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1) "And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me, said Emma, and a very considerable one--that I made the match myself. I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said Mr. Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for anything (9). Emma says this to Mr. Knightley and her father about the marriage of Miss Taylor and Mr. Weston. This quote gives the reader a hint of Emma's character, and a glimpse of the major marriage and matchmaking themes of the novel
There's one quote I like because it sums up most of the plot, as well as the scene in which Mr Knightley seeks to comfort Emma (because Frank Churchill is getting married and Knightley thinks Emma is in love with Frank ) only to find out she actually loves him (Knightley) and is in no need of comfort:
"He had found her agitated and low - Frank Churchill was a villain. He heard her declare that she had never loved him - Frank Churchill's character was not desperate. She was his own Emma, by hand and word, when they returned into the house, and if he could have thought of Frank Churchill then, he might have deemed him a very good sort of fellow." (at the very end of chapter 49)
And another one that sums up the elegant, yet slightly ironic style Jane Austen writes in:
"What did she (ie Emma) say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does." (that's two pages before the end of chapter 49, p 380 in my Penguin edition)
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