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921 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With Harriet at Mrs. Goddard's preparing for an extended visit to Hartfield, Mr. Knightley and Emma have the opportunity for a lengthy conversation about Harriet and Mr. Martin. Knightley reveals that Mr. Martin has consulted him about proposing to Harriet, and Mr. Knightley makes it clear that he supports the match. E... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Harriet have been collecting riddles into a scrapbook, and when Mr. Elton returns from London with the framed portrait of Harriet, he contributes one. Emma immediately decodes the riddle and sees that its answer is the word "courtship. She translates the riddle for Harriet, who could not solve it herself, but ... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Harriet make a charitable visit to a poor family near Mr. Elton's vicarage. On the way, Harriet expresses her surprise that Emma has not married, and Emma explains her resolution to remain single. The poor family they assist engages their compassion, but soon the girls' thoughts turn to Mr. Elton, who meets th... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley and their children arrive at Hartfield and temporarily occupy all of Emma's attention. Mr. Woodhouse and Isabella commiserate over losing Mrs. Weston, and there is speculation about whether Mr. Weston's son, Frank Churchill, will make his visit. Isabella is like her father in both tenderness... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Knightley comes to dinner at Hartfield, and though he and Emma still disagree about Harriet, they reconcile. Knightley tells Emma that Mr. Martin has been terribly disappointed by Harriet's rejection. Isabella is filled in on all of the latest news from Highbury. She inquires after Jane Fairfax, Miss Bates's niece,... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Woodhouses and Knightleys are invited to the Westons' for Christmas Eve dinner. Harriet and Mr. Elton are also included, but Harriet comes down with a sore throat and is forced to miss the gathering. Emma meets Mr. Elton while visiting Harriet and is pleased by his attentions to her friend, but she remains puzzled ... | [
"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. | Entering the party, Emma attempts to put Mr. Elton's strange behavior out of her mind, but his constant hovering presence makes her worry that Mr. John Knightley's suggestion that Mr. Elton cares for her may be correct. Meanwhile, Mr. Weston announces that Frank Churchill is due to visit in early January. Emma feels so... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Elton joins Emma in the drawing room and displeases her by acting more concerned with her health than with Harriet's. John Knightley's report that it has begun snowing leads to a small crisis, and Mr. Woodhouse and Isabella are beside themselves with worry about traveling the three-quarters of a mile home. Mr. Knig... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first error. was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. Back at Hartfield after her ride with Mr. Elton, Emma plunges into self-recrimination as she looks back over the past weeks. Her biggest regret concerns Harriet, whose feelings for Elton, Emma realizes, are due mos... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley return to London, and Mr. Elton writes Mr. Woodhouse to announce that he will spend the next few weeks in the town of Bath. Relieved, Emma immediately visits Harriet to explain what has happened. Emma's sense of her own failures, and Harriet's modesty and sweetness in taking the news, give E... | [
"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_volume_1,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank Churchill does not make his expected visit, to the disappointment of Mrs. Weston in particular. Emma, preoccupied with her other worries, does not mind, but she feels she must express disappointment so that she will appear her usual self. Her warmth in doing so gets her into an argument with Mr. Knightley about t... | [
"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_volume_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During a walk, Emma has little success turning Harriet's thoughts from Mr. Elton and therefore decides that they should call on Mrs. and Miss Bates, a duty that Emma usually shuns. During their visit, they are forced to hear about Mr. Elton and his travels, and though Emma has tried to time her visit so as to avoid hea... | [
"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. | Jane's history is given, starting from how, at age three, she became an orphan after her father was killed in battle and her mother died of consumption and grief. Jane lived with her aunt and grandmother in Highbury until she was eight years old. Then, a friend of her father's, Colonel Campbell, took an interest in her... | [
"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. | Just as Mr. Knightley is about to give Emma some news, the Bateses arrive with Jane to thank the Woodhouses for the hindquarter of pork they have sent; they manage to precede Knightley in divulging that Mr. Elton is to marry a Miss Hawkins. Emma is caught off guard, and Mr. Knightley's looks suggest he knows something ... | [
"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. | In Highbury, there is great speculation about Miss Hawkins, Mr. Elton's fiancee. Mr. Elton returns to the village long enough to confirm the rumors that his bride-to-be is beautiful, accomplished, and of some fortune. Emma is relieved that his marriage will ease the awkwardness of his return to their social circle, but... | [
