Pride and Prejudice - Translation, Classics Library 016

Author: Austen
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: It is a universally acknowledged truth that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Such a man, on being settled in a new place, is considered by his neighbours and acquaintances as the proper object of their daughters' affections, though they know nothing of his temper or disposition. Having this truth so firmly established in their minds, they are always ready to consider him as the property of some one of their daughters. One day, Mrs. Bennet said to her husband, "My dear Mr. Bennet, Netherfield Park is let at last; have you heard of it?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "It is so," she said, "Mrs. Long just came down; she told me all about it." Mr. Bennet made no answer. "Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently. "You shall hear it then." This was sufficient encouragement to her. "Oh, my dear, you must know by this time that Mrs. Long says Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the North of England; that he came down on Monday in a four-poster, and was so much delighted with the place that he agreed to take it immediately..."