“‘Ma’am,’ addressing her, ‘do you hear what Miss Woodhouse is so obliging to say about Jane’s handwriting?’ And Emma had the advantage of hearing her...

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, and with a child to...