"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. | Emma takes Harriet to visit the Martins. Ahead of time, they agree that Emma is to return and retrieve Harriet after fifteen minutes. Harriet has a friendly and emotional visit with Mr. Martin's mother and sister, but when the visit is cut short, it is clear the Martins understand that they have been slighted. Though p... | [
"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 Hartfield the next day, and Emma is pleased by Frank's warmth toward his stepmother. He seems genuinely interested in everything about Highbury as the three walk about the village, especially in the sites that are meaningful to his father. Encountering an unused ballroom, he sugges... | [
"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 injured when he makes a day trip to London just to have his hair cut. Though Emma does not feel inclined to give up her vow to remain single, she decides that Frank is pleasing enough that she does not mind being associated with him in other people's minds. Mr. Knightley thinks... | [
"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. | Emma arrives at the Coles' party behind Mr. Knightley. Because Knightley usually walks, Emma is surprised that he has come in his carriage. At dinner, it is revealed that Jane Fairfax has received the mysterious gift of a pianoforte. People assume the piano is from Colonel Campbell, but Emma tells Frank she suspects 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_volume_2,_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma is thoroughly pleased with her evening at the Coles, but she is uncertain about the appropriateness of telling Frank about her suspicions about Jane or acknowledging the superiority of Jane's musical abilities. At the Coles' party, Harriet heard that Mr. Martin had dined with the Cox family, and there is a rumor t... | [
"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. | Emma enters the Bates' sitting room and finds Frank occupied with fixing Mrs. Bates's glasses and Jane seated at the piano. Frank asks Jane questions about how she imagines the piano came to her, and his comment, "True affection only could have prompted it," makes Jane blush. Believing that Frank is teasing Jane unkind... | [
"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. | While the Woodhouses are visiting Randalls, Frank and Emma work on planning a ball so they can finish the dancing inaugurated at the Coles'. They decide the room at Randalls is too small. Mr. Woodhouse privately tells Mrs. Weston his concern that Frank is so thoughtless about opening and shutting doors that he exposes ... | [
"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. | Emma is worried that Frank's aunt, Mrs. Churchill, will refuse Frank permission to stay on for the ball, which is scheduled for a few days after his visit is scheduled to end. To everyone's relief, he receives this permission. Only Mr. Knightley refuses to look forward to the ball: he does not seem interested in dancin... | [
"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 imagines the course that her and Frank's love affair will run. In her mind, her fantasy always ends with her refusing Frank. She believes she loves him, but not so much that her happiness depends upon him, and that he loves her, but that his feelings are probably changeable. She reads his first letter to Mrs. West... | [
"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. | Mr. Elton returns with his bride, and Emma decides that she and Harriet should visit the newlyweds early on in order to reestablish normal social relations. In this first meeting and shortly thereafter Emma reserves judgment on Mrs. Elton, and attributes Mr. Elton's lack of ease to the awkwardness of the situation. 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. | Emma continues to dislike Mrs. Elton, who, noting Emma's reserve, begins to return the sentiment. Emma assumes that Mr. Elton has told his wife something of the unfortunate episode with her and Harriet, to whom the Eltons are especially rude. Mrs. Elton takes on Jane Fairfax as her project, attempting to bring her out ... | [
"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. | Fulfilling a social obligation, Emma plans a dinner party for Mrs. Elton. Harriet asks to be excused from attending, which gives Emma the opportunity to ease her conscience regarding Jane Fairfax, who, at Harriet's announced absence, is promptly invited to fill the empty eighth seat. Mr. John Knightley is also included... | [
"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. | The women gather in the drawing room after dinner, and Mrs. Elton pursues the subject of letter-retrieval with Jane. She also insists on helping Jane find a governess position, though Jane explains that she will not seek a place until after she sees the Campbells in midsummer. The men come in, and Mr. Weston, who has b... | [
"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_volume_2,_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Weston and Mrs. Elton have a long-winded conversation in which they pursue comically different purposes. Mrs. Elton fishes for compliments and goes on about Maple Grove, the estate where her wealthy brother and sister-in-law live. Mr. Weston talks about Frank and explains the illness of Frank's aunt , Mrs. Churchil... | [
