I, Chapter 3
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“Her daughter [Miss Bates] enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married.”
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Omniscient Narrator
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Volume I, Chapter 3
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“A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other. But a farmer can need none of my help, and is, therefore, in one sense as much above my notice as in every other he is below it.”
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Emma
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Volume I, Chapter 4
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“A young woman, if she fall into bad hands, may be teased, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man’s being under such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it."
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Emma
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Volume I, Chapter 14
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“The Coles were very respectable in their way, but they ought to be taught that it was not for them to arrange the terms on which the superior families would visit them.”
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Omniscient narrator
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Volume II, Chapter 25
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“Your resolution, or rather your expectation of never marrying, results from the idea that the person whom you might prefer, would be too greatly your superior in situation to think of you.”
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Emma
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Volume III, Chapter 40
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“Were she a woman of fortune, I would leave every harmless absurdity to take its chance, I would not quarrel with you for any liberties of manner. Were she your equal in situation—but, Emma, consider how far this is from being the case. She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to”
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Mr Knightley
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Volume III, Chapter 43
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“Harriet’s parentage became known. She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable maintenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment. Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for! [. . . ] The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.”
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Omniscient narrator
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Volume III, Chapter 55
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