New Neighbours at Netherfield

Arwy Official

Mrs. Bennet learned that Netherfield Park had been let before the news had settled properly into the neighborhood, and certainly before anyone else had enjoyed it as thoroughly. A young man of large fortune, four or five thousand a year, had taken the house. To Mrs. Bennet this was not merely a fact about property. It was an event arranged by Providence for the benefit of her five unmarried daughters. Mr. Bennet rece…