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How was it to be endured? And if he were to be lost to them for Harriet's sake, if he were to be thought Harriet's society all that he wanted; Harriet were to be the chosen, the first, the dearest, the friend, the wife to whom he looked for all the best blessings of existence; what could be increasing Emma's wretchedness but the reflection never far distant from her mind, that it had been all her own work?

How to understand the deceptions she had been thus practising on herself, and living under!-The blunders, the blindness of her own head and heart! . she perceived that she had acted most weakly, that she had been imposed on by others in a most mortifying degree, imposing on herself in a degree yet more mortifying; . She was most sorrowfully indignant, ashamed of every sensation but the one revealed--her affection for

It is hard to call Austen boring, but this aura of mild dullness that pervades this one for me is stumping me a little. The novel is wider in scope in a way than the previous three but without hitting some of the same highs. If you read one Austen I could see this being the ideal choice but it may end ip being my least favorite when I finish all of them. Emma's monologue lacks compared to characters like P&P's Liz

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Elton:
'I absolutely cannot do without music. It is a necessary of life to me; ... I condition for nothing else; but without music, life would be a blank to me.'

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"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."