I could not think about you so much without doating on you, faults and all; and by dint of fancying so many errors, have been in love with you ever since you were thirteen at least." "I am sure you were of use to me," cried Emma.

"I was very often influenced rightly by you--oftener than I would own at the time.

I am very sure you did me good.

And if poor little Anna Weston is to be spoiled, it will be the greatest humanity in you to do as much for her as you have done for me, except falling in love with her when she is thirteen." "How often, when you were a girl, have you said to me, with one of your saucy looks--'Mr.Knightley, I am going to do so-and-so; papa says I may, or I have Miss Taylor's leave'-- something which, you knew, I did not approve.

In such cases my interference was giving you two bad feelings instead of one." "What an amiable creature I was!--No wonder you should hold my speeches in such affectionate remembrance." "'Mr.Knightley.'-- You always called me, 'Mr.Knightley;' and, from habit, it has not so very formal a sound .-- And yet it is formal.