unexceptionable in every respect, and there will
be no foibles or weaknesses but with the wicked,
who will be completely depraved and infamous,
hardly a resemblance of humanity left in them.
Early in her career, in the progress of her first
removal, heroine must meet with the hero[327]--all
perfection, of course, and only prevented from
paying his addresses to her by some excess of
refinement. Wherever she goes somebody falls in
love with her, and she receives repeated offers of
marriage, which she always refers wholly to her
father, exceedingly angry that _he_[328] should
not be first applied to. Often carried away by the
anti-hero, but rescued either by her father or the
hero. Often reduced to support herself and her
father by her talents, and work for her bread;
continually cheated and defrauded of her hire;
worn down to a skeleton, and now and then starved
to death. At last, hunted out of civilised
society, denied the poor shelter of the humblest
cottage, they are compelled to retreat into
Kamschatka, where the poor father, quite worn
down, finding his end approaching, throws himself
on the ground, and, after four or five hours of
tender advice and parental admonition to his
miserable child, expires in a fine burst of
literary enthusiasm, intermingled with invectives
against holders of tithes. Heroine inconsolable
for some time, but afterwards crawls back towards
her former country, having at least twenty narrow
escapes of falling into the hands of anti-hero;
and at last, in the very nick of time, turning a
corner to avoid him, runs into the arms of the
hero himself, who, having just shaken off the
scruples which fettered him before, was at the
very moment setting off in pursuit of her. The
tenderest and completest _eclaircissement_ takes
place, and they are happily united. Throughout the
whole work heroine to be in the most elegant
society,[329] and living in high style. The name
of the work not to be _Emma_,[330] but of same
sort as _Sense and Sensibility_ and _Pride and
Prejudice_.[331]