Zoe’s Reviews > Jane Austen: Four Novels > Status Update

I’m going to take another little break before I dive into “Northanger Abbey”, largely because of all the classicism displayed in “Emma” and how this little line (MILD SPOILERS!) appeared in the second to last page of that novel: “The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.” <_<

“...and perceiving that as reflection did nothing, resolution must do all...”

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”

“She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next-that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.”