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    Mr. Knightley criticizes Emma's close friendship with Harriet Smith, saying it will not benefit either of them. He thinks Harriet flatters Emma and that Emma will not help Harriet adapt to her station in life. Mrs. Weston disagrees, saying Emma improves Harriet and finds interest and comfort in their friendship. She notes how happy Emma seemed recently. Their differing views could lead to an argument about Emma.

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    Mr. Knightley criticizes Emma's close friendship with Harriet Smith, saying it will not benefit either of them. He thinks Harriet flatters Emma and that Emma will not help Harriet adapt to her station in life. Mrs. Weston disagrees, saying Emma improves Harriet and finds interest and comfort in their friendship. She notes how happy Emma seemed recently. Their differing views could lead to an argument about Emma.

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    Mr. Knightley criticizes Emma's close friendship with Harriet Smith, saying it will not benefit either of them. He thinks Harriet flatters Emma and that Emma will not help Harriet adapt to her station in life. Mrs. Weston disagrees, saying Emma improves Harriet and finds interest and comfort in their friendship. She notes how happy Emma seemed recently. Their differing views could lead to an argument about Emma.

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    Mr. Knightley criticizes Emma's close friendship with Harriet Smith, saying it will not benefit either of them. He thinks Harriet flatters Emma and that Emma will not help Harriet adapt to her station in life. Mrs. Weston disagrees, saying Emma improves Harriet and finds interest and comfort in their friendship. She notes how happy Emma seemed recently. Their differing views could lead to an argument about Emma.

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    fortunate it was for Emma, that there should be such a girl


    Chapter V in Highbury for her to associate with. Mr. Knightley, I
    shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case. You are
    ‘I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. so much used to live alone, that you do not know the
    Weston,’ said Mr. Knightley, ‘of this great intimacy value of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good
    between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one
    thing.’ of her own sex, after being used to it all her life. I can
    ‘A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?— imagine your objection to Harriet Smith. She is not the
    why so?’ superior young woman which Emma’s friend ought to be.
    ‘I think they will neither of them do the other any But on the other hand, as Emma wants to see her better
    good.’ informed, it will be an inducement to her to read more
    ‘You surprize me! Emma must do Harriet good: and by herself. They will read together. She means it, I know.’
    supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may ‘Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she
    be said to do Emma good. I have been seeing their was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her
    intimacy with the greatest pleasure. How very differently drawing-up at various times of books that she meant to
    we feel!—Not think they will do each other any good! read regularly through—and very good lists they were—
    This will certainly be the beginning of one of our quarrels very well chosen, and very neatly arranged—sometimes
    about Emma, Mr. Knightley.’ alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list
    ‘Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel she drew up when only fourteen—I remember thinking it
    with you, knowing Weston to be out, and that you must did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some
    still fight your own battle.’ time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good
    ‘Mr. Weston would undoubtedly support me, if he list now. But I have done with expecting any course of
    were here, for he thinks exactly as I do on the subject. We steady reading from Emma. She will never submit to any
    were speaking of it only yesterday, and agreeing how thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of

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    the fancy to the understanding. Where Miss Taylor failed any body. I am sure you always thought me unfit for the
    to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do office I held.’
    nothing.— You never could persuade her to read half so ‘Yes,’ said he, smiling. ‘You are better placed here; very
    much as you wished.—You know you could not.’ fit for a wife, but not at all for a governess. But you were
    ‘I dare say,’ replied Mrs. Weston, smiling, ‘that I preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you
    thought so then;—but since we have parted, I can never were at Hartfield. You might not give Emma such a
    remember Emma’s omitting to do any thing I wished.’ complete education as your powers would seem to
    ‘There is hardly any desiring to refresh such a memory promise; but you were receiving a very good education
    as that,’—said Mr. Knightley, feelingly; and for a moment from her, on the very material matrimonial point of
    or two he had done. ‘But I,’ he soon added, ‘who have submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid; and
    had no such charm thrown over my senses, must still see, if Weston had asked me to recommend him a wife, I
    hear, and remember. Emma is spoiled by being the should certainly have named Miss Taylor.’
    cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the ‘Thank you. There will be very little merit in making a
    misfortune of being able to answer questions which good wife to such a man as Mr. Weston.’
    puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and ‘Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather
    assured: Isabella slow and diffident. And ever since she was thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear,
    twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you there will be nothing to be borne. We will not despair,
    all. In her mother she lost the only person able to cope however. Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of
    with her. She inherits her mother’s talents, and must have comfort, or his son may plague him.’
    been under subjection to her.’ ‘I hope not that.—It is not likely. No, Mr. Knightley,
    ‘I should have been sorry, Mr. Knightley, to be do not foretell vexation from that quarter.’
    dependent on your recommendation, had I quitted Mr. ‘Not I, indeed. I only name possibilities. I do not
    Woodhouse’s family and wanted another situation; I do pretend to Emma’s genius for foretelling and guessing. I
    not think you would have spoken a good word for me to hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston

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    in merit, and a Churchill in fortune.—But Harriet


    Smith—I have not half done about Harriet Smith. I think
    her the very worst sort of companion that Emma could
    possibly have. She knows nothing herself, and looks upon
    Emma as knowing every thing. She is a flatterer in all her
    ways; and so much the worse, because undesigned. Her
    ignorance is hourly flattery. How can Emma imagine she
    has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting
    such a delightful inferiority? And as for Harriet, I will
    venture to say that she cannot gain by the acquaintance.
    Hartfield will only put her out of conceit with all the
    other places she belongs to. She will grow just refined
    enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom
    birth and circumstances have placed her home. I am much
    mistaken if Emma’s doctrines give any strength of mind,
    or tend at all to make a girl adapt herself rationally to the
    varieties of her situation in life.—They only give a little
    polish.’
    ‘I either depend more upon Emma’s good sense than
    you do, or am more anxious for her present comfort; for I
    cannot lament the acquaintance. How well she looked last
    night!’

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