“ but when a young man, be who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him. ”
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811). copy citation
Author | Jane Austen |
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Source | Sense and Sensibility |
Topic | marriage love |
Date | 1811 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21839/21839-h/21839-h.htm |
Context
“Fifty thousand pounds! and by all accounts, it won't come before it's wanted; for they say he is all to pieces. No wonder! dashing about with his curricle and hunters! Well, it don't signify talking; but when a young man, be who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him. Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once? I warrant you, Miss Marianne would have been ready to wait till matters came round.”
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