Quotation from: Emma

Written by: Jane Austen


This was obliged to be repeated before it could be believed;
and Mr. Knightley actually looked red with surprize and displeasure,
as he stood up, in tall indignation, and said,


"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."

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