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926 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Weston invites members of Highbury society to dine with his family at Randalls on Christmas Eve. Although Harriet Smith is invited, she cannot attend because of a cold. Despite Emma's reluctance, Mr. Elton still resolves to attend. Mr. Woodhouse also attends the party, despite inclement weather that would usually f... | [
"There could hardly be a happier creature in the world than Mrs. John\nKnightley, in this short visit to Hartfield, going about every morning\namong her old acquaintance with her five children, and talking over what\nshe had done every evening with her father and sister. She had nothing\nto wish otherwise, but that... |
927 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During her visit with the Westons, Mr. Elton continually attempts to be near Emma, who still hopes that she can fix the situation in Harriet's favor. Emma hears more about Frank Churchill and begins to wonder about the possibility of a match between them. Of all the men that she knows, Frank seems to suit her the best ... | [
"Some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they\nwalked into Mrs. Weston's drawing-room;--Mr. Elton must compose his\njoyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley disperse his ill-humour. Mr.\nElton must smile less, and Mr. John Knightley more, to fit them for the\nplace.--Emma only might be as nature ... |
928 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Harriet call upon Mrs. and Miss Bates. Miss Bates speaks incessantly and pointlessly, but Emma behaves with exemplary manners, even asking about Jane Fairfax when Miss Bates mentions her. Miss Bates received a letter from Jane, who intends to visit next week. She will be sent by the Campbells, who paid for her... | [
"Emma and Harriet had been walking together one morning, and, in Emma's\nopinion, had been talking enough of Mr. Elton for that day. She could\nnot think that Harriet's solace or her own sins required more; and\nshe was therefore industriously getting rid of the subject as they\nreturned;--but it burst out again wh... |
929 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter tells the story of Jane Fairfax, the granddaughter of Mrs. Bates, whose mother died when Jane was a small child. Jane was brought up by the Campbells, for Colonel Campbell had served in the army with Jane's late father, and the young girl had been well educated on his behalf. Emma is sorry to have Jane Fai... | [
"Jane Fairfax was an orphan, the only child of Mrs. Bates's youngest\ndaughter.",
"The marriage of Lieut. Fairfax of the ----regiment of infantry,\nand Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope\nand interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy\nremembrance of him dying in action... |
930 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley compliments Emma on how well she treated Jane Fairfax when they dined together. As Mr. Knightley tells Emma that he has news for her, Miss Bates and Jane Fairfax interrupt them. Jane thanks Emma for the hind-quarter of pork that she had sent to her, and tells Emma that Mr. Elton is to be married to a Miss... | [
"Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment\nwere discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had\nseen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was\nexpressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with\nMr. Woodhouse, his approbation... |
931 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Not a week after Miss Augusta Hawkins' name had been mentioned among Highbury, she had already been revealed to be handsome, elegant, accomplished and highly amicable, although Emma notes that she has no truly respectable family connections. Mr. Elton returns to Highbury with renewed spirits as he is to be married shor... | [
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting\nsituations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of\nbeing kindly spoken of.",
"A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in\nHighbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have\n... |
932 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet gives Emma the details of her visit with the Martins. Fatigued by the business of Harriet, the Martins, and Mr. Elton, Emma visits the Westons. Frank Churchill, a very good looking man, finally arrives in Highbury, and Emma immediately likes him, for he is quite charming and well spoken. Emma, Mr. Woodhouse and... | [
"Small heart had Harriet for visiting. Only half an hour before her\nfriend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her\nto the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to _The Rev.\nPhilip Elton, White-Hart, Bath_, was to be seen under the operation of\nbeing lifted into the butcher's ca... |
933 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank Churchill and Mrs. Weston visit Emma, who decides that Mr. Knightley must have been wrong about him. When visiting the Crown Inn and seeing its ballroom, Frank suggests to Emma that she, with her resources, should hold dances there. Surprisingly, Frank disparages Jane Fairfax to Emma, who defends her. While they ... | [
"The next morning brought Mr. Frank Churchill again. He came with Mrs.\nWeston, to whom and to Highbury he seemed to take very cordially. He had\nbeen sitting with her, it appeared, most companionably at home, till\nher usual hour of exercise; and on being desired to chuse their walk,\nimmediately fixed on Highbury... |
934 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma's good opinion of Frank Churchill is shaken when she hears that he has gone to London simply to get a haircut. The Coles, a family of low origin involved in trade, invite the better families of Highbury to dine with them. Although Emma thinks that this is an affront to her high place in society she should decide h... | [
"Emma's very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the\nfollowing day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have\nhis hair cut. A sudden freak seemed to have seized him at breakfast, and\nhe had sent for a chaise and set off, intending to return to dinner,\nbut with no more important v... |
935 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank Churchill returns from London, unashamed of what he had done. At the Coles' party, Mrs. Cole tells how Jane Fairfax received a new piano from an unknown source. Frank Churchill is obviously amused by the story, and Emma tells him her suspicions that it is a gift from Mrs. Dixon. He suggests to Emma that Mr. Dixon... | [
"Frank Churchill came back again; and if he kept his father's dinner\nwaiting, it was not known at Hartfield; for Mrs. Weston was too anxious\nfor his being a favourite with Mr. Woodhouse, to betray any imperfection\nwhich could be concealed.",
"He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a ve... |
936 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet Smith visits Emma and tells her that she suspects Robert Martin to be involved with Anne Cox. They shop at Ford's together, and Emma sees Mrs. Weston and Frank Churchill going to visit Miss Bates. While Emma and Harriet continue to shop, Miss Bates invites them to hear Jane Fairfax play at her new piano. | [
"Emma did not repent her condescension in going to the Coles. The visit\nafforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she\nmight be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must\nbe amply repaid in the splendour of popularity. She must have delighted\nthe Coles--worthy people... |
937 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Bates' home, Emma listens to Jane play. Mr. Knightley stops by the Bates' while Emma and Frank are there, but because of the numerous visitors he promises to call another time. Miss Bates thanks Mr. Knightley for sending them his store of apples. | [
"The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was\ntranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment,\nslumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near\nher, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax,\nstanding with her back to them, intent on her... |
938 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank Churchill, who so enjoyed dancing at the Cole's party, plans another one for Highbury. Although initially planned for Randalls, the lack of acceptable space for dancing leads him to plan it instead for the Crown Inn. | [
"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been\nknown of young people passing many, many months successively, without\nbeing at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue\neither to body or mind;--but when a beginning is made--when the\nfelicities of rapid motion have once b... |
