Pride and Prejudice, Part 1
The Sleepy Bookshelf
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Miss Bennet's First Choice
Miss Bennet was established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorised by such commendation to think of her as he chose. Within a short walk of long-born lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. So William Lucas had been formally in trade in Meraton, where he had made a tolerable fortune. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him a distaste to his business, and to his residents in a small market town. His presentation at St. James's had made him courteous. And unshackled by business, he could occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
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