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　　Harriet bore the intelligence very well——blaming nobody—— and in every thing testifying such an ingenuousness of disposition and lowly opinion of herself, as must appear with particular advantage at that moment to her friend.

　　Emma was in the humour to value simplicity and modesty to the utmost; and all that was amiable, all that ought to be attaching, seemed on Harriet's side, not her own. Harriet did not consider herself as having any thing to complain of. The affection of such a man as Mr. Elton would have been too great a distinction.—— She never could have deserved him——and nobody but so partial and kind a friend as Miss Woodhouse would have thought it possible.

　　Her tears fell abundantly——but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—— and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding——really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two——and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.

　　It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life. Her second duty now, inferior only to her father's claims, was to promote Harriet's comfort, and endeavour to prove her own affection in some better method than by match-making. She got her to Hartfield, and shewed her the most unvarying kindness, striving to occupy and amuse her, and by books and conversation, to drive Mr. Elton from her thoughts.

　　If Mr. Elton, on his return, made his own indifference as evident and indubitable as she could not doubt he would anxiously do, she could not imagine Harriet's persisting to place her happiness in the sight or the recollection of him.

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