On the contrary, I think a young man might be very safely recommended to take Mr.Elton as a model.

Mr.Elton is good-humoured, cheerful, obliging, and gentle.
He seems to me to be grown particularly gentle of late.

I do not know whether he has any design of ingratiating himself with either of us, Harriet, by additional softness, but it strikes me that his manners are softer than they used to be.

If he means any thing, it must be to please you.

Did not I tell you what he said of you the other day ?" She then repeated some warm personal praise which she had drawn from Mr.
Elton, and now did full justice to; and Harriet blushed and smiled, and said she had always thought Mr.Elton very agreeable.
Mr.Elton was the very person fixed on by Emma for driving the young farmer out of Harriet's head.