939 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A letter arrives from Mr. Churchill to urge his nephew's instant return due to Mrs. Churchill's sudden illness. This ruins the preparations for the ball, and they must postpone the event. When Frank leaves, Emma is certain that he almost tells her that he loved her. She convinces herself that she is in love. | [
"One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely\nsatisfactory to Emma--its being fixed for a day within the granted\nterm of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston's\nconfidence, she could not think it so very impossible that the\nChurchills might not allow their nephew... |
940 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma has no doubt that she is in love but wonders how much she can actually love Frank Churchill if she is no less happy during his absence. She realizes that she is not in love to her vow never to marry or quit her father. Emma starts to wonder if Frank might instead be a good match for Harriet. Emma scolds Harriet fo... | [
"Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being in love. Her ideas only varied as to the how much. At first, she thought it was a good deal; and afterwards, but little. She had great pleasure in hearing Frank Churchill talked of; and, for his sake, greater pleasure than ever in seeing Mr. and Mrs. Weston; she wa... |
941 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma first sees the new Mrs. Elton at church, but she cannot be in the vicinity of the Eltons without recollecting Mr. Elton's bad behavior and Emma's meddling. Emma finds that Mrs. Elton has no elegance and maintains that Harriet would have been a better wife for Mr. Elton because of her higher social connections. Whe... | [
"Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be\ninterrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and\nit must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to\nsettle whether she were very pretty indeed, or only rather pretty, or\nnot pretty at all.",
"Emma had f... |
942 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Elton, offended by the little encouragement given by Emma, become cold and distant to her. Her manners, and those of Mr. Elton, also become more unpleasant toward Harriet. Mrs. Elton does, however, take a great fancy to Jane Fairfax, a fact which causes Emma to pity Jane for the first time. Jane refuses an invitat... | [
"Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill\nopinion of Mrs. Elton. Her observation had been pretty correct. Such as\nMrs. Elton appeared to her on this second interview, such she appeared\nwhenever they met again,--self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant,\nand ill-bred. She had a ... |
943 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma decides to have a party for the Eltons at Hartfield to hide her contempt for the couple. Besides the Eltons, Emma invites Mr. Knightley, the Westons, and Jane Fairfax. During the party, they discuss Jane's trip to the post office and her handwriting. Mr. Knightley makes another disparaging comment about Frank Chur... | [
"Every body in and about Highbury who had ever visited Mr. Elton, was\ndisposed to pay him attention on his marriage. Dinner-parties and\nevening-parties were made for him and his lady; and invitations flowed\nin so fast that she had soon the pleasure of apprehending they were\nnever to have a disengaged day.",
"... |
944 | 158_volume_2,_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During the later part of the party, Jane mentions that she must become a governess, which she compares to the slave trade. Mr. Weston arrives at the party after a day of business in London and gives Mrs. Weston a letter from Frank Churchill, who is returning to Highbury since his aunt's health improved. | [
"When the ladies returned to the drawing-room after dinner, Emma found it\nhardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;--with so\nmuch perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross\nJane Fairfax and slight herself. She and Mrs. Weston were obliged to\nbe almost always either talki... |
945 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma's attachment to Frank Churchill has subsided, but she is now concerned that he is in love with her. When Frank returns, he and his aunt and uncle decide to stay a house nine miles away from Mr. Weston. He begins preparations for a ball at the Crown Inn, and Emma is surprised that he only visits her once in ten day... | [
"A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the\nnature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. She\nwas soon convinced that it was not for herself she was feeling at all\napprehensive or embarrassed; it was for him. Her own attachment had\nreally subsided into a mere nothing;... |
946 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank Churchill behaves oddly towards Emma at the ball at the Crown Inn. During the first dance, Emma and Frank dance second to Mr. Weston and Mrs. Elton, and Mrs. Elton is completely gratified by this. Emma wishes that she could like Frank better than she actually does. When Mrs. Weston encourages Mr. Elton to dance w... | [
"No misfortune occurred, again to prevent the ball. The day approached,\nthe day arrived; and after a morning of some anxious watching, Frank\nChurchill, in all the certainty of his own self, reached Randalls before\ndinner, and every thing was safe.",
"No second meeting had there yet been between him and Emma. T... |
947 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank Churchill and Harriet arrive at Hartfield the day after the ball. The night before, when Harriet was walking home, a party of gypsies approached Harriet and her companions and chased them. Harriet was assaulted by a group of them and was saved by Frank Churchill, who was on his way to return a pair of scissors to... | [
"This little explanation with Mr. Knightley gave Emma considerable\npleasure. It was one of the agreeable recollections of the ball, which\nshe walked about the lawn the next morning to enjoy.--She was extremely\nglad that they had come to so good an understanding respecting the\nEltons, and that their opinions of ... |
948 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet visits Emma several days later to make a confession. She has a parcel with items that remindher of Mr. Elton, including a small box with a court plaster that was used to cover a small cut that Mr. Elton had. Harriet claims that she is now done obsessing over Mr. Elton and vows never to marry, for the person she... | [
"A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one\nmorning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down\nand hesitating, thus began:",
"\"Miss Woodhouse--if you are at leisure--I have something that I should\nlike to tell you--a sort of confession to make--and then, you kn... |
949 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley only grows to dislike Frank Churchill more, as he suspects double-dealing in Frank's pursuit of Emma. It seemed indisputable that Emma was the object of his affections, but Mr. Knightley suspects that he had an interest in Jane Fairfax the whole time. Over tea at Hartfield, Emma, Frank, Harriet and Jane p... | [
"In this state of schemes, and hopes, and connivance, June opened upon\nHartfield. To Highbury in general it brought no material change. The\nEltons were still talking of a visit from the Sucklings, and of the use\nto be made of their barouche-landau; and Jane Fairfax was still at her\ngrandmother's; and as the ret... |
950 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Elton plans a picnic, and Mr. Knightley offers Donwell Abbey as the location. She presumes to make all of the invitations herself, even though it takes place at his estate, but Mr. Knightley tells her that only one woman can invite anyone to Donwell Abbey, and that is the future Mrs. Knightley, whoever she may tur... | [
"After being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit from Mr. and Mrs.\nSuckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification\nof hearing that they could not possibly come till the autumn. No such\nimportation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores at\npresent. In the daily interchange of... |
951 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the party goes to Box Hill for a picnic. Frank Churchill is still in a bad mood, but his mood improves when he concentrates only on amusing Emma. The party is listless, so Frank proposes a little game: everyone must say one thing very clever to Emma, or else two things moderately clever, or three things d... | [
