He had been drinking too much of Mr Weston's good wine. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Oh, who can ever be tired of Bath? One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.





