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Pride and Prejudice | 13. The Colonel's Words

Pride and Prejudice

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Younger Sons Can Not Marry Where They Like Unless Where They Want

I do not know anybody who seems to more enjoy the power of doing what he likes than mister darcy. It is only that he has a better means of having it than many others, because he is rich and many others are poor. Younger sons cannot marry where they like unless where they like women of fortune,. which i think they very often. Our habits make us too dependent. Is this thought elizabeth meant for me? And she coloured at the idea, but recover in herself, and pray, what is the usual price of an earl's younger son?

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