Status Updates From Longbourn

“How did it all start, property and wealth and beauty like that? Who staked out a fence, strung out lines and said, This is my land and nobody else’s; these fields are mine, these woods are mine; this water is mine; and all the fish that swim in the water are mine… because there was, there must’ve been a time before, when the fish swim and the foul flew and were not anybody’s at all.”

“Mrs. Bennett was not one to tiptoe around the edges of disaster, with one eye to the abyss and another to her own comportment: she plunged headlong in, and as she fell, took pains to enumerate the discomforts and inconveniences of the fall.“