"They had a very fine day for Box Hill; and all the other outward\ncircumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality, were in\nfavour of a pleasant party. Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating\nsafely between Hartfield and the Vicarage, and every body was in good\ntime. Emma and Harriet went togethe... |
952 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ashamed of what she has done, Emma visits Miss Bates to apologize for her behavior at Box Hill, but she is not home. Emma waits for her with Mrs. Bates. Miss Bates does arrive and tells Emma that Jane was crying and writing letters to Colonel Campbell and Mrs. Dixon. She will be going to be the governess for Mrs. Small... | [
"The wretchedness of a scheme to Box Hill was in Emma's thoughts all the evening. How it might be considered by the rest of the party, she could not tell. They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on it with pleasure; but in her view it was a morning more completely misspent, m... |
953 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Emma returns home, she finds that Mr. Knightley and Harriet have arrived. He tells Emma that he is going to London to spend time with John and Isabella,and is touched to learn that Emma has gone to see Miss Bates. He takes her hand and is about to kiss it, yet suddenly lets it go. The following day, there is news ... | [
"Emma's pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted;\nbut on entering the parlour, she found those who must rouse her. Mr.\nKnightley and Harriet had arrived during her absence, and were sitting\nwith her father.--Mr. Knightley immediately got up, and in a manner\ndecidedly graver than usual, said... |
954 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Weston urgently requests Emma's presence at Randalls, for Mrs. Weston has important news. When Emma arrives, Mrs. Weston looks quite disturbed. She has news that Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax have been secretly engaged. Emma tells Mrs. Weston honestly that she was once interested in Frank, but that interest subs... | [
"One morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill's decease, Emma was\ncalled downstairs to Mr. Weston, who \"could not stay five minutes,\nand wanted particularly to speak with her.\"--He met her at the\nparlour-door, and hardly asking her how she did, in the natural key of\nhis voice, sunk it immediately, to say,... |
955 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma realizes that Harriet might be upset by the turn of events, for this is the second time that Emma has suggested that someone might be interested in the poor woman. Emma is angry with Frank Churchill for the deception but is at least relieved that Jane will not sink into an insignificant life. When Emma sees Harrie... | [
"\"Harriet, poor Harriet!\"--Those were the words; in them lay the\ntormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted\nthe real misery of the business to her. Frank Churchill had behaved very\nill by herself--very ill in many ways,--but it was not so much _his_\nbehaviour as her _own_, which m... |
956 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma gives up hope that Mr. Knightley is in love with her. Even if he were, she would still not be able to marry him because of her father's need for constant attention. Mrs. Weston tells Emma that Jane Fairfax regrets being involved in a suspicious private engagement and wishes that she had handled the situation with ... | [
"Till now that she was threatened with its loss, Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being _first_ with Mr. Knightley, first in interest and affection.--Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found ho... |
957 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley stops by Hartfield to see Emma, and they discuss Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax. He fears that Jane will be miserable with a man as intolerable as Frank Churchill but hopes that she will improve him. Mr. Knightley admits that he envies Frank in one respect. Emma fears that he will mention Harriet, but M... | [
"The weather continued much the same all the following morning; and the same loneliness, and the same melancholy, seemed to reign at Hartfield--but in the afternoon it cleared; the wind changed into a softer quarter; the clouds were carried off; the sun appeared; it was summer again. With all the eagerness which su... |
958 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma now has two obstacles to a marriage with Mr. Knightley: her father and Harriet Smith. Emma cannot marry Mr. Knightley while her father lives, for any marriage would greatly inconvenience him. Moreover, she does not know how to break the news to Harriet. She attempts to get Harriet invited to stay with Isabella in ... | [
"What totally different feelings did Emma take back into the house from\nwhat she had brought out!--she had then been only daring to hope for\na little respite of suffering;--she was now in an exquisite flutter of\nhappiness, and such happiness moreover as she believed must still be\ngreater when the flutter should... |
959 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley and Emma discuss Frank Churchill's letter come to the same conclusion: Frank Churchill did not behave well, but he was partially justified, especially since there has been no final harm. They also onsider the various options to deal with Emma's father. Mr. Knightley suggests moving him to Donwell Abbey wi... | [
"This letter must make its way to Emma's feelings. She was obliged, in\nspite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the\njustice that Mrs. Weston foretold. As soon as she came to her own name,\nit was irresistible; every line relating to herself was interesting,\nand almost every line agreeabl... |
960 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet finally learns about Emma and Mr. Knightley and bears the news well enough. Emma visits the Bates in order to see Jane Fairfax. Mrs. Elton is also there and tells Emma that she knows the good news about her and Mr. Knightley. Emma learns that Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax will marry soon, after an appropriat... | [
"It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as\nherself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse was painful enough by\nletter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet!",
"Harriet expressed herself very much as might be supposed, without\nreproaches, or apparent sense of ill-usage; and yet ... |
961 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Weston gives birth to a little girl, Anna, and begins discussing the possibility of marrying her to one of Isabella's sons. Emma and Mr. Knightley publicly share the news of their engagement. Mr. Woodhouse dislikes the idea of Emma marrying Mr. Knightley because it would force him to change his habits. Still, he i... | [
"Mrs. Weston's friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the\nsatisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma, it was by\nknowing her to be the mother of a little girl. She had been decided in\nwishing for a Miss Weston. She would not acknowledge that it was with\nany view of making a match for he... |
962 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet Smith is to be married to Robert Martin. Emma is somewhat disappointed by Harriet's decision, as Mr. Knightley suspects, but he reminds her that Harriet will be happy and secure. When Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax visit Highbury, Emma realizes that Mr. Knightley was the most suitable choice for her. | [
"Time passed on. A few more to-morrows, and the party from London would\nbe arriving. It was an alarming change; and Emma was thinking of it one\nmorning, as what must bring a great deal to agitate and grieve her, when\nMr. Knightley came in, and distressing thoughts were put by. After the\nfirst chat of pleasure h... |
963 | 158_volume_3,_chapter_55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet writes to Emma about Robert Martin and admits that she was silly to consider Mr. Knightley. Harriet has learned the truth about her parents: her father was a respectable tradesman who could provide for her stay at Mrs. Goddard's school. Emma meets Robert Martin and becomes convinced that Harriet will be happy w... | [
