...HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S DUTIFUL AND OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. EMMA. CHAP. I. EMMA Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home...to distress or vex her. She was the youngest of the twodaughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father, and had, in consequenceof her sister's marriage,...

...and the time occupied in its development is about thirteen months. EMMA. CHAPTER I. EMMA WOODHOUSE, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home...the world with very little to distress or vex her. JSlie was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father, and had, in consequence...

...after her, she will do very well. Her position would be a spoiling one for any girl. " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home...disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings oJ existence ; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex...

...after her, she will do very well. Her position would be a spoiling one for any girl. " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some 9 of the best blessings of existence ; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very...

...Harriet. THREE LOVES. Characters. Emma Woodhouse, Harriet Smith, Mr Knightley. NB " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home...indulgent father ; and had, in consequence of her sister's (Isabella) marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. The real evils, indeed, of...

...like ' — but the first words of the book predispose the reader in her favour : — Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite 1 Emma, 1814-1815 ; Persuasion, 1815-1816. 2 Brabourne, ii. 312. 3 Ibid. eome of the best blessings...

...like ' — but the first words of the book predispose the reader in her favour : — Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite , 18U-181B; Persuasion, 1815-1816. Brabouruo, ii. 312. ' Met. 151 tome of the beat blessings of existence...

...Heights, if we are happy enough to have the discernment which can enjoy all three. " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home...the world with very little to distress or vex her." Truly the story which opens thus is a quiet story of quiet people quietly told. It is the story of...

...disposition, seemed to unite 1 Emma, 1814-1815 ; Persuasion, 1815-1816. " Brabourne, ii. 312. 3 Ibid. 151 some of the best blessings of existence ; and had...years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.1 The cheerful vein in which the story is begun continues throughout. The movement of the piece...

...summaries in a lump at the very outset (characteristically in the perfect tense): "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home...the world with very little to distress or vex her." Or, after an initial in medias res scene, putting us into the Court of Chancery on a particularly foggy...