Her feelings altered towards Emma .-- Offended, probably, by the little encouragement which her proposals of intimacy met with, she drew back in her turn and gradually became much more cold and distant; and though the effect was agreeable, the ill-will which produced it was necessarily increasing Emma's dislike.

Her manners, too--and Mr.
Elton's, were unpleasant towards Harriet.

They were sneering and negligent.

Emma hoped it must rapidly work Harriet's cure; but the sensations which could prompt such behaviour sunk them both very much .-- It was not to be doubted that poor Harriet's attachment had been an offering to conjugal unreserve, and her own share in the story, under a colouring the least favourable to her and the most soothing to him, had in all likelihood been given also.

She was, of course, the object of their joint dislike .-- When they had nothing else to say, it must be always easy to begin abusing Miss Woodhouse; and the enmity which they dared not shew in open disrespect to her, found a broader vent in contemptuous treatment of Harriet.
Mrs.Elton took a great fancy to Jane Fairfax; and from the first.