“ A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her. ”
Jane Austen, Emma (1815). copy citation
Author | Jane Austen |
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Source | Emma |
Topic | women body |
Date | 1815 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/158/158-h/158-h.htm |
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““Then she is a greater simpleton than I ever believed her. What is the foolish girl about?”
“Oh! to be sure,” cried Emma, “it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
“Nonsense! a man does not imagine any such thing. But what is the meaning of this? Harriet Smith refuse Robert Martin? madness, if it is so; but I hope you are mistaken.”
“I saw her answer!—nothing could be clearer.””
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