Chapter 22Not far from Longbourn lived a family with whom the Mitchells were particularly familiar. Sir William Lucas had previously been in the trade of Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and had been knighted during his tenure as mayor through an address to the king. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had disgusted him in front of his shop and his residence in a small market town; and by leaving them both, he had moved with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, which from that time was called Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own meaning and, not tied up by business, be exclusively occupied with being bourgeois for the whole world. For although he was enthusiastic about his rank, it did not make him haughty; on the contrary,