"\"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_volume_3,_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma thinks about her agitation upon hearing of Frank's impending arrival and decides that she feels such apprehension more on his behalf than her own--her attachment to him is not very strong. When she sees him again, he is friendly and spirited but visits for only fifteen minutes. Frank's short visit convinces Emma t... | [
"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. | The day of the ball arrives. Emma is invited by Mr. Weston to come early and give her opinion on the arrangements, and she believes that this opportunity will give some privacy to her second meeting with Frank, who will be with his father. But Emma is not the only one of Mr. Weston's "favourites" that he has entreated ... | [
"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. | Emma looks back on her talk with Mr. Knightley at the ball with pleasure, and she rejoices that the Eltons' rudeness has cured Harriet of her infatuation with Mr. Elton. Suddenly, Frank appears with Harriet, fainting, on his arm. When revived, Harriet tells the story of how she was walking with a friend, Miss Bickerton... | [
"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 comes to tell Emma that her infatuation with Mr. Elton has passed and to relinquish the trinkets she has kept to remember him by. First, she shows Emma a bit of court-plaster that she had lent to Mr. Elton when he cut himself. He had used what he needed but discarded the rest, which Harriet then kept. Emma feel... | [
"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 begins to suspect that there is some secret understanding between Frank and Jane. During a walk with Emma, Harriet, Mr. and Mrs. Weston, Frank, Jane, and Miss Bates, Knightley witnesses a strange exchange. Frank asks Mrs. Weston if anything has come of Mr. Perry's plan to buy a carriage. She has no idea w... | [
"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. | An outing to Box Hill is planned, but it has to be postponed because of a lame horse. Mr. Knightley half-jokingly suggests that the party come to his estate instead. Mrs. Elton seizes upon the idea, and Knightley has to be firm to prevent her from planning all the details. Meanwhile, the lame horse heals, and it is dec... | [
"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. | How could she have been so brutal. to Miss Bates. And how suffer him to leave her without saying one word of common kindness. The Box Hill trip is not a success. Mr. and Mrs. Elton keep to themselves; Mr. Knightley, Miss Bates, and Jane form a second exclusive party; and Emma stays with Harriet and Frank. Emma is disap... | [
"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. | On reflection, Emma decides that the Box Hill party was a disaster. Still feeling horrible about her treatment of Miss Bates, Emma soothes her conscience by visiting the Bateses first thing the following morning. Miss Bates's humility and kindness are a further reproach to Emma's bad behavior. During Emma's visit, Jane... | [
"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. | Emma returns to Hartfield to discover that Mr. Knightley and Harriet have arrived in her absence. Knightley is about to depart for London to visit John and Isabella. His hastiness surprises Emma. Mr. Woodhouse inquires about Emma's visit with the Bateses, and Emma blushes and exchanges a glance with Knightley. She beli... | [
"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 arrives to escort Emma to see Mrs. Weston--clearly something is amiss. Assured that Mrs. Weston is well, Emma's first concern is for Isabella's family and for Mr. Knightley in London, but Mr. Weston assures her that the news does not involve them. At Randalls, Emma is greeted by Mrs. Weston, who explains tha... | [
"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. | It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself. Emma is filled with concern for Harriet. She is angrier at herself than she is at Frank, because she believes that she should have discouraged Harriet's attachment to him. Jane's behavior since her arrival in Highbury is ... | [
"\"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 rethinks all of the events of the past months. She realizes that it has always been important to her to be "first" with Mr. Knightley and that he has always had special concern for her, but she cannot believe he could return her feelings, especially when he has just been so angry with her about her rudeness to Mis... | [
"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. | Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised. Emma goes for a walk in the garden. To her surprise, Mr. Knightley joins her. He has just returned from London. She worries that Knightley will confess his feelings for Harriet, and she... | [
"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 can barely conceal her feelings as she and Mr. Knightley join her father for tea. That night, Emma lies awake worrying about Harriet and her father. She decides she will write a letter to Harriet explaining what has happened and arrange for Harriet to visit Isabella in London to give both of them some time to adju... | [
"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. | Emma, in her own happiness, cannot help but forgive Frank. When Knightley comes to her, she shares the letter with him. He reads the letter, telling Emma his impressions as he goes along, and he is less softened than she but willing to admit that Frank has some good qualities. He and Emma discuss her father, and he agr... | [
