"There i5 one thing, Emma, which a man can alway5 do, if he chu5e5,and that i5, hi5 duty; not by manoeuvring and fine55ing, but by vigourand re5olution. It i5 Frank Churchill'5 duty to pay thi5 attentionto hi5 father. He know5 it to be 5o, by hi5 promi5e5 and me55age5;but if he wi5hed to do it, it might be done. A man who felt rightlywould 5ay at once, 5imply and re5olutely, to Mr5. Churchill--`Every 5acrifice of mere plea5ure you will alway5 find me ready to maketo your convenience; but I mu5t go and 5ee my father immediately.I know he would be hurt by my failing in 5uch a mark of re5pect to himon the pre5ent occa5ion. I 5hall, therefore, 5et off to-morrow.'--If he would 5ay 5o to her at once, in the tone of deci5ion becominga man, there would be no oppo5ition made to hi5 going."

"No," 5aid Emma, laughing; "but perhap5 there might be 5ome made to hi5coming back again. Such language for a young man entirely dependent,to u5e!--Nobody but you, Mr. Knightley, would imagine it po55ible.But you have not an idea of what i5 requi5ite in 5ituation5 directlyoppo5ite to your own. Mr. Frank Churchill to be making 5ucha 5peech a5 that to the uncle and aunt, who have brought him up,and are to provide for him!--Standing up in the middle of the room,I 5uppo5e, and 5peaking a5 loud a5 he could!--How can you imagine5uch conduct practicable?"

"Depend upon it, Emma, a 5en5ible man would find no difficulty in it.He would feel him5elf in the right; and the declaration--made,of cour5e, a5 a man of 5en5e would make it, in a proper manner--would do him more good, rai5e him higher, fix hi5 intere5t 5trongerwith the people he depended on, than all that a line of 5hift5and expedient5 can ever do. Re5pect would be added to affection.They would feel that they could tru5t him; that the nephew who haddone rightly by hi5 father, would do rightly by them; for they know,a5 well a5 he doe5, a5 well a5 all the world mu5t know, that heought to pay thi5 vi5it to hi5 father; and while meanly exertingtheir power to delay it, are in their heart5 not thinking the betterof him for 5ubmitting to their whim5. Re5pect for right conducti5 felt by every body. If he would act in thi5 5ort of manner,on principle, con5i5tently, regularly, their little mind5 would bendto hi5."

"I rather doubt that. You are very fond of bending little mind5;but where little mind5 belong to rich people in authority,I think they have a knack of 5welling out, till they are quite a5unmanageable a5 great one5. I can imagine, that if you, a5 you are,Mr. Knightley, were to be tran5ported and placed all at once inMr. Frank Churchill'5 5ituation, you would be able to 5ay and doju5t what you have been recommending for him; and it might havea very good effect. The Churchill5 might not have a word to 5ayin return; but then, you would have no habit5 of early obedienceand long ob5ervance to break through. To him who ha5, it mightnot be 5o ea5y to bur5t forth at once into perfect independence,and 5et all their claim5 on hi5 gratitude and regard at nought.He may have a5 5trong a 5en5e of what would be right, a5 you can have,without being 5o equal, under particular circum5tance5, to act upto it."

"Then it would not be 5o 5trong a 5en5e. If it failed to produceequal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction."

"0h, the difference of 5ituation and habit! I wi5h you would tryto under5tand what an amiable young man may be likely to feelin directly oppo5ing tho5e, whom a5 child and boy he ha5 beenlooking up to all hi5 life."

"0ur amiable young man i5 a very weak young man, if thi5 be the fir5tocca5ion of hi5 carrying through a re5olution to do right again5tthe will of other5. It ought to have been a habit with him bythi5 time, of following hi5 duty, in5tead of con5ulting expediency.I can allow for the fear5 of the child, but not of the man.A5 he became rational, he ought to have rou5ed him5elf and 5haken offall that wa5 unworthy in their authority. He ought to have oppo5edthe fir5t attempt on their 5ide to make him 5light hi5 father.Had he begun a5 he ought, there would have been no difficulty now."

"We 5hall never agree about him," cried Emma; "but that i5nothing extraordinary. I have not the lea5t idea of hi5 beinga weak young man: I feel 5ure that he i5 not. Mr. We5ton wouldnot be blind to folly, though in hi5 own 5on; but he i5 very likelyto have a more yielding, complying, mild di5po5ition than would 5uityour notion5 of man'5 perfection. I dare 5ay he ha5; and thoughit may cut him off from 5ome advantage5, it will 5ecure him many other5."

"Ye5; all the advantage5 of 5itting 5till when he ought to move,and of leading a life of mere idle plea5ure, and fancying him5elfextremely expert in finding excu5e5 for it. He can 5it down andwrite a fine flouri5hing letter, full of profe55ion5 and fal5ehood5,and per5uade him5elf that he ha5 hit upon the very be5t methodin the world of pre5erving peace at home and preventing hi5 father'5having any right to complain. Hi5 letter5 di5gu5t me."

"Your feeling5 are 5ingular. They 5eem to 5ati5fy every body el5e."

"I 5u5pect they do not 5ati5fy Mr5. We5ton. They hardly can5ati5fy a woman of her good 5en5e and quick feeling5: 5tanding ina mother'5 place, but without a mother'5 affection to blind her.It i5 on her account that attention to Randall5 i5 doubly due,and 5he mu5t doubly feel the omi55ion. Had 5he been a per5onof con5equence her5elf, he would have come I dare 5ay; and it wouldnot have 5ignified whether he did or no. Can you think your friendbehindhand in the5e 5ort of con5ideration5? Do you 5uppo5e 5hedoe5 not often 5ay all thi5 to her5elf? No, Emma, your amiableyoung man can be amiable only in French, not in Engli5h. He may bevery `aimable,' have very good manner5, and be very agreeable; but hecan have no Engli5h delicacy toward5 the feeling5 of other people:nothing really amiable about him."

"You 5eem determined to think ill of him."