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Mrs.
Bates
,
the
widow
of
a
former
vicar
of
Highbury
,
was
a
very
old
lady
,
almost
past
every
thing
but
tea
and
quadrille
.
She
lived
with
her
single
daughter
in
a
very
small
way
,
and
was
considered
with
all
the
regard
and
respect
which
a
harmless
old
lady
,
under
such
untoward
circumstances
,
can
excite
.
Her
daughter
enjoyed
a
most
uncommon
degree
of
popularity
for
a
woman
neither
young
,
handsome
,
rich
,
nor
married
.
Miss
Bates
stood
in
the
very
worst
predicament
in
the
world
for
having
much
of
the
public
favour
;
and
she
had
no
intellectual
superiority
to
make
atonement
to
herself
,
or
frighten
those
who
might
hate
her
into
outward
respect
.
She
had
never
boasted
either
beauty
or
cleverness
.
Her
youth
had
passed
without
distinction
,
and
her
middle
of
life
was
devoted
to
the
care
of
a
failing
mother
,
and
the
endeavour
to
make
a
small
income
go
as
far
as
possible
.
And
yet
she
was
a
happy
woman
,
and
a
woman
whom
no
one
named
without
good-will
.
It
was
her
own
universal
good-will
and
contented
temper
which
worked
such
wonders
.
She
loved
every
body
,
was
interested
in
every
body
's
happiness
,
quicksighted
to
every
body
's
merits
;
thought
herself
a
most
fortunate
creature
,
and
surrounded
with
blessings
in
such
an
excellent
mother
,
and
so
many
good
neighbours
and
friends
,
and
a
home
that
wanted
for
nothing
.
The
simplicity
and
cheerfulness
of
her
nature
,
her
contented
and
grateful
spirit
,
were
a
recommendation
to
every
body
,
and
a
mine
of
felicity
to
herself
.
She
was
a
great
talker
upon
little
matters
,
which
exactly
suited
Mr.
Woodhouse
,
full
of
trivial
communications
and
harmless
gossip
.
Mrs.
Goddard
was
the
mistress
of
a
School
--
not
of
a
seminary
,
or
an
establishment
,
or
any
thing
which
professed
,
in
long
sentences
of
refined
nonsense
,
to
combine
liberal
acquirements
with
elegant
morality
,
upon
new
principles
and
new
systems
--
and
where
young
ladies
for
enormous
pay
might
be
screwed
out
of
health
and
into
vanity
--
but
a
real
,
honest
,
old-fashioned
Boarding-school
,
where
a
reasonable
quantity
of
accomplishments
were
sold
at
a
reasonable
price
,
and
where
girls
might
be
sent
to
be
out
of
the
way
,
and
scramble
themselves
into
a
little
education
,
without
any
danger
of
coming
back
prodigies
.
Mrs.
Goddard
's
school
was
in
high
repute
--
and
very
deservedly
;
for
Highbury
was
reckoned
a
particularly
healthy
spot
:
she
had
an
ample
house
and
garden
,
gave
the
children
plenty
of
wholesome
food
,
let
them
run
about
a
great
deal
in
the
summer
,
and
in
winter
dressed
their
chilblains
with
her
own
hands
.
It
was
no
wonder
that
a
train
of
twenty
young
couple
now
walked
after
her
to
church
.
She
was
a
plain
,
motherly
kind
of
woman
,
who
had
worked
hard
in
her
youth
,
and
now
thought
herself
entitled
to
the
occasional
holiday
of
a
tea-visit
;
and
having
formerly
owed
much
to
Mr.
Woodhouse
's
kindness
,
felt
his
particular
claim
on
her
to
leave
her
neat
parlour
,
hung
round
with
fancy-work
,
whenever
she
could
,
and
win
or
lose
a
few
sixpences
by
his
fireside
.
These
were
the
ladies
whom
Emma
found
herself
very
frequently
able
to
collect
;
and
happy
was
she
,
for
her
father
's
sake
,
in
the
power
;
though
,
as
far
as
she
was
herself
concerned
,
it
was
no
remedy
for
the
absence
of
Mrs.
Weston
.
She
was
delighted
to
see
her
father
look
comfortable
,
and
very
much
pleased
with
herself
for
contriving
things
so
well
;
but
the
quiet
prosings
of
three
such
women
made
her
feel
that
every
evening
so
spent
was
indeed
one
of
the
long
evenings
she
had
fearfully
anticipated
.
As
she
sat
one
morning
,
looking
forward
to
exactly
such
a
close
of
the
present
day
,
a
note
was
brought
from
Mrs.
Goddard
,
requesting
,
in
most
respectful
terms
,
to
be
allowed
to
bring
Miss
Smith
with
her
;
a
most
welcome
request
:
for
Miss
Smith
was
a
girl
of
seventeen
,
whom
Emma
knew
very
well
by
sight
,
and
had
long
felt
an
interest
in
,
on
account
of
her
beauty
.
A
very
gracious
invitation
was
returned
,
and
the
evening
no
longer
dreaded
by
the
fair
mistress
of
the
mansion
.
Harriet
Smith
was
the
natural
daughter
of
somebody
.
Somebody
had
placed
her
,
several
years
back
,
at
Mrs.
Goddard
's
school
,
and
somebody
had
lately
raised
her
from
the
condition
of
scholar
to
that
of
parlour-boarder
.
This
was
all
that
was
generally
known
of
her
history
.
She
had
no
visible
friends
but
what
had
been
acquired
at
Highbury
,
and
was
now
just
returned
from
a
long
visit
in
the
country
to
some
young
ladies
who
had
been
at
school
there
with
her
.
She
was
a
very
pretty
girl
,
and
her
beauty
happened
to
be
of
a
sort
which
Emma
particularly
admired
.
She
was
short
,
plump
,
and
fair
,
with
a
fine
bloom
,
blue
eyes
,
light
hair
,
regular
features
,
and
a
look
of
great
sweetness
,
and
,
before
the
end
of
the
evening
,
Emma
was
as
much
pleased
with
her
manners
as
her
person
,
and
quite
determined
to
continue
the
acquaintance
.
She
was
not
struck
by
any
thing
remarkably
clever
in
Miss
Smith
's
conversation
,
but
she
found
her
altogether
very
engaging
--
not
inconveniently
shy
,
not
unwilling
to
talk
--
and
yet
so
far
from
pushing
,
shewing
so
proper
and
becoming
a
deference
,
seeming
so
pleasantly
grateful
for
being
admitted
to
Hartfield
,
and
so
artlessly
impressed
by
the
appearance
of
every
thing
in
so
superior
a
style
to
what
she
had
been
used
to
,
that
she
must
have
good
sense
,
and
deserve
encouragement
.
Encouragement
should
be
given
.
Those
soft
blue
eyes
,
and
all
those
natural
graces
,
should
not
be
wasted
on
the
inferior
society
of
Highbury
and
its
connexions
.
The
acquaintance
she
had
already
formed
were
unworthy
of
her
.
The
friends
from
whom
she
had
just
parted
,
though
very
good
sort
of
people
,
must
be
doing
her
harm
.
