Austen Said:

Marianne's preserver,

the most beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and agreeable girls they had ever beheld, and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted. —

her joy on her sister's having been so lucky as to make a conquest of a very smart beau since she came to Barton.

they had never been so happy in their lives as this intelligence made them.

the inconstancy of beaux

Mr. Perry had been to Mrs. Goddard's to attend a sick child, and Miss Nash had seen him, and he had told Miss Nash, that

"that she did not pretend to understand what his business might be, but she only knew that any woman whom Mr. Elton could prefer, she should think the luckiest woman in the world; for, beyond a doubt, Mr. Elton had not his equal for beauty or agreeableness."