Chapter 29Mr. Mitchell's property consisted almost entirely of a fortune of two thousand per year, which unfortunately resulted for his daughters, in the absence of male heirs, on a distant relative; and her mother's fortune, although plentiful for her life situation, could not compensate for the lack of his. Her father had been a lawyer in Meryton and had left her four thousand pounds.
She had a sister who was married to a Mr. Phillips who had been her father's employee and succeeded him in the business, and a brother who settled in London in a respectable industry.
The village of Longbourn was just a mile from Meryton; an extremely convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually lured there three or four times a week to pay their dues to their aunt and at a hat maker shop on
