family expectations

Did you see it?” Bingley replied that he did, and made his congratulations. “It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter well married,” continued her mother; “but at the same time, Mr.

It was the favourite wish of _his_ mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be accomplished, is their marriage to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of n...