... miseries of being a governess by getting married. Such was the lot of Jane Fairfax, or would have been, if she hadn't "attached" herself to Frank Churchill. Harriet Smith is a girl of no social position and she has no fortune. Nobody knows who her parents are or were. As a small child she was left at Mrs. Goddard's School for Girls and there she remained ... . Harriet is a pretty girl but she has no special talents and has relatively little intelligence. Mr. Knightly says this of Harriet: Let her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable and ... be satisfied with nothing less th...

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