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Chapter One It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However litde known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding...

One High Banks Hall showed its sparsely-windowed back to beautiful woodland and the town of Allendale in the far distance, whilst its buttressed and emblazoned and manywindowed face looked out over formal gardens on to mountainous land, so austere and wild that even its short summer beauty brought...