"If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a\nmomentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her\nattachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man from\nunbiased inclination, it was not long that she had to suffer from the\nrecurrence of any such uncerta... |
914 | 158_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Let's start off by establishing some facts: at almost twenty-one years old, Emma Woodhouse is pretty perfect. She's pretty, rich, and the most popular girl in town. Emma lives with her father in the largest house in town. Noticing a pattern here? We meet Emma in her home thinking about the recent marriage of her govern... | [
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home\nand happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of\nexistence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very\nlittle to distress or vex her.",
"She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate,\n... |
915 | 158_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We meet Mr. Weston, the former colonel who just stole Mrs. Weston from the Woodhouses . Weston's an all-around good guy - a great soldier, a gentleman, and a property owner. Let us emphasize that again: he's a good guy. Got it? As if that weren't enough, we also meet Mr. Weston's son, Frank Churchill. Why isn't he Fran... | [
"Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family,\nwhich for the last two or three generations had been rising into\ngentility and property. He had received a good education, but, on\nsucceeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed\nfor any of the more homely pursuits i... |
916 | 158_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter in which we learn of the social life of the Woodhouses: even though Mr. Woodhouse is about as persnickety as it gets, he still throws regular dinner and card parties - which Emma, of course, arranges. For a small town, Highbury has a pretty elaborate set of social hierarchies, and we learn all about it here... | [
"Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. He liked very much to\nhave his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from\nhis long residence at Hartfield, and his good nature, from his fortune,\nhis house, and his daughter, he could command the visits of his\nown little circle, in a great m... |
917 | 158_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma begins "improving" Harriet in earnest. As Emma decides, Harriet is the perfect friend - she needs all the help she can get. Case-in-point: Harriet's thrilled about her recent visit to a friend's farm, where she meets the stable farmer, Mr. Martin. Emma, of course, is not so thrilled to hear about her friend's expl... | [
"Harriet Smith's intimacy at Hartfield was soon a settled thing. Quick\nand decided in her ways, Emma lost no time in inviting, encouraging, and\ntelling her to come very often; and as their acquaintance increased, so\ndid their satisfaction in each other. As a walking companion, Emma had\nvery early foreseen how u... |
918 | 158_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley and Mrs. Weston get together to talk about Emma. Get used to this - talking about Emma is one of the town's favorite pastimes. Knightley's convinced that Harriet is bad for Emma. After all, how many more ego boosts does Emma actually need? Begin the Emma love-fest: Knightley and Mrs. Weston hash over how ... | [
"\"I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston,\" said Mr.\nKnightley, \"of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I\nthink it a bad thing.\"",
"\"A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?--why so?\"",
"\"I think they will neither of them do the other any good.\"",
"\"You surpr... |
919 | 158_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | How to win Mr. Elton's heart for Harriet? Not to worry - Emma's got a plan. She decides to paint Harriet's portrait and invite Mr. Elton over to view the work-in-progress . Emma pulls out her oeuvre . She's never finished a piece in her life, but everyone's convinced that they'd be masterpieces if they were ever comple... | [
"Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fancy a proper\ndirection and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good\npurpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr.\nElton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners;\nand as she had no hesitation in ... |
920 | 158_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet receives a love letter from our farmer-friend, Mr. Martin. Emma, of course, is outraged on her friend's behalf. How could Mr. Martin dream of lowering Harriet to his social station? Unable to decide how to respond to the letter, Harriet turns to Emma for advice. After reading Mr. Martin's letter, Emma is secret... | [
"The very day of Mr. Elton's going to London produced a fresh occasion\nfor Emma's services towards her friend. Harriet had been at Hartfield,\nas usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home to\nreturn again to dinner: she returned, and sooner than had been\ntalked of, and with an agitated, hurrie... |
921 | 158_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet basically moves into Hartfield. She even gets her own bedroom in Hartfield, for the days when she doesn't manage to make it back to her school. In case we haven't mentioned it, education doesn't seem to be Harriet's biggest priority. You probably figured that out on your own, huh? Mr. Knightley comes to Hartfie... | [
"Harriet slept at Hartfield that night. For some weeks past she had been\nspending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have\na bed-room appropriated to herself; and Emma judged it best in every\nrespect, safest and kindest, to keep her with them as much as possible\njust at present. She was obli... |
922 | 158_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma's plans to make Harriet smarter flop - but they do manage to make lots and lots of self-help lists! Instead of reading the classics, the two decide to make a riddle-book. OK, OK, it sounds geeky - but it was pretty hot in the nineteenth century. Think of it as a mix CD - or an iPod "Greatest Hits" list. They spend... | [
"Mr. Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with\nherself. He was so much displeased, that it was longer than usual before\nhe came to Hartfield again; and when they did meet, his grave looks\nshewed that she was not forgiven. She was sorry, but could not repent.\nOn the contrary, her plans an... |
923 | 158_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma takes Harriet with her on a visit a poor family. They pause to swoon over Mr. Elton's house. After congratulating Harriet on her future prospects, Emma declares that she never plans to marry. After all, she's got the best house in town already - what more could she want? It's not like she'll ever fall in love! Har... | [
"Though now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to\nprevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise; and on the\nmorrow, Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who\nlived a little way out of Highbury.",
"Their road to this detached cottage was down Vicarage Lane, a la... |
924 | 158_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma's sister and her husband arrive from London with several baby Knightleys in tow. Our narrator presents John Knightley as a smart gentleman and Isabella as a warm wife. Luckily, they're married. It all evens out. In case we haven't mentioned it, Mr. Woodhouse is something of a sympathetic hypochondriac - he's convi... | [
"Mr. Elton must now be left to himself. It was no longer in Emma's power\nto superintend his happiness or quicken his measures. The coming of her\nsister's family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipation,\nand then in reality, it became henceforth her prime object of interest;\nand during the ten days o... |
925 | 158_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma's a bit worried about Mr. Knightley coming over for dinner - they haven't spoken since their fight four chapters ago. Luckily, she's holding a baby when Mr. Knightley enters. Everybody loves babies. Emma and Mr. Knightley make up over their niece . Isabella and her father enter into a long conversation about docto... | [
"Mr. Knightley was to dine with them--rather against the inclination of\nMr. Woodhouse, who did not like that any one should share with him in\nIsabella's first day. Emma's sense of right however had decided it;\nand besides the consideration of what was due to each brother, she had\nparticular pleasure, from the c... |
