I assure you mine are very different.

I must think your statement by no means fair.

You are not just to Harriet's claims.

They would be estimated very differently by others as well as myself; Mr.Martin may be the richest of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society .-- The sphere in which she moves is much above his .-- It would be a degradation." "A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!" "As to the circumstances of her birth, though in a legal sense she may be called Nobody, it will not hold in common sense.

She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up .-- There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentleman--and a gentleman of fortune .-- Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort .-- That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubitable to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny .-- She is superior to Mr.Robert Martin." "Whoever might be her parents," said Mr.Knightley, "whoever may have had the charge of her, it does not appear to have been any part of their plan to introduce her into what you would call good society.