id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text 16354,"","Reading Joe Bray's The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (2003), p. 22.","",2005-03-25 00:00:00 UTC,2011-06-09,6178,Free indirect discourse,"Volume III, Chapter xi",2011-06-09 20:16:54 UTC,"""It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!""","Emma's eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes. A few minutes were sufficient for making her acquainted with her own heart. A mind like her's, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress. She touched--she admitted--she acknowledged the whole truth. Why was it so much worse that Harriet should be in love with Mr Knightley, that with Frank Churchill? Why was the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet's having some hope of return? It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!
(III.xi, p. 263)"