∗poverty and neglect weighed against propriety's careful calculations

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as…

Such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces.

There was, at least, nothing to disgust her relations.

Her voice was sweet, and when she spoke her countenance was pretty.

∗Austen's measured prose anatomizes social calculation and moral consequence through marriage plots spanning class and family.

Three sisters navigate marriage, fortune, and duty in Regency England.