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volume 1 chapter 16 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 16 the hair was curled and the maid sent away and emma sat down to think and be miserable it was a wretched business indeed such an overthrow of everything she had been wishing for such a development of everything most unwelcome such a blow for harriet that was the worst of all every part of it brought pain and humiliation of some sort or other but compared with the evil to harriet all was light and she would gladly have submitted to feel yet more mistaken more in error more disgraced by misjudgment than she actually was could the effects of her blunders have been confined to herself if i had not persuaded harriet into liking the man i could have borne anything he might have doubled his presumption to me but poor harriet how she could have been so deceived he protested that he had never thought seriously of harriet never she looked back as well as she could but it was all confusion she had taken up the idea she supposed and made everything bend to it his manners however must have been unmarked wavering dubious or she could not have been so misled the picture how eager he had been about the picture and the charade and in hundred other circumstances how clearly they had seemed to point at harriet to be sure the charade with its ready wit but then the soft eyes in fact it suited neither it was a jumble without taste or truth who could have seen through such thick headed nonsense certainly she had often especially of late thought his manners to herself unnecessarily gallant but it had passed as his way as a mere error of judgment of knowledge of taste as one proof among others that he had not always lived in the best society that with all the gentleness of his address true elegance was sometimes wanting but till this very day she had never for an instant suspected it to mean anything but grateful respect to her as harriet's friend to mr john knightley was she indebted for her first idea on the subject for the first start of its possibility there was no denying that those brothers had penetration she remembered what mr knightley had once said to her about mr elton the caution he had given the conviction he had professed that mr elton would never marry indiscreetly and blushed to think how much truer a knowledge of his character had been there shown than any she had reached herself it was dreadfully mortifying but mr elton was proving himself in many respects the very reverse of what she had meant and believed him proud assuming conceited very full of his own claims and little concerned about the feelings of others contrary to the usual course of things mr elton's wanting to pay his addresses to her had sunk him in her opinion his professions and his proposals did him no service she thought nothing of his attachment and was insulted by his hopes he wanted to marry well and having the arrogance to raise his eyes to her pretended to be in love but she was perfectly easy as to his not suffering any disappointment that need to be cared for there had to be no real affection either in his language or manners size and fine words had been given in abundance but she could hardly devise any set of expressions or fancy any tone of voice less allied with real love she need not trouble herself to pity him he only wanted to aggrandize and enrich himself and if miss woodhouse of hartfield the heiress of thirty thousand pounds were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied he would soon try for miss somebody else with twenty or with ten but that he should talk of encouragement should consider her as aware of his views accepting his attentions meaning in short to marry him should suppose himself or equal in connection or mind look down upon her friend so well understanding the gradations of rank below him and be so blind to what rose above...

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volume 1 chapter 7 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 7. the very day of mr elton's going to london produced a fresh occasion for emma's services towards her friend harriet had been at hartfield as usual soon after breakfast and after a time had gone home to return again to dinner she returned and sooner than had been talked of and with an agitated hurried look announcing something extraordinary to have happened which she was longing to tell half a minute brought it all out she had heard as soon as she got back to mrs goddard's that mr martin had been there an hour before and finding she was not at home nor particularly expected had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters and gone away and on opening this parcel she had actually found besides the two songs which she had lent elizabeth to copy a letter to herself and this letter was from him from mr martin and contained a direct proposal of marriage who could have thought it she was so surprised she did not know what to do yes quite a proposal of marriage and a very good letter at least she thought so and he wrote as if he really loved her very much but she did not know and so she was come as fast as she could to ask miss woodhouse what she should do emma was half ashamed of her friend for seeming so pleased and so doubtful upon my word she cried the young man is determined not to lose anything for want of asking he will connect himself well if he can will you read the letter cried harriet pray do i'd rather you would emma was not sorry to be pressed she read and was surprised the style of the letter was much above her expectation there were not merely no grammatical errors but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman the language though plain was strong and unaffected and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer it was short but expressed good sense warm attachment liberality propriety even delicacy of feeling she paused over it while harriet stood anxiously watching for her opinion with a well well and was at last forced to add is it a good letter or is it too short yes indeed a very good letter replied emma rather slowly so got a letter harriet that everything considered i think one of his sisters must have helped him i can hardly imagine the young man whom i saw talking with you the other day could express himself so well if left quite to his own powers and yet it is not the style of a woman no certainly it is too strong and concise not diffuse enough for a woman no doubt he is a sensible man and i suppose may have a natural talent for think strongly and clearly and when he takes a pen in hand his thoughts naturally find proper words it is so with some men yes i understand the sort of mind vigorous decided with sentiments to a certain point not course a better written letter harriet returning it than i had expected well said the still waiting harriet well and and what shall i do what shall you do in what respect do you mean with regard to this letter yes but what are you in doubt of you must answer it of course and speedily yes but what shall i say dear ms woodhouse do advise me oh no no the letter had much better be all your own you will express yourself very properly i am sure there is no danger of your not being intelligible which is the first thing your meaning must be unequivocal no doubts or demures and such expressions of gratitude and concern for the pain you are inflicting as propriety requires will present themselves unbidden to your mind i am persuaded you need not be prompted to write with the appearance of sorrow for his disappointment you think i ought to refuse him then said harriet looking down ought to refuse him my dear harriet what do you mean are you in any doubt as to that i thought but i beg your pardon perhaps i've been under a mistake i certainly...

