Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.

It may have taken over a year, but the "prophecy" in Chapter 1 is finally completed.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.