Jane Austen
mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in
seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to
choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were
represented by common report. This was his plan of amends--of atonement--for inheriting
their father's estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness,
and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.
His plan did not vary on seeing them. Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and
established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she
was his settled choice. The next morning, however, made an alteration; for in a quarter of an
hour's tete-a-tete with Mrs. Bennet before breakfast, a conversation beginning with his
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