Jane Austen
object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of accomplishment, and
her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins,
new carriages, and servants. She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a
proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income
might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.
"Haye Park might do," said she, "if the Gouldings could quit it--or the great house at
Stoke, if the drawing-room were larger; but Ashworth is too far off! I could not bear to have
her ten miles from me; and as for Pulvis Lodge, the attics are dreadful."
Her husband allowed her to talk on without interruption while the servants remained. But
when they had withdrawn, he said to her: "Mrs. Bennet, before you take any or all of these
houses for your son and daughter, let us come to a right understanding. Into one house in
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