![]() ![]() ![]() Critics and scholars laud it, while the reading public and schoolteachers stick to Austen's earlier books. Invite him toĮmma is probably the most controversial of all Jane Austen's books. Knightley, laughing, "and I agree with you entirely, that it will be a much better thing. "With a great deal of pleasure, sir, at any time," said Mr. Knightley will be so kind as to meet him." But if you want to shew him any attention, my dear, ask him to come and dine with us some day. Elton is a very pretty young man, to be sure, and a very good young man, and I have a great regard for him. Elton, and this is the only way I have of doing him a service." There is nobody in Highbury who deserves him-and he has been here a whole year, and has fitted up his house so comfortably, that it would be a shame to have him single any longer-and I thought when he was joining their hands to-day, he looked so very much as if he would like to have the same kind office done for him! I think very well of Mr. Elton, papa,-I must look about for a wife for him. ![]()
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