Pride and Prejudice (Translation: Classics Library) 016

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Features: It is a universally acknowledged truth that there must be a wife for every single man of property. Such a man, whenever he moves to a new place, is looked upon by his neighbors and acquaintances as the proper property of one of them, though they know nothing of his temper or disposition, or of his views in life. As this truth is so well established, they all assume that he is the very man who was designed by Providence for the daughter of one of them. One day, Mrs. Bennet said to her husband, "My dear Mr. Bennet, I am told that Netherfield Park is let at last. Have you heard of it?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "It is so," she returned, "for Mrs. Long just came down, and she told me all about it." Mr. Bennet made no answer. "Do you not want to know who has taken it?" she cried impatiently. "You shall hear it then, if you choose." This was sufficient encouragement to her. "Oh, my dear," she said, "you must know that Mrs. Long says the person who has taken Netherfield is a young man of great fortune, from the north of England; and that he came down on Monday in a four-poster, to see the place, and was so much delighted with it..."