“I have no doubt that he will thrive and be a very rich man in time-and his being illiterate and coarse need not disturb us.”
Emma’s backhanded compliment of Robert Martin, the farmer Harriet adores
Emma, volume 1, chapter 4
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Mr. Martin
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