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volume 1 chapter 8 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 8 harriet slept at hartfield that night for some weeks past she had been spending more than half her time there and gradually getting to have a bedroom appropriated to herself and emma judged it best in every respect safest and kindest to keep her with them as much as possible just at present she was obliged to go the next morning for an hour or two to mrs goddard's but it was then to be settled that she should return to hartfield to make a regular visit of some days while she was gone mr knightley called and sat some time with mr woodhouse and emma till mr woodhouse who had previously made up his mind to walk out was persuaded by his daughter not to defer it and was induced by the entreaties of both though against the scruples of his own civility to leave mr nightly for that purpose mr nightly who had nothing of ceremony about him was offering by his short decided answers and amusing contrast to the protracted apologies and civil hesitations of the other well i believe if you will excuse me mr knightley if you will not consider me as doing a very rude thing i shall take emma's advice and go out for a quarter of an hour as the sun is out i believe i had better take my three turns while i can i treat you without ceremony mr knightley we invalids think we are privileged people my dear sir do not make a stranger of me i leave an excellent substitute in my daughter emma will be happy to entertain you and therefore i think i will beg your excuse and take my three turns my winter walk you cannot do better sir i would ask for the pleasure of your company mr nightly but i am a very slow walker and my pace would be tedious to you and besides you have another long walk before you to dawn well abby thank you sir thank you i am going this moment myself and i think the sooner you go the better i will fetch your great cult and open the garden door for you mr woodhouse at last was off but mr knightley instead of being immediately off likewise sat down again seemingly inclined for more chat he began speaking of harriet and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than emma had ever heard before i cannot write her beauty as you do said he but she is a pretty little creature and i am inclined to think very well of her disposition her character depends upon those she is with but in good hands she will turn out a valuable woman i am glad you think so and the good hands i hope may not be wanting come said he you are anxious for a compliment so i will tell you that you have improved her you have cured her of her school girl's giggle she really does your credit thank you i should be mortified indeed if i did not believe i had been of some use but it is not everybody who will bestow praise where they may you do not often overpower me with it you are expecting her again you sir this morning almost every moment she has been gone longer already than she intended something has happened to delay her some visitors perhaps highbury gossips tiresome wretches harriet may not consider everybody tiresome that you would emma knew this was too true for contradiction and therefore said nothing he presently added with a smile i do not pretend to fix on times or places but i must tell you that i have good reason to believe your little friend will soon hear of something to her advantage indeed how so of what sort a very serious sort i assure you still smiling very serious i can think of but one thing who is in love with her who makes you their confidant emma was more than half in hopes of mr elton's having dropped a hint mr knightley was a sort of general friend and advisor and she knew mr elton looked up to him i have reason to think he replied that harriet smith will soon have an offer of marriage and from a most unexceptionable quarter robert martin is the man...