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Well, Miss Woodhouse, is he like what you expected?
What do you think of him? Do you think him so very plain?
He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain
but that is nothing, compared with his entire want of gentility.
I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much
but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air.
I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility.
To be sure, he is not so genteel as real gentlemen.
I think, Harriet, since your acquaintance with us,
you have been repeatedly in the company of some, such very real gentlemen.
Certainly, he is not like Mr. Knightley. But Mr. Knightley is so very fine a man!
Mr. Knightley's air is so remarkably good, that it is not fair
to compare Mr. Martin with him. You must see the difference.
Oh yes!--there is a great difference.
But Mr. Weston is almost an old man.
Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty.
Which makes his good manners the more valuable.
The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important
it is that their manners should not be bad
There is no saying, indeed
He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer,
totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.
Will he, indeed? That will be very bad.
Mr. Elton's manners are superior to Mr. Knightley's or Mr. Weston's.
On the contrary, I think a young man might be very safely recommended to take Mr. Elton as a model....