12/19 "I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome." "My dearest papa! You do not think I could mean _you_, or suppose Mr. What a horrible idea! Oh no! I meant only myself. Mr.Knightley loves to find fault with me, you know--in a joke--it is all a joke. We always say what we like to one another." Mr.Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body. Miss Taylor has been used to have two persons to please; she will now have but one. |