Chapter 77The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and feel unhappy. – It was really a miserable thing! – Such an overthrow of everything she had wished for! – Such a development of everything unwelcome! – Such a blow for Harriet! – that was the worst of all. Each part of it brought pain and humiliation in one way or another; but compared to the evil for Harriet, everything was easy; and she would have liked to have felt even more mistaken – even more mistaken – even more disgraced by misjudgement than she actually was if the effects of her mistakes had been limited to herself.
"If I hadn't persuaded Harriet to like the man, I could have endured anything. He might have doubled his arrogance towards me – but poor Harriet!"
How could she be so deceived! He as
