Subject for March, 2020
VOLUME I – CHAPTER XVIII
Subject: Emma
Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew near, Mrs. Weston’s fears were justified in the arrival of a letter of excuse. For the present, he could not ...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER XVII
Subject: Emma
Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley were not detained long at Hartfield. The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr. Woodhouse having, as usual, tried to p...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER XVI
Subject: Emma
The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable.—It was a wretched business indeed!—Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishin...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER XV
Subject: Emma
Mr. Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drank his tea he was quite ready to go home; and it was as much as his three companions could do, to entertain away his...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER XIV
Subject: Emma
Some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they walked into Mrs. Weston’s drawing-room;—Mr. Elton must compose his joyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER XIII
Subject: Emma
There could hardly be a happier creature in the world than Mrs. John Knightley, in this short visit to Hartfield, going about every morning among her old acquaintance with her f...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER XII
Subject: Emma
Mr. Knightley was to dine with them—rather against the inclination of Mr. Woodhouse, who did not like that any one should share with him in Isabella’s first day. Emma̵...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER XI
Subject: Emma
Mr. Elton must now be left to himself. It was no longer in Emma’s power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures. The coming of her sister’s family was s...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER X
Subject: Emma
Though now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise; and on the morrow, Emma had a charitable visit to p...
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VOLUME I – CHAPTER IX – 2
Subject: Emma
May its approval beam in that soft eye! Harriet exactly. Soft is the very word for her eye—of all epithets, the justest that could be given. Thy ready wit the word will soon su...
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