03-05-2012, 01:23 PM
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
He will hold her, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. We must not be too positive yet, said I. If we find that this same quality when it exists in the individual can equally be identified with justice then we can at once give our assent; there will be no more to be said; otherwise we shall have to look further. He is reading for the Bar, and while he would be the first to admit that he hasn't yet got a complete toe-hold on the Law of Great Britain he had a sort of notion that oiling into a perfect stranger's semi-detached villa on the pretext of pruning the parrot was a tort or misdemeanour, if not actual barratry or soccage in fief or something like that.
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