"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 agrees to Emma's plan to send her to London on the pretense that she needs to see a dentist, which satisfies Emma since she does not want to hurt Harriet with news of Emma and Mr. Knightley's engagement. Emma decides not to tell her father of her engagement until Mrs. Weston, who is pregnant, has given birth to... | [
"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 safely delivers a baby girl, much to Emma's delight. Mr. Knightley reminisces about how headstrong Emma was when she was a child. She expresses gratitude that he so often corrected her mistakes, and he asserts that she would have done just as well without him. Emma is grieved that she cannot speak more open... | [
"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. | Mr. Knightley has news for Emma: Harriet is to marry Robert Martin. Knightley had sent Mr. Martin to London with a package for his brother while Harriet was there, and Mr. Martin began to spend time with the family. Knightley worries that Emma is upset, but in fact she is thrilled, amazed, and amused at Harriet's rapid... | [
"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 returns from London, and Emma is glad to see how completely she has recovered from her infatuation with Knightley. It is revealed that Harriet's father is a tradesman, a respectable person, but not the aristocrat that Emma had predicted. Emma receives Mr. Martin at Hartfield, but realizes that her friendship wi... | [
"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. | CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES INTRODUCTORY NOTE When Emma was published in 1815, it had three volumes. Each volume had chapters starting from number one. Volumes one and two had eighteen chapters, and the third volume had nineteen chapters. Modern editions of Emma are published as a single volume with chapters numbered ... | [
"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. | Frank Churchill is the twenty-three year old son of Mr. Weston from his first marriage. When his mother died when he was a young child, Mr. Weston allowed the boy to be adopted by his mother's childless brother, Mr. Churchill, who is the wealthy owner of the Enscombe Estate in Yorkshire. Mr. Weston took up his family b... | [
"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. | Frank Churchill is the twenty-three year old son of Mr. Weston from his first marriage. When his mother died when he was a young child, Mr. Weston allowed the boy to be adopted by his mother's childless brother, Mr. Churchill, who is the wealthy owner of the Enscombe Estate in Yorkshire. Mr. Weston took up his family b... | [
"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 encourages Harriet to visit Hartfield often and makes the girl her companion for her morning walks. Emma finds that Harriet has a sweet temper, though she is not clever; she is, however, willing to be guided by Emma. During their walks, Emma learns that Harriet has spent two months with the Martins of Abbey Mill F... | [
"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. | Emma encourages Harriet to visit Hartfield often and makes the girl her companion for her morning walks. Emma finds that Harriet has a sweet temper, though she is not clever; she is, however, willing to be guided by Emma. During their walks, Emma learns that Harriet has spent two months with the Martins of Abbey Mill F... | [
"\"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. | Emma deceives herself into believing that she has succeeded in refining Harriet to the point that Elton has a serious interest in her. Although he does compliment Emma for the change she has brought in Harriet's manners, he is really praising Emma, the girl who interests him. Emma is blind to his attraction to her. In ... | [
"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. | Emma deceives herself into believing that she has succeeded in refining Harriet to the point that Elton has a serious interest in her. Although he does compliment Emma for the change she has brought in Harriet's manners, he is really praising Emma, the girl who interests him. Emma is blind to his attraction to her. In ... | [
"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. | Emma allots a bedroom to Harriet at Hartfield, hoping to keep the young girl under her supervision. She does, however, still go to Mrs. Goddard's boarding school. While Harriet is away, Knightley calls on the Woodhouses. When Emma's father goes out for his morning walk, Knightley compliments Emma on Harriet's improved ... | [
"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 allots a bedroom to Harriet at Hartfield, hoping to keep the young girl under her supervision. She does, however, still go to Mrs. Goddard's boarding school. While Harriet is away, Knightley calls on the Woodhouses. When Emma's father goes out for his morning walk, Knightley compliments Emma on Harriet's improved ... | [
"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, accompanied by Harriet, pays a visit to a poor, sick family in Highbury. On the way, they pass along the road that leads to the cottage of Elton. Emma suggests that Harriet will soon be staying in that cottage. Harriet then asks Emma why she is not married and does not desire to marry. Emma explains that she has ... | [
"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... |
