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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Austen, Jane

Austen, Jane
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Pride And Prejudice: Chapters 1 - 13

Chapter I

"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 neighborhood, 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."

Mrs. Bennet illustrates these principles by eagerly questioning her
husband about the "young man of large fortune from the north of ...

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