Pride and Prejudice

that a single man in possession of a g

a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding familie

to him one day, "have you heard th

replied tha

r Mrs. Long has just been here

et made

w who has taken it?" cr

, and I have no obje

invitatio

at he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris i

is his

ngl

arried o

man of large fortune; four or five thousa

w can it af

w can you be so tiresome! You must know tha

design in s

y likely that he may fall in love with one of them, a

hem by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as

I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has fiv

an has not often much

go and see Mr. Bingley when h

n I engage for,

liam and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they vi

nd I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whi

others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so

he; "they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; bu

en in such a way? You take delight in vexing m

nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention

not know wha

ive to see many young men of four thous

twenty such should come, si

that when there are twen

to make his wife understand his character. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain