Have You Heard That Netherfield Park Is Let At Last?

This morning, Anonymous commented...

Jeffrey Moss has such a pleasing manner, and manners. "... but I also visited Red Hook," he says, as if tacitly apologizing for straying across the county border.

No need to apologize, my dear Mr. Moss, we instantly forgive you - after all you came right back to us, to Ghent.

Oh my. Jane Austen would look with favor upon this gentleman, I'm sure. Might he be, by chance, a single man in possession of a good fortune?

However little 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 families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Or sons. Or pets.