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| 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 the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. |
| “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 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 Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.” |
| A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. |
| One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. |
| He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again. |
| “He is just what a young man ought to be,” said she, “sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! |
| “He is also handsome,” replied Elizabeth, “which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. |
| His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table—nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her. |
| Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. |
| What an agreeable man Sir William is, Mr. Bingley, is not he? |
