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 character or opinions. Having this truth so firmly established in their minds, they are all eager to see him properly provided for. One day, Mrs. Bennet said to her husband, "My dear Mr. Bennet, did you hear that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "It is so," she returned, "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." This was sufficient encouragement to her. "Oh, my dear, you must know that Mrs. Long says the person who has taken Netherfield is a young man of large fortune from the north of England; and 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."