Jane Austeni "Emma" ja "Persuasion"
Goddard's boarding school.
Determining first to improve Harriet, Emma discourages her interest in worthy Robert
Martin of Abbey-Mill Farm, declares that Harriet must be from more genteel parents than
his, and fixes upon Harriet as Mr. Elton's future wife.
In bringing the two together socially, Emma does a drawing of Harriet which Mr. Elton
admires and takes off to London to be framed. This appears so promising to Emma that,
when Harriet receives a letter of proposal from Robert Martin, Emma discredits him and
actually helps Harriet write a letter of refusal in spite of the fact that Mr. Knightley has
nothing but respect for Robert. Ensuing events convince Emma that Harriet and Mr. Elton
are developing a mutual regard, and she takes pride in the apparent success of her
endeavor, at the same time affirming that she herself will never marry.
For the Christmas holidays Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, respectively the brother of
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