![]() ![]() ![]() 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 chaise and four (5) to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. "You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it." "Do not you want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it." Bennet," said his lady (2) to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" (3) 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. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (Note: In the printed book, annotations appear on facing pages here in the excerpt they can be found as footnotes at the end of the excerpt.) ![]()
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