969 | 158_chapters_11_-_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isabella and John Knightley, accompanied by their five children, come to Hartfield to spend ten days during the Christmas holidays. The pretty and gentle Isabella proves she is a devoted wife, a doting mother, and a dutiful daughter. She makes certain that the children do not disturb her father. Like Mr. Woodhouse, Isa... | [
"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... |
926 | 158_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Westons invite the Woodhouses, the Knightleys, Elton, and Harriet to a dinner party on Christmas Eve. A day before the dinner, Harriet develops fever and a sore throat. Emma visits Harriet to cheer her up and tells her that she will surely be well the next day to attend the party. On her return, Emma meets Elton, w... | [
"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. | The Westons invite the Woodhouses, the Knightleys, Elton, and Harriet to a dinner party on Christmas Eve. A day before the dinner, Harriet develops fever and a sore throat. Emma visits Harriet to cheer her up and tells her that she will surely be well the next day to attend the party. On her return, Emma meets Elton, w... | [
"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, when tea is served in the drawing room, Elton seats himself on the sofa between Emma and Mrs. Weston. Elton pleads with Mrs. Weston to ask Emma not to visit the sick Harriet until Dr. Perry confirms that Harriet's sore throat is not infectious. Emma is offended and goes to sit with Isabella. John Knightle... | [
"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. | After dinner, when tea is served in the drawing room, Elton seats himself on the sofa between Emma and Mrs. Weston. Elton pleads with Mrs. Weston to ask Emma not to visit the sick Harriet until Dr. Perry confirms that Harriet's sore throat is not infectious. Emma is offended and goes to sit with Isabella. John Knightle... | [
"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... |
970 | 158_chapter_17_-_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isabella and her family leave for London. On the same day, Elton sends a note to Mr. Woodhouse informing him that he is leaving Highbury the next morning to spend a few weeks with his friends in Bath. He apologizes for his inability to come personally to take leave of Mr. Woodhouse. The next day Emma goes to meet Harri... | [
"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 ... |
971 | 158_chapter_19_-_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isabella and her family leave for London. On the same day, Elton sends a note to Mr. Woodhouse informing him that he is leaving Highbury the next morning to spend a few weeks with his friends in Bath. He apologizes for his inability to come personally to take leave of Mr. Woodhouse. The next day Emma goes to meet Harri... | [
"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... |
930 | 158_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Knightley is happy to find that Emma has been a worthy hostess for Jane Fairfax. When Emma tells him about Jane's reserved nature, Knightley differs in his opinion. As they talk about the young woman, she appears in person with Miss Bates. They have come to Hartfield to thank Emma and Mr. Woodhouse for some pork they h... | [
"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. | Knightley is happy to find that Emma has been a worthy hostess for Jane Fairfax. When Emma tells him about Jane's reserved nature, Knightley differs in his opinion. As they talk about the young woman, she appears in person with Miss Bates. They have come to Hartfield to thank Emma and Mr. Woodhouse for some pork they h... | [
"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. | When Emma calls for Harriet at the Abbey Farm, the excited girl tells Emma that she has visited with Martin's mother and two sisters. On the way home, Emma decides to stop at the Westons and is disappointed to find they are not home. As she turns to leave, the Westons arrive in their carriage. They inform Emma that Fra... | [
"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. | When Emma calls for Harriet at the Abbey Farm, the excited girl tells Emma that she has visited with Martin's mother and two sisters. On the way home, Emma decides to stop at the Westons and is disappointed to find they are not home. As she turns to leave, the Westons arrive in their carriage. They inform Emma that Fra... | [
"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. | On the third day after his arrival in Highbury, Frank Churchill goes to London for a haircut. The Westons tell Emma that suddenly at breakfast Frank sent for a carriage and said that he would return by dinnertime. It is obvious that the Westons do not approve of the trip to London, which interrupts Frank's stay with th... | [
"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. | On the third day after his arrival in Highbury, Frank Churchill goes to London for a haircut. The Westons tell Emma that suddenly at breakfast Frank sent for a carriage and said that he would return by dinnertime. It is obvious that the Westons do not approve of the trip to London, which interrupts Frank's stay with 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. | Though Emma is happy to have attended the Cole's party, she feels uneasy afterward for two reasons: she had indiscreetly betrayed her suspicions of Jane's feelings to Frank Churchill, and she had realized her inferiority to Jane in playing and singing. At home, she sits down to practice vigorously on the piano for an h... | [
"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. | Though Emma is happy to have attended the Cole's party, she feels uneasy afterward for two reasons: she had indiscreetly betrayed her suspicions of Jane's feelings to Frank Churchill, and she had realized her inferiority to Jane in playing and singing. At home, she sits down to practice vigorously on the piano for an h... | [
"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. | One evening when Emma visits Randalls with her father, Frank Churchill suggests holding a ball at Randalls. When Frank prepares the list of ten dancing couples, Emma objects, for Randalls has no room large enough to allow ten couples to dance. The next morning Frank visits Emma and informs her that Mr. Weston has recom... | [
"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. | One evening when Emma visits Randalls with her father, Frank Churchill suggests holding a ball at Randalls. When Frank prepares the list of ten dancing couples, Emma objects, for Randalls has no room large enough to allow ten couples to dance. The next morning Frank visits Emma and informs her that Mr. Weston has recom... | [
"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. | With Frank gone, Emma begins to analyze her feelings. Although she is certain that she is in love with Frank, she is surprised that she is so cheerful in his absence. Moreover, whenever she imagines Frank proposing to her, she finds herself refusing his proposal, never experiencing any struggle between her love for Fra... | [
"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. | With Frank gone, Emma begins to analyze her feelings. Although she is certain that she is in love with Frank, she is surprised that she is so cheerful in his absence. Moreover, whenever she imagines Frank proposing to her, she finds herself refusing his proposal, never experiencing any struggle between her love for Fra... | [
"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. | After their next few meetings, Emma is totally convinced that Mrs. Elton is self-important, pretentious, ignorant, and ill bred. She has no beauty and can hardly judge people or situations. Mr. Elton, however, is quite proud of his wife. Mrs. Elton grows displeased with Emma for paying no attention to a number of her s... | [
"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. | After their next few meetings, Emma is totally convinced that Mrs. Elton is self-important, pretentious, ignorant, and ill bred. She has no beauty and can hardly judge people or situations. Mr. Elton, however, is quite proud of his wife. Mrs. Elton grows displeased with Emma for paying no attention to a number of her s... | [
"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.",
"... |
972 | 158_chapter_35_-_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After dinner, the women go to the drawing room, where Mrs. Elton avoids Emma and takes Jane aside to inquire about her chances of getting a job as a governess. Jane tells Mrs. Elton that she has not yet attempted to find one. The bold Mrs. Elton tells Jane that with her brother-in-law Suckling's recommendation, she can... | [
"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_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After dinner, the women go to the drawing room, where Mrs. Elton avoids Emma and takes Jane aside to inquire about her chances of getting a job as a governess. Jane tells Mrs. Elton that she has not yet attempted to find one. The bold Mrs. Elton tells Jane that with her brother-in-law Suckling's recommendation, she can... | [
"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. | The ball at the Crown Inn is about to take place. The Westons ask Emma to come to the inn before the ball starts in order to give her opinion about the arrangements. When she arrives, she is surprised to find that Mr. Weston's cousins have also been asked to come early and give their opinions about the arrangements; Em... | [
"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. | The ball at the Crown Inn is about to take place. The Westons ask Emma to come to the inn before the ball starts in order to give her opinion about the arrangements. When she arrives, she is surprised to find that Mr. Weston's cousins have also been asked to come early and give their opinions about the arrangements; Em... | [
"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. | A few days later, Harriet comes to Hartfield with a small momento box in her hand. She confesses to Emma her madness to have preserved objects like the plaster that she had given Elton when he had cut his finger with Emma's penknife. Another treasure that Harriet takes from her box is a small piece of pencil that Elton... | [
"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. | A few days later, Harriet comes to Hartfield with a small momento box in her hand. She confesses to Emma her madness to have preserved objects like the plaster that she had given Elton when he had cut his finger with Emma's penknife. Another treasure that Harriet takes from her box is a small piece of pencil that Elton... | [
"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. | Since Mrs. Weston is expecting a baby, Emma and Mr. Weston arrange a picnic on Box Hill to celebrate. Mr. Weston invites the Eltons to attend, although it displeases Emma. When the Elton's horse becomes lame, the picnic is postponed until the horse is better. Mrs. Elton expresses such a disappointment over the postpone... | [
