about Mr Weston and Coles, but the quotes are the details given to the reader about their background. Not the basis of Emma's opinion.

I cannot imagine that Emma tells herself, "after a generation (or a couple if I'm still unrelenting) Coles will be as respectable as Mr Weston is now." And that, their trade at present is lower than what Mr Weston was doing before buying Randall, and what his brothers still do, even if their trade has made them the second richest, (more than Mr Weston) and if they wished they could buy property bigger than Randalls..

For Emma, class is what she thinks regarding the Knightleys and Donwell when she's roaming the grounds on the strawberry picking day.

I am convinced Emma just goes along with her whims and fancies.

In reality, in spite of his family's rise, Mr Weston is considered low by the Churchills - and his brothers are still in trade.

>Darcy was given good principles (but also spoiled) by his parents,

Still it was dissimilar to Emma's in every way;
His parents,
_allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing
-to care for none beyond my own family circle,
-to think meanly of all the rest of the world,