If people _will_ marry, they should choose the persons least likely to interfere with them.

Emily will never interfere with you.

She cares a great deal more about your pleasure than her own.
And as to that, she's so much like a big, healthy, good child that she would find pleasure wheresoever you dropped her." This was true, yet the healthy, childish creature had, in deep privacy, cried a little, and was pathetically glad to feel that the Osborns were to be near her, and that she would have Hester to think of and take care of during the summer.
It was pathetic that she should cherish an affection so ingenuous for the Osborns, for one of them at least had no patience with her.

To Captain Osborn her existence and presence in the near neighbourhood were offences.

He told himself that she was of the particular type of woman he most disliked.