Chapter1
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
1Have you heard that A Park is let at last?
B replied that he had not.
2Do not you want to know who has taken it?
you want to tell me ,and I have no objection to hearing it.
A is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England, that 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 B immediately, that he is to take possession before Michaelmas,and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.
" what is his name?"_A
"is he married or single?"
A single man of large fortune,four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls.
How so? How can it affect them?
How can you be so tiresome! you must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.
Is that his design in settling here?
" Design! nonsense, How can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes."
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