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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Volume 1. Chapter 1.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in one of a wife.

However, little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood.

This truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families

that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

"'My dear Mr. Bennett,' said his lady to him one day,

"'have you heard that Netherfield Park is let it last?'

Mr. Bennett replied that he had not. But it is, returned she,

for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it. Mr. Bennett made no answer.

Do not you want to know who has taken it, cried his wife impatiently. You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.'

"'This was invitation enough.'

"'Why, my dear, you must know.

"'Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England,

"'that he came down on Monday in a cha chaise and four, to see the place,

"'and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately,

"'that he is to take possession before Michael Mass,

"'and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.

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