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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: made a lucky guess; and that is all that can be said. And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess??I pity you.?I thought you cleverer?for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. And as to my poor word ' success,' which you quarrel with, I do not know that I am so entirely without any claim to it You have drawn two pretty pictures?but I think there may be a third?a something between the do-nothing and the do-all. If I had not promoted Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all. I think you must know Hartneld enough to comprehend that. A straight-forward, open-hearted man, like Weston, and a rational unaffected woman, like Miss Taylor, may bebe safely left to manage their own concerns. You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference. Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others; rejoined Mr. Woodhouse, understanding but in part. But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches, they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously. Only one more, papa; only for Mr. Elton. Poor Mr. Elton! You like Mr. Elton, papa,?I must look about for a wife for him. There i nobody in Highbury who deserves him ?and he has been here a whole year, and has fitted up his house so comfortably that it would be a shame to have him single any longer?and I thought when he was joining their hands today, he looked so very much as if he would like to have the same kind office done for him! I think very '.; well well of Mr. Elton, and this is the only vay I have of doing him a service. Mr. Elton is a very pretty young man to be sure, and a...

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