926 | 158_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Westons host a Christmas Eve dinner to which all our friends are invited . Harriet, unfortunately, comes down with a cold at the last minute and can't make it. The afternoon of the party, Emma and Mr. John Knightley run into Mr. Elton on the road. Emma tries to persuade Mr. Elton to stay home. After all, with Harri... | [
"There could hardly be a happier creature in the world than Mrs. John\nKnightley, in this short visit to Hartfield, going about every morning\namong her old acquaintance with her five children, and talking over what\nshe had done every evening with her father and sister. She had nothing\nto wish otherwise, but that... |
927 | 158_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Snow starts to fall as they all drive to the Westons'. At the party, Mr. Elton seems strangely excited . But let's stick with excited for now... As cocktail conversation commences, everybody seems to be talking about Frank Churchill. Remember him? He's Mr. Weston's son. Emma indulges in a few fantasies about Frank . Ap... | [
"Some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they\nwalked into Mrs. Weston's drawing-room;--Mr. Elton must compose his\njoyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley disperse his ill-humour. Mr.\nElton must smile less, and Mr. John Knightley more, to fit them for the\nplace.--Emma only might be as nature ... |
964 | 158_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After dinner, Mr. Woodhouse is itching to get home - it's all Emma can do to keep him in his seat. The gentlemen leave to smoke on their own while the women wait in the parlor . Mr. Elton bursts back into the parlor and cozies up to Emma and Mrs. Weston in a very, very strange manner. He sits on a loveseat with them an... | [
"Mr. Woodhouse was soon ready for his tea; and when he had drank his\ntea he was quite ready to go home; and it was as much as his three\ncompanions could do, to entertain away his notice of the lateness of\nthe hour, before the other gentlemen appeared. Mr. Weston was chatty and\nconvivial, and no friend to early ... |
965 | 158_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In which Emma beats herself up for being so, so wrong. How could she have imagined such an unsuitable match for Harriet? And how could she have missed the fact that Mr. Elton wanted her, not her friend? Now that Emma realizes how blind she's been, she vows never to match-make again. Of course, she could set Harriet up ... | [
"The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think\nand be miserable.--It was a wretched business indeed!--Such an overthrow\nof every thing she had been wishing for!--Such a development of every\nthing most unwelcome!--Such a blow for Harriet!--that was the worst\nof all. Every part of it bro... |
966 | 158_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the snows stop, Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley head back to London. Mr. Woodhouse mourns for their loss. Emma walks over to Mrs. Goddard's, where Harriet is staying. She decides that it's time to break the bad news to Harriet - who takes it surprisingly badly. Maybe she actually has feelings, after all? Harriet goes... | [
"Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley were not detained long at Hartfield. The\nweather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr.\nWoodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay\nbehind with all her children, was obliged to see the whole party\nset off, and return to his lamentations ... |
967 | 158_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Moving on... Frank Churchill still hasn't shown up in Highbury. Luckily, this means that Emma can fantasize about him some more. In fact, the more she thinks about Frank, the more she becomes convinced that he's perfect for her. They share the same friends, they have the same interests . Of course, she's never met the ... | [
"Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew near, Mrs.\nWeston's fears were justified in the arrival of a letter of excuse. For\nthe present, he could not be spared, to his \"very great mortification\nand regret; but still he looked forward with the hope of coming to\nRandalls at no distant perio... |
928 | 158_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma decides to pay a long-overdue visit to the Bateses. She'd go more often, but...well, they're just so poor. And, of course, there's the fact that Miss Bates only stops talking to gasp for air. As she and Harriet walk to the Bateses' house, Emma feels a slight tinge of guilt: Mr. Knightley's tried to lecture her abo... | [
"Emma and Harriet had been walking together one morning, and, in Emma's\nopinion, had been talking enough of Mr. Elton for that day. She could\nnot think that Harriet's solace or her own sins required more; and\nshe was therefore industriously getting rid of the subject as they\nreturned;--but it burst out again wh... |
929 | 158_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our narrator gives us all the dirt on Jane Fairfax. Her parents died when she was a baby, but a friend of her father's offered to raise her. He's got a daughter that's Jane's age. Jane is, apparently, perfect. She's prettier, smarter, and all-around better than her friend Miss Campbell. For some reason, however, Miss C... | [
"Jane Fairfax was an orphan, the only child of Mrs. Bates's youngest\ndaughter.",
"The marriage of Lieut. Fairfax of the ----regiment of infantry,\nand Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope\nand interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy\nremembrance of him dying in action... |
930 | 158_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day after the party, Mr. Knightley comes over to Hartfield. He and Emma begin discussing Jane Fairfax: Mr. Knightley admires her perfection, Emma doesn't. Mr. Woodhouse frets about Mrs. Bates . Mr. Woodhouse decides to send her a bit of the hog he just slaughtered. Emma tells him she's already sent half of it to th... | [
"Emma could not forgive her;--but as neither provocation nor resentment\nwere discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had\nseen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was\nexpressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with\nMr. Woodhouse, his approbation... |
931 | 158_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The soon-to-be-Mrs. Elton is the talk of the town. Somehow all the gossips know all her dirty little secrets, even though she hasn't yet set foot in Highbury. Miss Augusta Hawkins has PS10,000 to her name . Hearing about Miss Hawkins, Emma decides that she's really no better than Harriet in anything but her pocketbook.... | [
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting\nsituations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of\nbeing kindly spoken of.",
"A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in\nHighbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have\n... |
932 | 158_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma hatches a plan: she'll drive Harriet out to the Martins' farm, wait fifteen minutes, and then drive back to pick her up. This way, Harriet can get all the excitement of a new visit - and there will be no chance that she'll slip back into her old friendships. Everything goes according to plan. Harriet seems delight... | [
"Small heart had Harriet for visiting. Only half an hour before her\nfriend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her\nto the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to _The Rev.\nPhilip Elton, White-Hart, Bath_, was to be seen under the operation of\nbeing lifted into the butcher's ca... |
933 | 158_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank and Mrs. Weston show back up at Hartfield early the next morning. Emma joins them as they walk into town. Frank seems charmed by everything in the town - and most of all the delightful Miss Woodhouse. Excited by the handsome new man, Emma starts up a witty conversation about Jane Fairfax, insinuating that she was... | [
"The next morning brought Mr. Frank Churchill again. He came with Mrs.\nWeston, to whom and to Highbury he seemed to take very cordially. He had\nbeen sitting with her, it appeared, most companionably at home, till\nher usual hour of exercise; and on being desired to chuse their walk,\nimmediately fixed on Highbury... |
934 | 158_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma's love affair with Frank is a bit shaken when she hears that he's driven all the way to London just to get his hair cut. Sure, he's rich and can do whatever he wants...but he wants to do this? London's a long way away. And it's expensive. And, well, more than a little silly. The Westons and Emma have a long talk a... | [
