“A single man of huge fortune; 4 or 5 thousand a yr. What a high quality factor for our ladies!” In “Satisfaction and Prejudice” Jane Austen didn’t have to elucidate to the Nineteenth-century reader what Mr Bingley’s “4 or 5 thousand a yr” meant, or why it excited Mrs Bennet. It was apparent. Mr Bingley was an inheritor. And the surest approach to get wealthy was not by working exhausting however by marrying the proper individual.