As no objection was made to the young people’s engagement with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins’s scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the pleasure of hearing, as they entered the drawing-room, that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle’s invitation, and was then in the house.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Is he married or single?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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