"Emma's very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the\nfollowing day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have\nhis hair cut. A sudden freak seemed to have seized him at breakfast, and\nhe had sent for a chaise and set off, intending to return to dinner,\nbut with no more important v... |
935 | 158_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank returns from London with a spiffy new haircut. Emma spends some time thinking about the relative virtues of Frank and Mr. Knightley. There's no way that Mr. Knightley would ever do anything as silly as traveling to get his hair cut. Even if Mr. Knightley did do something silly, he'd do it better. And he'd know th... | [
"Frank Churchill came back again; and if he kept his father's dinner\nwaiting, it was not known at Hartfield; for Mrs. Weston was too anxious\nfor his being a favourite with Mr. Woodhouse, to betray any imperfection\nwhich could be concealed.",
"He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a ve... |
936 | 158_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Emma thinks about the party the next morning, she almost regrets spreading rumors about Jane . It doesn't quite seem like the proper thing to have done. Emma walks with Harriet to town. They meet Frank and Mrs. Weston on the way. There's a funny scene involving Harriet picking out a dress. Read the book to find out ... | [
"Emma did not repent her condescension in going to the Coles. The visit\nafforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she\nmight be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must\nbe amply repaid in the splendour of popularity. She must have delighted\nthe Coles--worthy people... |
937 | 158_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All of the company gathered in the Bates house speculate on who could have given Jane such a nice piano. After all, a piano is a pretty major gift! The general consensus, that Colonel Campbell sent it to his ward, is one that Emma secretly rejects. Emma notices Frank smiling knowingly at her across the room. Perhaps he... | [
"The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was\ntranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment,\nslumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near\nher, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax,\nstanding with her back to them, intent on her... |
938 | 158_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our narrator spends a good chunk of time reflecting upon dancing and its effects on young people. It's actually quite funny - we recommend you check it out! The upshot of this meditation is that Frank decides to have a ball of his own. Emma heads over to Randalls to help Frank plan the ball. There's only one problem: R... | [
"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been\nknown of young people passing many, many months successively, without\nbeing at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue\neither to body or mind;--but when a beginning is made--when the\nfelicities of rapid motion have once b... |
939 | 158_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley seems much less excited about the ball than Emma - although Emma observes that he's probably just old and grumpy. Unfortunately, a few days before the ball, Frank's aunt orders him to come back to her house. In case we have mentioned it, Frank's aunt has very well-timed illnesses. They seem to crop up whe... | [
"One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely\nsatisfactory to Emma--its being fixed for a day within the granted\nterm of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston's\nconfidence, she could not think it so very impossible that the\nChurchills might not allow their nephew... |
940 | 158_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In which Emma thinks a lot about love: OK, so Emma's decided that she's in love. Who wouldn't be? Frank is obviously meant for her. And he's cute. And he will be rich, if the old aunt will ever get around to dying. Why, then, isn't she more excited? There are no butterflies in her stomach. After considering her state f... | [
"Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being in love. Her ideas only varied as to the how much. At first, she thought it was a good deal; and afterwards, but little. She had great pleasure in hearing Frank Churchill talked of; and, for his sake, greater pleasure than ever in seeing Mr. and Mrs. Weston; she wa... |
941 | 158_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Elton arrives in town. Emma immediately dislikes her. Her clothes are garish and pretentious - and her manners match her clothes. Even Mr. Elton's manners seem to have changed. He's not the perfect gentleman anymore. He simpers over his wife. Harriet doesn't seem to notice how coarse the new Mrs. Elton is - she's ... | [
"Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be\ninterrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and\nit must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to\nsettle whether she were very pretty indeed, or only rather pretty, or\nnot pretty at all.",
"Emma had f... |
942 | 158_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | More of the Eltons: Emma notices that the Eltons go out of their way to snub Harriet. This makes Emma hate them just a little bit more. Mrs. Elton takes a liking to Jane Fairfax. She tells Emma that "we" must bring her out into the world more. Emma wants no part of a "we" that includes Mrs. Elton. Or Jane Fairfax, for ... | [
"Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill\nopinion of Mrs. Elton. Her observation had been pretty correct. Such as\nMrs. Elton appeared to her on this second interview, such she appeared\nwhenever they met again,--self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant,\nand ill-bred. She had a ... |
943 | 158_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even though Emma hates Mrs. Elton, manners are manners. We've talked about this before, haven't we? Everyone has to throw a dinner party for a new bride. That's just how it is. Emma throws a dinner party for the Eltons. She invites Harriet because she needs to have eight people in order to have an even table. Harriet b... | [
"Every body in and about Highbury who had ever visited Mr. Elton, was\ndisposed to pay him attention on his marriage. Dinner-parties and\nevening-parties were made for him and his lady; and invitations flowed\nin so fast that she had soon the pleasure of apprehending they were\nnever to have a disengaged day.",
"... |
944 | 158_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After dinner, Emma notices with a bit of dismay that the conversation seems to break into two distinct parties. Even her best efforts as a hostess don't detach Mrs. Elton from Jane's side. Prodded by Mrs. Elton into talking about her future, Jane says that she won't be returning to live with the Campbells once they ret... | [
"When the ladies returned to the drawing-room after dinner, Emma found it\nhardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;--with so\nmuch perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross\nJane Fairfax and slight herself. She and Mrs. Weston were obliged to\nbe almost always either talki... |
968 | 158_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Weston thinks that it's only polite to tell Mrs. Elton how pleased he will be to introduce her to Frank. Mrs. Elton immediately assumes that Mr. Weston is paying her a special compliment. Mr. Weston declares that Frank's aunt is a "fine lady." Not willing to be outdone, Mrs. Elton asserts that her sister is also a ... | [
"\"I hope I shall soon have the pleasure of introducing my son to you,\"\nsaid Mr. Weston.",
"Mrs. Elton, very willing to suppose a particular compliment intended her\nby such a hope, smiled most graciously.",
"\"You have heard of a certain Frank Churchill, I presume,\" he\ncontinued--\"and know him to be my so... |
945 | 158_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Knowing that Frank plans to come back to Highbury soon causes Emma to think seriously about her affection for Frank. As soon as she starts thinking about it, though, she realizes that she doesn't really have any affection for Frank. He's a great friend, sure, but he's just not the upstanding gentleman that she imagined... | [
"A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the\nnature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. She\nwas soon convinced that it was not for herself she was feeling at all\napprehensive or embarrassed; it was for him. Her own attachment had\nreally subsided into a mere nothing;... |
