[Emma by Jane Austine]@TWC D-Link bookEmma CHAPTERXVIII
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Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject." "You mistake me, you quite mistake me," she replied, exerting herself. "It is not that such a circumstance would now make me unhappy, but I cannot believe it.
It seems an impossibility!--You cannot mean to say, that Harriet Smith has accepted Robert Martin.
You cannot mean that he has even proposed to her again--yet.
You only mean, that he intends it." "I mean that he has done it," answered Mr.Knightley, with smiling but determined decision, "and been accepted." "Good God!" she cried.--"Well!"-- Then having recourse to her workbasket, in excuse for leaning down her face, and concealing all the exquisite feelings of delight and entertainment which she knew she must be expressing, she added, "Well, now tell me every thing; make this intelligible to me.
How, where, when ?--Let me know it all.
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