Emma by Jane Austen 2 Free Classics Literature Entertainment Educational Free Audiobooks.
volume 1 chapter 2 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 2. mr weston was a native of highbury and born of a respectable family which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property he had received a good education but on succeeding early in life to a small independence had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged and had satisfied an active cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his country then embodied captain weston was a general favorite and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to miss churchill of a great yorkshire family and miss churchill fell in love with him nobody was surprised except her brother and his wife who had never seen him and who were full of pride and importance which the connection would offend miss churchill however being of age and with the full command of her fortune though her fortune bore no proportion to the family estate was not to be dissuaded from the marriage and it took place to the infinite mortification of mr and mrs churchill who threw her off with dew decorum it was an unsuitable connection and did not produce much happiness mrs weston ought to have found more in it for she had a husband whose warm heart and sweet temper made him think everything due to her in return for the great goodness of being in love with him but though she had one sort of spirit she had not the best she had resolution enough to pursue her own will in spite of her brother but not enough to refrain from unreasonable regrets at that brother's unreasonable anger nor from missing the luxuries of her former home they lived beyond their income but still it was nothing in comparison of enscombe she did not cease to love her husband but she wanted it once to be the wife of captain weston and miss churchill of enscombe captain weston who had been considered especially by the churchills as making such an amazing match was proved to have much the worst of the bargain for when his wife died after a three years marriage he was rather a poorer man than at first and with a child to maintain from the expense of the child however he was soon relieved the boy had with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's been the means of a sort of reconciliation and mr and mrs churchill having no children of their own nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for offered to take the whole charge of the little frank soon after her decease some scruples and some reluctance the widow or father may be supposed to have felt but as they were overcome by other considerations the child was given up to the care and the wealth of the church health and he had only his own comfort to seek and his own situation to improve as he could a complete change of life became desirable he quitted the militia and engaged in trade having brothers already established in a good way in london which afforded him a favorable opening it was a concern which brought just employment enough he had still a small house in highbury where most of his leisure days were spent and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society the next 18 or 20 years of his life passed cheerfully away he had by that time realized an easy competence enough to secure the purchase of a little estate adjoining highbury which he had always longed for enough to marry a woman as portionless even as miss taylor and to live according to the wishes of his own friendly and social disposition it was now some time since miss taylor had begun to influence his schemes but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase randles and the sale of randalls was long looked forward to but he had gone steadily on with these...

Emma by Jane Austen 3 Free Classics Literature Entertainment Educational Free Audiobooks.
volume 1 chapter 3 of emma by jane austen this libervox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 3. mr woodhouse was fond of society in his own way he liked very much to have his friends come and see him and from various united causes from his long residence at hartfield and his good nature from his fortune his house and his daughter he could command the visits of his own little circle in a great measure as he liked he had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle his horror of late hours and large dinner parties made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms fortunately for him highbury including randalls in the same parish and dawnwall abbey in the parish adjoining the seat of mr nightly comprehended many such not unfrequently through emma's persuasion he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him but evening parties were what he preferred and unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company there was scarcely an evening in the week in which emma could not make up a card table for him real long-standing regard brought the westerns and mr nightly and by mr elton a young man living alone without liking it the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies in society of mr woodhouse's drawing room and the smiles of his lovely daughter was in no danger of being thrown away after these came a second set among the most comatable of whom were mrs and miss bates and mrs goddard three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from hartfield and who were fetched and carried home so often that mr woodhouse thought it's no hardship for either james or the horses had it taken place only once a year it would have been a grievance mrs bates the widow of a former vicar of highbury was a very old lady almost past everything but tea and quadrille she lived with her single daughter in a very small way and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady under such untoward circumstances can excite her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young handsome rich nor married miss bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favor and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect she had never boasted either beauty or cleverness her youth had passed without distinction and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother and the endeavor to make a small income go as far as possible and yet she was a happy woman and a woman whom no one named without goodwill it was her own universal goodwill and contented temper which worked such wonders she loved everybody was interested in everybody's happiness quick sighted to everybody's merits thought herself a most fortunate creature and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother and so many good neighbors and friends and a home that wanted for nothing the simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature her contented and grateful spirit were a recommendation to everybody and a mine of felicity to herself she was a great talker upon little matters which exactly suited mr woodhouse full of trivial communications and harmless gossip mrs goddard was the mistress of a school not of a seminary or an establishment or anything which professed in long sentences of refined nonsense to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real honest old-fashioned boarding school where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price and where girls might be sent to be out of the way and scramble themselves into a little education without any danger of...