946 | 158_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In which the Westons have a ball: Mr. Weston particularly asks Emma to arrive at the ball early. As a close, close friend, he wants her to look over the arrangements before the ball starts. Once Emma arrives, however, she realizes that Mr. Weston seems to have many close, close friends. Just about everybody she knows s... | [
"No misfortune occurred, again to prevent the ball. The day approached,\nthe day arrived; and after a morning of some anxious watching, Frank\nChurchill, in all the certainty of his own self, reached Randalls before\ndinner, and every thing was safe.",
"No second meeting had there yet been between him and Emma. T... |
947 | 158_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Emma thinks over the ball the next day, she's satisfied to remember that Mr. Knightley shares her opinion about the Eltons. Even Harriet seems to be getting over Mr. Elton after his snub at the ball. Everything is as perfect as Emma could want it to be: Harriet is no longer in love, Mr. Knightley is not quarrelling ... | [
"This little explanation with Mr. Knightley gave Emma considerable\npleasure. It was one of the agreeable recollections of the ball, which\nshe walked about the lawn the next morning to enjoy.--She was extremely\nglad that they had come to so good an understanding respecting the\nEltons, and that their opinions of ... |
948 | 158_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet shows up at Emma's house with a strange parcel under her arm. She explains that she's ready to give up on Mr. Elton now ! In the box, she's collected trinkets which memorialize her love for him. She's ready to burn it. Surprised, Emma asks Harriet what trinkets she could have collected. Harriet lovingly unwraps... | [
"A very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one\nmorning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down\nand hesitating, thus began:",
"\"Miss Woodhouse--if you are at leisure--I have something that I should\nlike to tell you--a sort of confession to make--and then, you kn... |
949 | 158_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the summer wears on, Mr. Knightley becomes convinced that Frank's relationship with Jane Fairfax is more than meets the eye. He's caught Frank staring at Jane at weird moments. Often. Worried that Frank's attention to Jane might hurt Emma, Mr. Knightley treks over to Hartfield. He doesn't really want to share his su... | [
"In this state of schemes, and hopes, and connivance, June opened upon\nHartfield. To Highbury in general it brought no material change. The\nEltons were still talking of a visit from the Sucklings, and of the use\nto be made of their barouche-landau; and Jane Fairfax was still at her\ngrandmother's; and as the ret... |
950 | 158_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Sucklings are supposed to come to Highbury, but they never show. Mrs. Elton is severely put out. She had planned on showing off her sister to the entire town. Now the summer seems like one long boring stretch of...boringness. Mrs. Elton decides to take matters into her own hands and propose a group outing. She prop... | [
"After being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit from Mr. and Mrs.\nSuckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification\nof hearing that they could not possibly come till the autumn. No such\nimportation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores at\npresent. In the daily interchange of... |
951 | 158_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the exact same crew of people head up to Box Hill. You could think of this party as a nightmare version of day 1 . It's hot, nobody seems very excited about anything, and conversation sort of sucks. They all sit down on a hill, and Emma decides to liven things up a bit. She and Frank start flirting outrag... | [
"They had a very fine day for Box Hill; and all the other outward\ncircumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality, were in\nfavour of a pleasant party. Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating\nsafely between Hartfield and the Vicarage, and every body was in good\ntime. Emma and Harriet went togethe... |
952 | 158_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Making fun of Miss Bates is different than all other times we've read about Emma's mistakes: when she wakes up in the morning, Emma still feels rotten. She wishes, above all, that she could tell Mr. Knightley how sorry she feels. Emma leaves early in the morning to call on Miss Bates. She can't really apologize, but at... | [
"The wretchedness of a scheme to Box Hill was in Emma's thoughts all the evening. How it might be considered by the rest of the party, she could not tell. They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on it with pleasure; but in her view it was a morning more completely misspent, m... |
953 | 158_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma walks slowly home, thinking about Jane's change in fortunes. She's surprised to find Mr. Knightley at home when she arrives. He's sitting beside Harriet. He only meant to stay five minutes - but he's been sitting there for 30. Apparently, he's made a sudden decision to travel to London and visit his brother. Emma ... | [
"Emma's pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted;\nbut on entering the parlour, she found those who must rouse her. Mr.\nKnightley and Harriet had arrived during her absence, and were sitting\nwith her father.--Mr. Knightley immediately got up, and in a manner\ndecidedly graver than usual, said... |
954 | 158_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Weston comes to Hartfield just to ask Emma to come back with him to Randalls. Mrs. Weston has to talk to her - alone. Surprised and frightened, Emma joins him immediately. Mr. Weston's not very good at keeping secrets. He's upset, and he tries to calm Emma down by telling her that it might not be as bad as he think... | [
"One morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill's decease, Emma was\ncalled downstairs to Mr. Weston, who \"could not stay five minutes,\nand wanted particularly to speak with her.\"--He met her at the\nparlour-door, and hardly asking her how she did, in the natural key of\nhis voice, sunk it immediately, to say,... |
955 | 158_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Immediately concerned about Harriet - who's about to be snubbed for the second time - Emma hurries home. As she walks, she thinks about all the things that she could have done differently had she known about the engagement. For one thing, she might have liked Jane much more. And she wouldn't have made fun of her with F... | [
"\"Harriet, poor Harriet!\"--Those were the words; in them lay the\ntormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted\nthe real misery of the business to her. Frank Churchill had behaved very\nill by herself--very ill in many ways,--but it was not so much _his_\nbehaviour as her _own_, which m... |
956 | 158_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma spends a good deal more time re-thinking everything that has happened in the past few months. Now that she might lose Mr. Knightley, Emma understands how much he means to her. It's unthinkable that he might not have her first in his affections, as he has for so long! Moreover, Harriet wouldn't even realize what a ... | [
"Till now that she was threatened with its loss, Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being _first_ with Mr. Knightley, first in interest and affection.--Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found ho... |
957 | 158_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Let us just interject a quick note: Please read this chapter! Please! OK, we're begging now. Please! Ahem. We'll begin again: In the afternoon, the weather clears. Emma wanders in the garden, thinking about her sad, sad future. Suddenly, Mr. Knightley appears. He's returned from London. He's heard about Jane and Frank'... | [
"The weather continued much the same all the following morning; and the same loneliness, and the same melancholy, seemed to reign at Hartfield--but in the afternoon it cleared; the wind changed into a softer quarter; the clouds were carried off; the sun appeared; it was summer again. With all the eagerness which su... |
958 | 158_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our narrator reminds us that one major obstacle to Emma's happiness still exists: her father. Mr. Woodhouse would be devastated if his last daughter left him. Oh, yeah - and also Harriet. First things first: Emma writes a letter to Harriet, explaining all that's happened. That's enough to ruin her day - but luckily, Mr... | [
