Due to my ongoing serialisation of Pride and Prejudice in my status field on Facebook, certain truths have been drawn to my attention. The first opening two paragraphs while perhaps no longer true due to the breakdown of the typical neighbourhood, they remain firmly true of another institution. I (mis-)quote:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.1
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may
be on his first entering a church, this truth is so well
fixed in the minds of the church family, that he is considered
the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Hundreds of years on and still relevant is certainly the sign of a good book.
1 For obvious reasons, when it came to this sentence (which being the first sentence of the book was pretty much immediately) I only left it as my status for three minutes.
Alas, mother dear, you are my mother and this is my website, therefore on two counts can I safely ignore all such questions.
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So who considers you their property eh? But perhaps you don't have enough of a fortune?