"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. | Mr. Weston is the chief organizer of the Box Hill picnic. The women go to Box Hill in carriages, and the men ride on horses. Mrs. Weston remains with Mr. Woodhouse at Hartfield. After arriving, everyone separates into two groups: Miss Bates, Jane, and the Eltons are in one group; and Emma, Frank, Knightley, and Harriet... | [
"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. | Emma is miserable throughout the evening after her return from Box Hill. She decides to repent for her contemptible behavior towards Miss Bates by visiting her the next day. When she calls at the Bates house the next morning, there is a bit of confusion. Jane escapes into another room and appears to be ill. When Emma a... | [
"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 is miserable throughout the evening after her return from Box Hill. She decides to repent for her contemptible behavior towards Miss Bates by visiting her the next day. When she calls at the Bates house the next morning, there is a bit of confusion. Jane escapes into another room and appears to be ill. When Emma a... | [
"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. | Several days after Mrs. Churchill's death, Mr. Weston calls at Hartfield to ask Emma to come to Randalls, for his wife wants to see her. Upon arriving at Randalls, Emma finds Mrs. Weston much perturbed, for Frank has told her and her husband about his engagement to Jane Fairfax. He has been engaged since October, but h... | [
"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. | Several days after Mrs. Churchill's death, Mr. Weston calls at Hartfield to ask Emma to come to Randalls, for his wife wants to see her. Upon arriving at Randalls, Emma finds Mrs. Weston much perturbed, for Frank has told her and her husband about his engagement to Jane Fairfax. He has been engaged since October, but h... | [
"\"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. | Harriet's revelation about her love for Knightley makes Emma feel uncomfortable. Emma writes to her friend, requesting her not to come to Hartfield because she wants to avoid any confidential discussion with Harriet. Emma also worries about her own relationship with Knightley. She realizes how she has often opposed Kni... | [
"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. | Harriet's revelation about her love for Knightley makes Emma feel uncomfortable. Emma writes to her friend, requesting her not to come to Hartfield because she wants to avoid any confidential discussion with Harriet. Emma also worries about her own relationship with Knightley. She realizes how she has often opposed Kni... | [
"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. | When Emma enters her house, she is "in an exquisite flutter of happiness. " When tea is served, she makes all efforts to play the perfect hostess. Mr. Woodhouse, who does not know of the engagement of his daughter, speaks to Knightley in his usual manner and suspects nothing. At nighttime, the matured Emma reflects on ... | [
"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. | When Emma enters her house, she is "in an exquisite flutter of happiness. " When tea is served, she makes all efforts to play the perfect hostess. Mr. Woodhouse, who does not know of the engagement of his daughter, speaks to Knightley in his usual manner and suspects nothing. At nighttime, the matured Emma reflects on ... | [
"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. | When Harriet writes to Emma about having a toothache, Emma arranges with Isabella to invite Harriet to London, where she can consult a dentist. Emma lends her own carriage for the journey. Emma, feeling relieved that Harriet is out of town, visits Jane to congratulate her on her future marriage. Emma is happy to be rec... | [
"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. | When Harriet writes to Emma about having a toothache, Emma arranges with Isabella to invite Harriet to London, where she can consult a dentist. Emma lends her own carriage for the journey. Emma, feeling relieved that Harriet is out of town, visits Jane to congratulate her on her future marriage. Emma is happy to be rec... | [
"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. | Emma is tense because Isabella, her family, and Harriet are due to arrive at Hartfield. Knightley arrives and tells Emma that Harriet is to marry Robert Martin. He proposes that they should not discuss the matter since they differ in their views about the Harriet-Martin relationship. Emma tells Knightley that she has c... | [
"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... |
914 | 158_volume_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In chapter one, twenty-one year old Emma Woodhouse is introduced. She is the younger of two daughters, but as her mother died long ago and her sister has already been married, she has been the mistress of Hartfield for some time. Her father, Mr. Woodhouse, had hired Miss Taylor as Emma's governess, and the two became m... | [
"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. | Mr. Weston is a native of Highbury. He met and married Miss Churchill over the objections of her brother, and she died three years later after bearing them a son, Frank. Weston eventually gave Frank up to his wife's brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, to raise, as they had more money and could support him bet... | [
"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... |
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