"What totally different feelings did Emma take back into the house from\nwhat she had brought out!--she had then been only daring to hope for\na little respite of suffering;--she was now in an exquisite flutter of\nhappiness, and such happiness moreover as she believed must still be\ngreater when the flutter should... |
959 | 158_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In fact, Emma remains so convinced by Frank's letter that she shows it to Mr. Knightley. He's about as excited to hear about Frank as he ever was - but he tolerates it for Emma's sake. After Mr. Knightley finishes the letter, he brings up some more important business: how can they get married without making Emma's fath... | [
"This letter must make its way to Emma's feelings. She was obliged, in\nspite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the\njustice that Mrs. Weston foretold. As soon as she came to her own name,\nit was irresistible; every line relating to herself was interesting,\nand almost every line agreeabl... |
960 | 158_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Emma's a bit unsettled by the thought of hurting Harriet, she writes to her immediately. In the letter, she offers to send Harriet to London to stay with Isabella. Apparently Harriet happens to have developed a bad tooth. Isabella loves doctors. It's a match made in heaven. With Harriet gone, Emma can finally ... | [
"It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as\nherself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse was painful enough by\nletter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet!",
"Harriet expressed herself very much as might be supposed, without\nreproaches, or apparent sense of ill-usage; and yet ... |
961 | 158_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Weston has a baby girl . Emma's delighted. As she tells Mr. Knightley, Mrs. Weston will have a chance to try again with a new girl. Of course, Mr. Knightley has to say some things about how loveable Emma is now. Even he admits, though, that she was a pretty spoiled kid. By now, we're sure that many of you are star... | [
"Mrs. Weston's friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the\nsatisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma, it was by\nknowing her to be the mother of a little girl. She had been decided in\nwishing for a Miss Weston. She would not acknowledge that it was with\nany view of making a match for he... |
962 | 158_chapter_54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley comes in one day with news: Harriet is engaged. To Robert Martin. Emma's surprised - but not nearly as unhappy as Mr. Knightley expected. Apparently she's learned some lessons. Mr. Knightley acknowledges that he's learned, too. He doesn't think Harriet a fool anymore. In fact, Robert's upcoming marriage a... | [
"Time passed on. A few more to-morrows, and the party from London would\nbe arriving. It was an alarming change; and Emma was thinking of it one\nmorning, as what must bring a great deal to agitate and grieve her, when\nMr. Knightley came in, and distressing thoughts were put by. After the\nfirst chat of pleasure h... |
963 | 158_chapter_55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet returns from London. She and Emma have a rather strained first meeting - but Harriet is too happy to stay angry long. She marries Robert. Once her father hears that she's getting married, he provides a yearly sum for her. Emma spends a few minutes thinking about what sort of match she once imagined for Mr. Knig... | [
"If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a\nmomentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her\nattachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man from\nunbiased inclination, it was not long that she had to suffer from the\nrecurrence of any such uncerta... |
914 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself. The narrator opens the novel by introducing us to Emma Woodhouse, a girl endowed with "some of the best blessings of existence," including good looks, intelligence, ... | [
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home\nand happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of\nexistence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very\nlittle to distress or vex her.",
"She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate,\n... |
915 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator recounts Mr. Weston's history. His first marriage was to a woman named Miss Churchill, who came from a higher class than his. They had a son, named Frank, but the marriage was overshadowed by the disapproval of Mrs. Weston's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Churchill. When Mrs. Weston died after thr... | [
"Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family,\nwhich for the last two or three generations had been rising into\ngentility and property. He had received a good education, but, on\nsucceeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed\nfor any of the more homely pursuits i... |
916 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Woodhouses give a small dinner party, to which they invite other members of their social circle: the widow Mrs. Bates; her single, middle-aged daughter, Miss Bates; and Mrs. Goddard, the mistress of the local boarding school. Mrs. Goddard brings one of her boarders, Harriet Smith, a girl whose parentage is unknown.... | [
"Mr. Woodhouse was fond of society in his own way. He liked very much to\nhave his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from\nhis long residence at Hartfield, and his good nature, from his fortune,\nhis house, and his daughter, he could command the visits of his\nown little circle, in a great m... |
917 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Harriet strike up an immediate intimacy as Harriet replaces Mrs. Weston as Emma's companion on her habitual walks. Emma remains unimpressed with Harriet's intelligence but appreciates her willingness to be guided. Emma encourages Harriet to tell everything about herself, and their conversation soon centers on ... | [
"Harriet Smith's intimacy at Hartfield was soon a settled thing. Quick\nand decided in her ways, Emma lost no time in inviting, encouraging, and\ntelling her to come very often; and as their acquaintance increased, so\ndid their satisfaction in each other. As a walking companion, Emma had\nvery early foreseen how u... |
918 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley and Mrs. Weston converse about Emma's new friendship with Harriet. Knightley believes that the friendship is dangerous for both parties. Harriet's flattery, Knightley suspects, will reinforce Emma's self-regard, while Emma's influence will injure Harriet's happiness, because Harriet "will grow just refine... | [
"\"I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston,\" said Mr.\nKnightley, \"of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I\nthink it a bad thing.\"",
"\"A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?--why so?\"",
"\"I think they will neither of them do the other any good.\"",
"\"You surpr... |
919 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma continues to point out Mr. Elton's finer qualities to Harriet and is convinced that he is already in love with her friend. Mr. Elton praises the graces that Harriet has gained in Emma's company, and he quickly seconds Emma's idea to paint a watercolor portrait of Harriet. As Emma paints, Mr. Elton is only too atte... | [
"Emma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fancy a proper\ndirection and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good\npurpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr.\nElton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners;\nand as she had no hesitation in ... |
920 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harriet receives a letter from Mr. Martin proposing marriage and goes directly to Emma to seek advice. Emma acts as if there is obviously no doubt that Harriet should not accept, and she proceeds to offer Harriet advice about the wording of her refusal. When it becomes clear that Harriet is doubtful about her answer, E... | [
"The very day of Mr. Elton's going to London produced a fresh occasion\nfor Emma's services towards her friend. Harriet had been at Hartfield,\nas usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home to\nreturn again to dinner: she returned, and sooner than had been\ntalked of, and with an agitated, hurrie... |
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