May 13, 2008 · 1:42 pm

Loveliness itself

[Mrs. Weston] “She is loveliness itself. Mr. Knightley, is not she?”

“I have not a fault to find with her person,” he replied. “I think her all you describe. I love to look at her; and I will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain. Considering how handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.”

Mrs. Weston and Mr. Knightley on Emma’s beauty and faults
Emma, volume 1, chapter 5

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One Response to Loveliness itself

  1. Baja Janeite
    May 13, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Have you seen this? http://www.beliefnet.com/gallery/spiritualjaneaustenplaces.html?pgIndex=10
    It is based on your book!
    Hope you are feeling much better- that the Lord gives you “grace for the place” as Pastor Erwin Lutzer likes to encourage!