Harriet . When she refuses his advances , he takes her reference to her imagined match between himself and Harriet as an insult , exclaiming , ``Miss Smith indeed . there are men who might not object to - Everybody has their level : but as for myself , I am not , I think , quite so much at a loss . I need not so an equal alliance , as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith (Austen , 132 . This exchange reinforces the fact that Emma has taken society 's...











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