Subject for March, 2020

VOLUME I – CHAPTER IX – 1

Subject: Emma

Mr. Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with herself. He was so much displeased, that it was longer than usual before he came to Hartfield again; and wh...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER VIII

Subject: Emma

Harriet slept at Hartfield that night. For some weeks past she had been spending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have a bed-room appropriated to herself;...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER VII

Subject: Emma

The very day of Mr. Elton’s going to London produced a fresh occasion for Emma’s services towards her friend. Harriet had been at Hartfield, as usual, soon after bre...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER VI

Subject: Emma

Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet’s fancy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decid...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER V

Subject: Emma

“I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston,” said Mr. Knightley, “of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing.” “A bad thing! Do ...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER IV

Subject: Emma

Harriet Smith’s intimacy at Hartfield was soon a settled thing. Quick and decided in her ways, Emma lost no time in inviting, encouraging, and telling her to come very oft...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER III

Subject: Emma

Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. He liked very much to have his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from his long residence at Hartfield, ...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER II

Subject: Emma

Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property. He had received a...

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VOLUME I – CHAPTER I

Subject: Emma

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-o...

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Epilogue

Subject: Moby Dick

“AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE” Job. The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck. It so chanced, that after the Parsee’...

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