"Pride and Prejudice"
by Jane Austen

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     "If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy," cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day."

     "Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought," said Mrs. Bennet; "and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly."

     The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.

  		 
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