Das waren vergebliche Versuche, eine große Leidenschaft zu entfachen. Im übrigen war Emma unfähig, etwas zu verstehen, was sie nicht an sich selber erlebte, oder an etwas zu glauben, was nicht offen zutage lag.
When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms, she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles's passion was nothing very exorbitant.