surpass your expectations?

I am sure we do.(30)

I found an online version of the cablegate Haiku-finder and ran the text of Emma through it. It has yielded a wealth of inadvertent Haiku (I was expecting only one or two).

I can't claim authorship, of course, but love this one about Mrs Elton from this weeks reading:

And now, Miss Woodhouse,
I do not think I shall mind
seeing them again.(32)

Also from this weeks reading (with Mrs Elton-like solecisms):

"Can the old lady?"...
"The old lady! No, the young
lady, to be sure."(29)

I am sure we do.
I am sure you did not much
expect to like us.(30)

Woodhouse, I wish you
had heard his gallant speeches
to me at dinner.(35)

Churchill does every
thing that any other fine
lady ever did.(36)