Quotation from: Emma

Written by: Jane Austen


"On the misery of what she had suffered, during the concealment
of so many months," continued Mrs. Weston, "she was energetic.
This was one of her expressions. `I will not say, that since I
entered into the engagement I have not had some happy moments; but I
can say, that I have never known the blessing of one tranquil hour:'--
and the quivering lip, Emma, which uttered it, was an attestation
that I felt at my heart."


"Poor girl!" said Emma. "She thinks herself wrong, then, for having
consented to a private engagement?"

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