Jane Austen
Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by
such commendation to think of her as he chose.
Chapter 5
Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were
particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he
had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the
king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given
him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting
them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton,
denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own
importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the
world
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