Chapter 16
The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down
to think and be miserable.—It was a wretched business indeed!—Such
an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for!—Such a
development of every thing most unwelcome!—Such a blow for
Harriet!—that was the worst of all. Every part of it brought pain
and humiliation, of some sort or other; but, compared with the evil
to Harriet, all was light; and she would gladly have submitted to
feel yet more mistaken— more in error—more disgraced by
mis-judgment, than she actually was, could the effects of her
blunders have been confined to herself.
"If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could
have borne any thing. He might have doubled his presumption to me—
but poor Harriet!"
How she could have b