Emma by Jane Austen 4 Free Classics Literature Entertainment Educational Free Audiobooks.
volume 1 chapter 4 of emma by jane austen this librivox recording is in the public domain volume 1 chapter 4. harriet smith's intimacy at heartfield was soon a settled thing quick and decided in her ways emma lost no time in inviting encouraging and telling her to come very often and as their acquaintance increased so did their satisfaction in each other as a walking companion emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her in that respect mrs weston's loss had been important her father never went beyond the shrubbery where two divisions of the ground sufficed him for his long walk or his short as the year varied and since mrs weston's marriage her exercise had been too much confined she had ventured once alone to randalls but it was not pleasant and a harriet smith therefore one whom she could summon at any time to a walk would be a valuable addition to her privileges but in every respect as she saw more of her she approved her and was confirmed in all her kind designs harriet certainly was not clever but she had a sweet docile grateful disposition was totally free from conceit and only desiring to be guided by anyone she looked up to her early attachment to herself was very amiable and her inclination for good company and power of appreciating what was elegant and clever showed that there was no want of taste though strength of understanding must not be expected altogether she was quite convinced of harriet smith's being exactly the young friend she wanted exactly the something which her home required such a friend as mrs weston was out of the question too such could never be granted to such she did not want it was quite a different sort of thing a sentiment distinct and independent mrs weston was the object of a regard which had its basis in gratitude and esteem harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be useful for mrs weston there was nothing to be done for harriet everything her first attempt such usefulness were in an endeavor to find out who were the parents but harriet could not tell she was ready to tell everything in her power but on this subject questions were vain emma was obliged to fancy what she liked but she could never believe that in the same situation she should not have discovered the truth harriet had no penetration she had been satisfied to hear and believe just what mrs goddard chose to tell her and looked no farther mrs goddard and the teachers and to the girls and the affairs of the school in general formed naturally a great part of the conversation and but for her acquaintance with the martins of abbey mill farm it must have been the whole but the martins occupied her thoughts a good deal she had spent two very happy months with them and now loved to talk of the pleasures of her visit and describe the many comforts and wonders of the place emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exaltation of mrs martin's having two parlors two very good parlors indeed one of them quite as large as mrs goddard's drawing room and of her having an upper maid who had lived five and twenty years with her and of their having eight cows two of them alderney's and one a little welch cow a very pretty little welch cow indeed and of mrs martin's saying as she was so fond of it it should be called her cow and over there having a very handsome summer house in their garden where someday next year they were all to drink tea a very handsome summer house large enough to hold a dozen people for some time she was amused without thinking beyond the immediate cause but as she came to understand the family better other feelings arose she had taken up a wrong idea fancying it was a mother and daughter a son and son's wife who all lived together but when it appeared that the mr martin who bore a part in the...

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cast of characters mr henry woodhouse read by robert hoffman emma woodhouse read by amanda friday george knightley read by jason mills harriet smith read by eden ray hedrick mrs ann weston read by tiffany hala colonna mr phillip elton read by chris marcellus mr john knightley read by noel badrian isabella knightley read by capricia page mr weston read by algae pug miss bates read by arielle lipshaw mrs bates spread by carrie ray clark jane farfax red babel gonzalez frank churchill read by max charlene mrs augusta elton read by grace garrett mrs kell reads by carmen h mrs ford read by elizabeth clatt volume 1 narration read by bev stevens volume 2 narrated by capricia page volume 3 narrated by capricia page volume 1 chapter 1 emma woodhouse handsome clever and rich with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly 21 years in the world with very little to distress or vex her she was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate indulgent father and had in consequence of her sister's marriage been mistress of his house from a very early period her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess who had fallen little short of a mother in affection sixteen years had missed taylor bean in mr woodhouse's family less as a governess than a friend very fond of both daughters but particularly of emma between them it was more the intimacy of sisters even before miss taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess the mildness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint and the shadow of authority being now long passed away they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached and emma doing just what she liked highly esteeming miss taylor's judgment but directed chiefly by her own the real evils indeed of emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way and a disposition to think a little too well of herself these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments the danger however was at present so unperceived that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her sorrow came a gentle sorrow but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness miss taylor married it was miss taylor's loss which first brought grief it was on the wedding day of this beloved friend that emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance the wedding over and the bride people gone her father and herself were left to dine together with no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening her father composed himself to sleep after dinner as usual and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost the event had every promise of happiness for her friend mr weston was a man of unexceptional character easy fortune suitable age and pleasant manners and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying generous friendship she had always wished and promoted to the match but it was a black morning's work for her the want of miss taylor would be felt every hour of every day she recalled her past kindness the kindness the affection of sixteen years how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood a large debt of gratitude was owing here but the...

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