«‹Ma’am,› addressing her, ‹do you hear what Miss Woodhouse is so obliging to say about Jane’s handwriting?› And Emma had

Volume One

«(…) and a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled in their friends› imagination.»

«‹But still, you will be an old maid, and that’s so dreadful!'»

Volume One, Chapter 7

«She is loveliness itself. Mr. Knightley, is she not?»

«(…) almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.»

«(…) for when his wife died after a three years› marriage, he was rather a poorer man than at first,

«(…) one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her